"This is a great achievement." The Code of Conduct appears to answer concerns voiced by the opposition and the international community that Prime Minister Meles's Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front controls the electoral process.

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Some say he may leave his prime ministerial post but stay on to chair his ruling Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front.

ECONOMIST: Ethiopia's resilient prime minister

All this is the responsibility of Mr Meles's Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), which has run the show since 1991.

ECONOMIST: Anxious Ethiopia

The Afar Revolutionary Democratic Unity Front (ARDUF) said the deaths occurred when Ethiopian troops fired on a rebel unit which had kidnapped the visitors.

BBC: Ethiopia rebels blame troops for Afar tourist deaths