Chancellor Angela Merkel met for talks with Prime Minister Meles Zenawi and President Girma Woldegirogise in Addis Abeba on Thursday (October 4) before she attended a children's project in the Ethiopian capital, accompanied by German Development Minister Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul. After sitting in a maths class and writing into the book of a small boy, Merkel told reporters that "we can only move ahead here step by step and when we discuss Africa." "We should not keep quiet about the things that haven't worked out yet," Merkel said. "At the same time, we should also mention that more and more children get the chance of an education. When you see with how much joy this is accepted here and when you listen to their worries that it might not continue this way, then it encourages us to help," the chancellor said. Ethiopia, sub-Saharan Africa's second most populous country, ranks 170 out of 177 on a U.N. development index. Once a darling of the West, former guerrilla leader Meles'...