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Council Of Ministers Of Abiy Ahmed
The Council of Ministers of Abiy Ahmed is the cabinet of the government of Ethiopia during the premiership of Abiy Ahmed since early 2018. Cabinet reshuffles and resignations The Abiy cabinet of October 2018 was gender-balanced, with half the ministers being women, including several in senior security ministries, with Aisha Mohammed Mussa as Minister of Defense and Muferiat Kamil in the newly created Ministry of Peace, which was allocated responsibility for several security services. The number of ministers was reduced from 28 to 20. The other eight women ministers were Adanech Abebe, Dagmawit Moges, Ergoge Tesfaye Ergoge Tesfaye (, born 22 October 1978) is an Ethiopian politician who, , is the current Minister of Women and Social Affairs. She was previously the Ministry of Labour and Skills Development from October 2018 to 6 October 2021. Early life ..., Fetlework Gebregziabher, Fitsum Assefa, Hirut Kassaw, Hirut Woldemariam and Yalem Tsegaye Asfaw. In April 2019 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abiy Ahmed
Abiy Ahmed Ali ( om, Abiyi Ahmed Alii; am, አብይ አሕመድ ዐሊ; born 15 August 1976) is an Ethiopian politician who has been the 4th prime minister of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia since 2 April 2018. He won the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize for his work in ending the 20-year post-war territorial stalemate between Ethiopia and Eritrea. Abiy was the third chairman of the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) that governed Ethiopia for 28 years and the first Oromo in that position. Abiy is an elected member of the Ethiopian parliament, and was a member of the Oromo Democratic Party (ODP), one of the then four coalition parties of the EPRDF, until its rule ceased in 2019 and he formed his own party, the Prosperity Party. In June 2020, Abiy, in concert with the National Election Board of Ethiopia (NEBE), decided to postpone scheduled parliamentary elections due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This move prompted criticism, especially from the op ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adanech Abebe
Adanech Abebe ( om, Adaanach Abbabee) is an Ethiopian politician and attorney who is serving as the thirty-second mayor of Addis Ababa. She has been serving as a deputy mayor from 2020 until 2021. She previously was the Minister of Revenue and Customs Authority from 2018 to 2020, when she became the first female to assume the role of the Federal Attorney General of Ethiopia. She is the first woman to hold the mayorship since it was created in 1910. Early life Born in Arsi Province, Adanech has little familial disclosure. According to her Education back ground documents. But it was widely known Abebe Deso is her father. She is the only daughter of six children. Abebe's prominence in the province led to establishing Ireecha Primary School in 1977, where Adanech was received as the first female student. Adanech independently taught herself for the sake of her father based on child marriage. Inspired by her deeds, Abebe progressively admitted the violence against women and criticize ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lake Ayalew
Lake Ayalew (Amharic: ላቀ አያሌው) is an Ethiopian politician who is Minister of Revenue since 2021. He was acting President of Amhara Region from 23 June 2019 after the assassination of then-President Ambachew Mekonnen. He remained acting governor of Amhara Region throughout 2019. Lake was a member of Central Committee of the Amhara Democratic Party The Amhara Democratic Party (ADP) ( am, አማራ ዴሞክራሲያዊ ፓርቲ), originally known as Amhara National Democratic Movement (ANDM), was a political party in Ethiopia. The party was one of four members of the Ethiopian People's R ... in October 2018. References Ethiopian government officials Presidents of Amhara Region 21st-century Ethiopian politicians Ethiopian politicians Year of birth missing (living people) Living people {{Ethiopia-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tigray People
Tigrayans ( ti, ተጋሩ) are a Semitic-speaking ethnic group indigenous to the Tigray Region of northern Ethiopia. They speak the Tigrinya language, an Afroasiatic language belonging to the Ethiopian Semitic branch. The daily life of Tigrayans is highly influenced by religious concepts. For example, the Christian Orthodox fasting periods are strictly observed, especially in Tigray; but also traditional local beliefs such as in spirits, are widespread. In Tigray the language of the church remains exclusively Ge’ez. Tigrayan society is marked by a strong ideal of communitarianism and, especially in the rural sphere, by egalitarian principles. This does not exclude an important role of gerontocratic rules and in some regions such as the wider Adwa area, formerly the prevalence of feudal lords, who, however, still had to respect the local land rights. History The majority of Tigrayans trace their origin to early Semitic-speaking peoples whose presence in the region dates b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Filsan Abdullahi
Filsan Abdullahi Ahmed (; ; born 1992), also called Filsan Abdi, is an Ethiopian activist and politician from the Somali Region. She is a founder of the ''Nabad'' project, a satellite television station for promoting communication and peace in Somali Region and between the Somali and Oromo communities. Filsan was appointed the federal Ethiopian Minister of Women, Children and Youth on 12 March 2020, becoming the youngest person in the Abiy Ahmed cabinet and the first Somali Ethiopian to be appointed to a federal government position. She resigned from the cabinet in September 2021. In December 2021, she stated to ''The Washington Post'' that she had resigned in relation to Abiy's handling of the Tigray War. Childhood and education Filsan Abdullahi Ahmed was born in 1991 or 1992 in Dire Dawa. Her parents are ethnic Somalis from Jigjiga, the capital of Somali Region in Ethiopia. Filsan's mother is a businesswoman and her father a petroleum engineer who worked most of his life i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lia Tadesse
Lia Tadesse Gebremedhin ( am, ሊያ ታደሰ ገብረመድኅን; born 1976) is an Ethiopian politician and physician serving as the current Minister of Health since March 2020. Prior to her appointment, Lia served as State Minister of Health from November 2018. She also served as an Executive Director at the University of Michigan's Center for International Reproductive Health Training (CIRHT) in Ann Arbor, Michigan, as a CEO and Vice Provost in St. Paul's Hospital Millennium Medical College (SPHMMC) in Addis Ababa and as a Project Director of USAID's Maternal and Child Survival Program (MCSP) at Jhpiego-Ethiopia. Early life Lia was born and raised in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. She went to '' Miskaye Hizunan Medhanealem School'' for her elementary school studies and completed her secondary school at '' Etege Menen Secondary School'' with a great distinction, and joined Jimma University to study Medicine; she was among the four eligible female students to enroll. Lia earn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melaku Alebel
Melaku is an Ethiopian name. Notable people with the name include: Given name *Melaku Belay, leader of the Ethiopian music group Fendika *Melaku Worede (born 1936), Ethiopian agronomist Surname * LoLa Monroe (born Fershgenet Melaku in 1986), American rapper, model and actress of Ethiopian descent *Tsega Melaku Tsega Melaku ( he, צֶגָה מֶלָקוּ; born 1968) is an Israeli author, journalist, and community activist. She is the former director of Kol Yisrael's Reshet Aleph ("Network A") radio station. Before her disqualification from running in I ... (born 1968), Israeli author, journalist, and community activist {{given name, type=both Ethiopian given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gedu Andargachew
Gedu Andargachew () is an Ethiopian politician who currently is the National Security Affairs Advisor to the prime minister of Ethiopia since 4 November 2020. He served as president of the Amhara Region from 2013 to 2019 and served as deputy president of the region and head of the agriculture bureau. He also served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs from April 2019 to November 2020. Gedu was first selected in 2013 to replace Ayalew Gobeze, and was successively reelected by the regional legislature in 2015 and 2018. He resigned on 8 March 2019 for he reasons that were unclear, though in his farewell address he warned of rising inter-ethnic tensions with the Tigray Region. He was replaced by Ambachew Mekonnen Ambachew Mekonnen ( gez, አምባቸው መኮንን; – 22 June 2019) was an Ethiopian politician and economist who served as the president of the Amhara Region of Ethiopia from March to June 2019, when he was assassinated in a Amhara Region .... References Living ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hirut Woldemariam
Hirut Woldemariam (; born 24 October 1975) is an Ethiopian writer, teacher, politician and former minister of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education (Ethiopia), Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs. She was the first female Vice president of Addis Ababa University. Life and career Hirut Woldemariam was born in Debre Markos, Gojjam, Ethiopia from her father Woldemariam Teketel, from Kambata, and her mother Brehane Mekonen, from Debre Marqos. She has received both her Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts in Linguistics from Addis Ababa University and her Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics from the University of Cologne, Institute of African Studies. She is a professor in the Department of Linguistics and Philology, College of Humanities, Journalism and Communication of the Addis Ababa University. Hirut served in different position of vice presidency in Addis Ababa University namely: Vice president for Institutional Development (April 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hirut Kassaw
Hirut Kassaw (, born 5 February 1976) is an Ethiopian politician who has served as Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Ethiopia from October 2018 until 6 October 2021. Before being Minister, Hirut served as assistant professor at Bahir Dar University. The ministry that she leads has received an award from the Pacific Travel Writers Association (PATWA). She also won the "Best Tourism Minister" award. Early life Hirut was born and raised in Kefoy, South Gondar, Ethiopia. She was born in the countryside, but as a child she had the opportunity to move to the city because her father was a civil servant. She completed her primary and secondary education in Debre Tabor. After graduating from high school, she served as a teacher in different parts of Ethiopia, and when she was teaching in Sebeta she joined the Kotebe Teachers Education College, Addis Abeba, and earned a Bachelor of Arts in Ethiopian Language and Literature. She also has a Master's degree from Bahir Dar University ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fitsum Assefa
Fitsum Assefa Adela (, born 12 May 1979) is an Ethiopian teacher and politician who leads the FDRE Minister of Planning and Development since 16 October 2018. Fitsum also has been a member of Commercial Bank of Ethiopia's Board of directors since 24 December 2018. She earned her undergraduate degree from Addis Abeba University in Accounting and Master of Arts in Development Studies from the same university. She completed her Doctor of Philosophy in Agricultural Economics at the University of Giessen, Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ..., and taught more than a decade in the University of Hawassa. Fitsum is married and has 3 children. References 1979 births Living people Ethiopian politicians Ministers for Planning and Development Commission 21s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
