Fetlework Gebregziabher ( ti, ፈትለወርቅ ገብረእግዚኣብሄር; ''nom de guerre'' ''Monjorino;'' born ), is an

Ethiopian Ethiopians are the native inhabitants of Ethiopia, as well as the global diaspora of Ethiopia. Ethiopians constitute several component ethnic groups, many of which are closely related to ethnic groups in neighboring Eritrea and other parts of ...

politician and current Vice President of the

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and deputy chair of

Tigray People's Liberation Front The Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF; ti, ህዝባዊ ወያነ ሓርነት ትግራይ, lit=Popular Struggle for the Freedom of Tigray), also called the Tigrayan People's Liberation Front, is a left-wing ethnic nationalist paramilitar ...

(TPLF). Fetlework was the Ethiopian

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from October 2018 to January 2020.

Early life

Fetlework joined the

(TPLF) in 1979. She obtained her Master's degree at the

London School of Economics , mottoeng = To understand the causes of things , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £240.8 million (2021) , budget = £391.1 millio ...

(LSE) in the early 2000s.

Politics

After joining the TPLF in her childhood and studying at the LSE against the wishes of the TPLF leaders, Fetlework was elected to the TPLF Central Committee in 2006 and in 2010. She was elected as a member of the TPLF Executive Committee in 2015 and appointed to other senior TPLF positions during 2015–2017. In November 2017, Fetlework was elected as deputy Chair of the TPLF, as the first woman to hold the position, and reelected in October 2018.

Minister

In Ethiopian prime minister

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 ...

's October 2018

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, Fetlework was appointed

. She was replaced by

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in January 2020. Fetlework stated that she had not received any negative performance evaluations from either Abiy or the Cabinet. She interpreted her replacement as being motivated by the TPLF's refusal to join the Prosperity Party.

References

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