Muferihat Kamil Ahmed (
Amharic
Amharic ( or ; (Amharic: ), ', ) is an Ethiopian Semitic language, which is a subgrouping within the Semitic branch of the Afroasiatic languages. It is spoken as a first language by the Amharas, and also serves as a lingua franca for all oth ...
: ሙፈሪሃት ካሚል አሕመድ, ''mufärihat kamil ähmäd''; born 1976) 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 who is the current
Ministry of Labour and Skills Development in Ethiopia. She was the Speaker of the
House of People's Representatives
The House of Peoples' Representatives is the lower house of the Ethiopian Federal Parliamentary Assembly. Located in the capital Addis Ababa, the House has 547 members. All are elected in theory for five-year term in single-seat constituencies. ...
. Muferihat previously served as the first
Minister of Peace from October 2018 to 6 October 2021.
She was the Chair of the
SEPDM (Southern Ethiopian People's Democratic Movement), one of the four parties that make up the former ruling coalition in Ethiopia, the
EPRDF
The Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF; am, የኢትዮጵያ ሕዝቦች አብዮታዊ ዲሞክራሲያዊ ግንባር, translit=Ye’Ītiyop’iya Ḥizibochi Ābiyotawī Dīmokirasīyawī Ginibari) was an eth ...
.
Early life
Muferihat was born in
Jimma
Jimma () is the largest city in southwestern Oromia Region, Ethiopia. It is a special zone of the Oromia Region and is surrounded by Jimma Zone. It has a latitude and longitude of . Prior to the 2007 census, Jimma was reorganized administrativ ...
to ethnic
Silt’e parents, one of southern Ethiopian peoples. She is a Sunni Muslim. She attended
Haramaya University, obtaining her
BSc in Agriculture in 2000.
Political career
Muferihat was appointed Public Relations Advisor to the
Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples' Region (SNNPR) President in 2007. She was named as Minister of Women's Affairs of Ethiopia in 2008. She was named as
Speaker of the House of People's Representatives in April 2018, making her the first female to hold the post.
In October 2018, Muferihat was appointed
Minister of Peace, a powerful ministry overseeing agencies including the
National Intelligence and Security Service
The National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) () is an intelligence agency of the Ethiopian federal government tasked with gathering information of national interests. It does counter-terrorism in the country by informing the federal p ...
(NISS), the
Information Network Security Agency (INSA), and the
Federal Police Commission.
References
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Living people
Southern Ethiopian People's Democratic Movement politicians
1976 births
Speakers of the House of Peoples' Representatives (Ethiopia)
Government ministers of Ethiopia
Women government ministers of Ethiopia
Ethiopian Muslims
Female interior ministers
21st-century Ethiopian politicians
21st-century Ethiopian women politicians