Tesfai Ghirmazion was the first Minister of Agriculture of

Eritrea Eritrea ( ; ti, ኤርትራ, Ertra, ; ar, إرتريا, ʾIritriyā), officially the State of Eritrea, is a country in the Horn of Africa region of Eastern Africa, with its capital and largest city at Asmara. It is bordered by Ethiopia ...

and moved in 1997 to the Ministry of Land, Water, and Environment as its first Minister."President quietly shuffles cabinet"
''Indian Ocean Newsletter'', 29 March 1997 (''Horn of Africa Monthly Review'', 21 February–28 April 1997).

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