Adem Farah (Amharic:አዳምፋራህ), [1] also transliterated as Adam Farah and Aden Farah, [2] [3] is an Ethiopian politician who was Speaker of the House of Federation (HoF),replacing Keria Ibrahim from 2020 to 2021 and Somali Region Vice President from 2018 to 2020. He is currently serving as Deputy Chairman of the Prosperity Party since March 2022. [4] In April 2024 Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed appointed Farah as the head of the Democratic System Building Center with the rank of Deputy Prime Minister. [5]
Farah worked as head of the Construction Bureau at Dire Dawa City Administration until the Somali Region Council appointed him as Deputy President of the Region on 8 September 2018. Guled Awo,Communication Bureau head of the region told The Reporter that "The new officials were appointed after a consensus by both the regional council and the community leaders.”His appointment was held just after the arrest of former president of the Region Abdi Illey over alleged crime. [6]
On 10 June 2020,Farah was elected as Speaker of House of Federation (HoF),replacing Keria Ibrahim,who had served that position for two years until her resignation on 8 June. [7] [8] On 12 March 2022,the Prosperity Party First Congress appointed him as Deputy Chairperson of the party,along with Demeke Mekonnen. Upon his selection Farah pledged "I want to serve diligently and ethically;in order for me to be Ethiopian and serve you all with impartiality,and loyalty,for time and situations not to take to here and there,pray for me.” [9] On 1 April 2024,Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed appointed Farah as the head of the Democratic System Building Center with the rank of Deputy Prime Minister. [10]
Demeke Mekonnen Hassen is an Ethiopian politician who was Deputy Prime Minister of Ethiopia from 2012 to 2024,Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2020 to 2024 and former vice-president of the Prosperity Party. He previously served as chairman of the Amhara Democratic Party (ADP) and deputy chair of the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) until the dissolution of the two in December 2019.
Abiy Ahmed Ali is an Ethiopian politician who is the current Prime Minister of Ethiopia since 2018 and the leader of the Prosperity Party since 2019. He was awarded the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize "for his efforts to achieve peace and international cooperation,and in particular for his decisive initiative to resolve the border conflict with neighbouring Eritrea". Abiy served as the third chairman of the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) that governed Ethiopia for 28 years and the first person of Oromo descent to hold that position. Abiy is a 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.
The following lists events in the year 2018 in Ethiopia.
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Tagesse Chafo is an Ethiopian politician and current Speaker of the House of Peoples Representatives since 2018. He was elected as speaker on 18 October 2018 succeeding Muferiat Kamil who became the Minister of Peace. He was re-elected as the Speaker of the House of Peoples' Representatives on 4 October 2021.
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The Prosperity Party is a ruling political party in Ethiopia that was established on 1 December 2019 as a successor to the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front by incumbent Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed.
Keria Ibrahim is an Ethiopian politician who was speaker of the House of Federation from 2018 until her resignation on 9 June 2020. She was the Tigray Region's head of civil service and chief administrator of the South Eastern zone. Keria is one of the nine Central Committee members of the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF),and the head of Women's Affair in the region.
Filsan Abdullahi Ahmed,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.
Abraham Belay is an Ethiopian politician serving as the Minister of Water,Irrigation and Electricity since 2024. Belay served as the Minister of Defense from 2021. An ethnic Tigrayan,he previously served as the Minister of Innovation and Technology,and as president of the Tigray Region Prosperity Party.
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