Alemu Sime Feyisa (Amharic:አለሙስሜፈይሳ) is an Ethiopian politician who has been the Minister of Transport and Logistics since January 2023. Alemu was a deputy director of the Metals and Engineering Corporation (METEC) from 2019.
Alemu is currently a member of Prosperity Party and previously the Oromo Democratic Party (ODPO).
Alemu Sime was a member of Oromo Democratic Party (ODPO) where he served in secretariat role. On 26 April 2019,Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed appointed Alemu as deputy director of the Metals and Engineering Corporation (METEC). [1] After EPRDF coalition dissolved,Alemu joined the Prosperity Party in 2019. [2] In January 2023,he was elected as Minister of Transport and Logistics,succeeding Dagmawit Moges. [3]
The Tigray People's Liberation Front,also known as the Tigrayan People's Liberation Front,is a left-wing ethnic nationalist,paramilitary group,and the former ruling party of Ethiopia. It was classified as a terrorist organization by the Ethiopian government during the Tigray War until its removal from the list in 2023. In older and less formal texts and speech it is known as Woyane or Weyané.
The Oromo Democratic Party,formerly known as the Oromo People's Democratic Organization,was a political party in Ethiopia,and part of the alliance with the Amhara National Democratic Movement,the South Ethiopian Peoples' Democratic Front and the Tigrayan Peoples' Liberation Front that formed the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF). In the August 2005 Regional assembly elections,the party won 387 out of 537 seats in the Oromia,and 14 out of 36 seats in the Harari Region.
The Somali Democratic Party,formerly the Ethiopian Somali People's Democratic Party,was a political party in Ethiopia,created by the ruling Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) after refusing Somali demands for self-determination in 1993. The EPRDF created a surrogate party called the Ethiopian Somali Democratic League which was one of many satellite organisations existing throughout Ethiopia. The organisation was led by Ahmed Shide.
METEC is an Ethiopian arms and machinery industry founded in 2010. Being the state largest military industrial complex,it is responsible for the production of military equipment and civilian products. METEC works with foreign companies such as Alstom from France,and Spire Corporation from America.
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.
Events of 2019 in Ethiopia.
The 2021 Ethiopian general election to elect members of the House of Peoples' Representatives was held on 21 June 2021 and 30 September 2021. Regional elections were also held on those dates.
Shimelis Abdisa is an Ethiopian politician serving as the president of the Oromia Region since 18 April 2019. He is also Chief Staff of the Prime Minister since 2018.
Ahmed Shide is an Ethiopian-Somali politician who is serving as the Minister of Finance since October 2018. He was the Minister of Communication Affairs from April until Abiy Ahmed cabinet dissolved the ministry in October 2018.
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.
The Council of Ministers of Abiy Ahmed is the cabinet of the government of Ethiopia during the premiership of Abiy Ahmed since early 2018.
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.
Abiy Ahmed is currently the third serving Prime Minister of Ethiopia. In 2018,he became the first ever Oromo descent to assume the role of prime minister in the history of Ethiopia. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in his second year as a prime minister of Ethiopia in 2019 becoming the eighth African laureates to win the award for peace.
The 1995 Ethiopian Federal Constitution formalizes an ethnic federalism law aimed at undermining long-standing ethnic imperial rule,reducing ethnic tensions,promoting regional autonomy,and upholding unqualified rights to self-determination and secession in a state with more than 80 different ethnic groups. But the constitution is divisive,both among Ethiopian nationalists who believe it undermines centralized authority and fuels interethnic conflict,and among ethnic federalists who fear that the development of its vague components could lead to authoritarian centralization or even the maintenance of minority ethnic hegemony. Parliamentary elections since 1995 have taken place every five years since enactment. All but one of these have resulted in government by members of the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) political coalition,under three prime ministers. The EPRDF was under the effective control of the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF),which represents a small ethnic minority. In 2019 the EPRDF,under Abiy,was dissolved and he inaugurated the pan-ethnic Prosperity Party which won the 2021 Ethiopian Election,returning him as prime minister. But both political entities were different kinds of responses to the ongoing tension between constitutional ethnic federalism and the Ethiopian state's authority. Over the same period,and all administrations,a range of major conflicts with ethnic roots have occurred or continued,and the press and availability of information have been controlled. There has also been dramatic economic growth and liberalization,which has itself been attributed to,and used to justify,authoritarian state policy.
In the face of widespread protests against the government,Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn resigned from office on 15 February 2018,becoming the first politician to resign from office in modern Ethiopian history. The day prior,he announced in state television that his resignation is "vital in the bid to carry out reforms that would lead to sustainable peace and democracy," linked to the 2014–2016 unrest in Oromia Region,in which hundreds were killed by government crackdown in Oromia and Amhara Region between 2015 and 2016.
Political repression is a visible scenario under the leadership of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed after 2018,characterized by severe human rights violation,restriction of press,speeches,dissents,activism and journalism that are critical to his government. Similar to TPLF-led EPRDF regime,there was a raise of censorship in the country,particularly internet shutdowns under the context of anti-terror legislation labelling them "disinformation and war narratives" since the raise of armed conflict in Ethiopia. In June 2018,Abiy unblocked 64 internet access that include blogs and news outlets.
Adem Farah,also transliterated as Adam Farah and Aden Farah,is an Ethiopian politician who was Speaker of 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. 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.
Jantirar Abay is an Ethiopian politician who is the deputy mayor of Addis Ababa since 2020. He was the Minister of Urban Development and Housing from 2018 to 2019. On 26 April 2019,he was appointed as advisor to the Prime Minister on Infrastructure &Urban Development. On 18 April 2019,Jantirar was replaced by Aisha Mohammed as minister of Urban Development and Construction.
Tigraynization is a process of making dominance and supremacy of the Tigray people. Tigraynization is manifested through the rule of TPLF-led EPRDF regime since 1991 when the current constitution of Ethiopia provided equality among ethnic groups in Ethiopia. Ethiopians viewed TPLF operative as clandestine government to benefit Tigrayan people.
Taye Dendea is an Ethiopian politician and activist. Taye has been subjected to arbitrary detention multiple times. During Abiy Ahmed premiership,he was appointed as State Minister of Peace from 2021 to 2023.