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Mulu Solomon Bezuneh is an Ethiopian businesswoman, writer and consultant, the first woman to be appointed as a president of Ethiopian chamber of commerce. [1]
Mulu Solomon was born in 1958 in Qarre Goha, Oromia, Ethiopia. [2] She attended primary school in Qarre Goha (Goha mountains) primary school and she went to Fiche Secondary School. After High-school Mulu earned her Diploma at Commercial School in Addis Ababa, followed by a Bachelors of Arts in Accounting with a minor in Business Administration at Addis Ababa University. Mulu also later received her Masters of Arts in Development Studies, with a concentration in Environment and Development at Addis Ababa University.
Mulu Solomon has received several awards including a United Nations Certificate of Merit Award of Honor; an Honorary Award from Serve the Generation Association; a Star Worker Pin from the Ethiopian Import Export Corp.(ETIMEX); an Extraordinary Leader & Manager Gold Award from D H Geda; and Addis Ababa University EiABC, Certificate of Honor for delivering high-quality teaching. [3]
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Adanech Abebe is an Ethiopian politician and attorney who is serving as the thirty-second mayor of Addis Ababa since 2021. She has been serving as a deputy mayor from 2020 until 2021. She previously was the Minister of Revenue and Customs Authority from 2018 to 2020, when she became the first female to assume the role of the Federal Attorney General of Ethiopia. She is the first woman to hold the mayorship since it was created in 1910.
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