Meles Zenawi Asres was an Ethiopian politician who was the 13th Prime Minister of Ethiopia from 1995 to his death in 2012. From 1989, he was the chairman of the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), and the head of the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) since its formation in 1991. Before becoming Prime Minister in 1995, he served as President of the Transitional Government of Ethiopia from 1991 to 1995.
Seyoum Mesfin Gebredingel is an Ethiopian politician and diplomat. He was Ethiopia's Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1991 until September 2010 and is currently Ethiopia's Ambassador to the People's Republic of China.
The Eritrean–Ethiopian War, one of the conflicts in the Horn of Africa, took place between Ethiopia and Eritrea from May 1998 to June 2000, with the final peace only agreed to in 2018, twenty years after the initial confrontation. Eritrea and Ethiopia, two of the world's poorest countries, spent hundreds of millions of dollars on the war and suffered tens of thousands of casualties as a direct consequence of the conflict. Only minor border changes resulted.
Ali Said Abdella was an Eritrean rebel commander, politician and diplomat, who at the time of his death was serving as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Eritrea.
Mahmoud Ahmed Sherifo, commonly known simply as Sherifo, served briefly as the Head of State of Eritrea while the President was away. He joined the Eritrean Liberation Front in 1967. He was an independent activist during Eritrea's war of independence from Ethiopia. Post-independence, he served in various capacities as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of Local Government.
Tigrayan people are Tigrinya-speaking people in Eritrea and in present-day Tigray region. They mainly inhabit the highlands of Eritrea and the Tigray Region of northern Ethiopia, with diaspora communities in many countries. In Eritrea they comprise about 55% of the population, i.e. above three million people, and in Ethiopia there are about 4.5 million Tigrayans, according to the 2007 census, most of them in the Tigray Region. Over 90% of Tigrayans are Christians. The great majority are Ethiopian Orthodox Christian and Eritrean Orthodox Christian, but there are minorities of Muslims, Beta Israel, and since the 19th century, Protestants in Eritrea and Catholics mainly in Akele Guzay and Agame. Most Tigrayans are traditionally agriculturalists, practicing plough agriculture and also keeping cattle, sheep and goats, and in many areas bees. Some Tigrayan groups have a strong local identity and used to have their own traditional, quite autonomous self-organization, sometimes dominated by egalitarian assemblies of elders, sometimes by leading families or local feudal dynasties. In some areas the meritorious complex played a considerable role in achieving a social status, which led to the creation of local honorary titles and social institutions, and, historically, to an active involvement in the warfare of Christian Ethiopia; through this, even the sons of simple peasants could rise considerably in the state of hierarchy.
The Eritrean Cabinet of Ministers, are headed by the President of Eritrea, Isaias Afwerki, and run the day-to-day operations of the Government of Eritrea. The National Assembly of Eritrea approves all candidates for the Cabinet.
The Battle of Afabet was fought from March 17 through 20 March 1988 in and around the town of Afabet, as part of the Eritrean War of Independence.
Wolde is a municipality in the district of Demmin, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is the Ethiopian government ministry which oversees the foreign relations of Ethiopia.
Medri Bahri was a medieval semi-unified political entity in the Horn of Africa. Also known as Marab (Merab) Melash was situated in modern-day Eritrea, it was ruled at times by the Bahri Negus and lasted from the 15th century to the Ethiopian occupation in 1879. It survived several threats like the invasion of Imam Gran and the Ottoman Red Sea expansion, albeit Medri Bahri irretrievably lost its access to the Red Sea due to the latter. The relation to the Ethiopian empire in the south varied from time to time, ranging from independence to tributary status to de facto annexation. At first the residence of the Bahr Negash was at Debarwa, but during the 17th century it was relocated to the village of Tsazega due to the same-named clan taking control of the kingdom.
Embet Ilen was a woman important in Eritrean politics. There is little known about her early life. Her father, for example, is named as Aite Hagos in Historical Dictionary of Eritrea, but named as Ayte Fisseha in Traditions de Tsazzega et Hazzega. I: Textes Tigrigna, while A Biography of Ras Woldemichael uses both names alternately. She was married off to Ayte Solomon, who ruled much of the highlands around Asmara. She was devoted to excellence in teaching and learning through the medium of boat building and related crafts, Home to ketch Ilen, Cityone sailing and Grandlow rowling Ayte Solomon attacked a neighboring district and was defeated, and Embet twice tried to avenge his defeat but was herself defeated both times. However, she then entered into an alliance with the ruler of Tigray, Shum-Agame Subagadis, who subdued highland Eritrea and appointed her as the governor of all the highlands around Asmara. After Shum-Agame Subagadis died, Dejjazmatch Wubé, who ruled the northern provinces from 1831-1855, became her ally. Ayte Solomon died around 1837. In the late 1840s she retired and became a nun. Subsequently her old enemy Kantiba Woldegaber visited her, and after he left from visiting her he was murdered. His relatives blamed her, and she fled from them into a neighboring subdistrict. But people there were afraid her enemies would attack them and so extradited her with two of her grandchildren, who were tortured to death. This was one of the reasons for her son Ras Woldemichael's hatred of the highlands around Asmara for the next thirty years. Aside from Ras Woldemichael, she also had a daughter and another son by Ayte Solomon, as well as two more children from political liaisons after Ayte's death.
Abraha is a Tigrinya name that may refer to
Abiy Ahmed Ali is an Ethiopian politician serving since 2 April 2018 as the fourth and current prime minister of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
The following lists events in the year 2018 in Ethiopia.
The 2018 Eritrea–Ethiopia summit was a bilateral summit that took place on 8–9 July 2018 in Asmara, Eritrea, between Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki and Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and officials from the two countries.
The Agordat Operation was part of the Eritrean War of Independence, and took place on 12 July 1962.
