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Sahle-Work Zewde (Amharic: ሣህለ ወርቅ ዘውዴ, born 21 February 1950) is an Ethiopian diplomat who served as president of Ethiopia from 2018 to 2024, the first woman to hold the office. She was elected as president unanimously by members of the Federal Parliamentary Assembly on 25 October 2018.
A presidential election was held in Ethiopia on 7 October 2024 to elect its next president. [1] Diplomat and outgoing minister of foreign affairs Taye Atske Selassie was elected without contest to a six-year term amid tensions between former president Sahle-Work Zewde and prime minister Abiy Ahmed. [2]
[1] [2] It was the fifth presidential election of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia to elect its fourth president. [3] Diplomat Sahle-Work Zewde was elected without contest to a six-year term, becoming Ethiopia's first non-royal female head of state [4] [5] and the first female head of state since the death of Empress Zewditu in 1930. [1]
Taye Atske Selassie Amde (Amharic: ታዬ አጽቀሥላሴ, born 13 January 1956) [1] is an Ethiopian diplomat and politician who is serving as president of Ethiopia since 7 October 2024. [2] [3] [4] He has worked as ambassador on numerous occasions in the United Nations. [5] Prior to assuming this role, he served as the Minister of Foreign ...
Ethiopia's parliament has approved senior diplomat Sahle-Work Zewde as the country's first female president, proceedings on state television showed, cementing another shift in the country's ...
However, the president presides as a ceremonial commander-in-chief of the Ethiopian Armed Forces. The first president of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia was Negasso Gidada, who served from 1995 to 2001. Sahle-Work Zewde was the first female president who had served from 2018
Binalf Andualem (Amharic: ብናልፍ አንዷለም) is an Ethiopian politician who is the Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Ethiopia to the United States since 2024. [1] He served as Minister of Peace from 2021 to 2024.
Sahle-Work Zewde: Prime Minister: Abiy Ahmed: Preceded by: Post established: Succeeded by: Binalf Andualem: Speaker of the House of People's Representatives; In office 19 April 2018 – 16 October 2018: Preceded by: Abadula Gemeda: Succeeded by: Tagesse Chafo: Leader of the Southern Ethiopian People's Democratic Movement; In office 25 June 2018 ...