Abiy Ahmed

Quick Facts

Full Name	Abiy Ahmed
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Aug 15, 1976(1976-08-15)
Age	48
Birthplace	Agaro
Country	Ethiopia
Birth City	Agaro
Horoscope	Leo

Abiy Ahmed Biography

Abiy Ahmed is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on August 15, 1976 in Agaro, Agaro, Ethiopia. Abiy is the 13th child of his father and the sixth and youngest child of his mother, the fourth of his father’s four wives. His childhood name was Abiyot (English: “Revolution”). The name was sometimes given to children in the aftermath of the Derg revolution of 1974. The then Abiyot went to the local primary school and later continued his studies at secondary schools in Agaro town. Abiy, according to several personal reports, was always very interested in his own education and later in his life also encouraged others to learn and to improve.

As a teenager and in early 1991, he joined the armed struggle against the Marxist–Leninist regime of Mengistu Haile Mariam after the death of his oldest brother. He did so as a member of ODP (Oromo Democratic Party), which at that time was a tiny organization of only around 200 fighters in the large coalition army of about 100,000 fighters that resulted in the regime’s fall later that year. As there were only so few ODP fighters in an army with its core of about 90,000 Tigrayans, Abiy quickly had to learn the Tigrinya language. As a speaker of Tigrinya in a security apparatus dominated by Tigrayans, he could move forward with his military career.

Notably, he has also called for the eventual reconstitution of the Ethiopian Navy, dissolved in 1996 in the aftermath of Eritrea’s secession after an extraterritorial sojourn in Djibouti, saying that “we should build our naval force capacity in the future.” It was reported that this move would appeal to nationalists still smarting from the country’s loss of its coastline 25 years prior. Ethiopia already has a maritime training institute on Lake Tana as well as a national shipping line.

The potential normalization of Ethiopia-Eritrea relations likewise opens the possibility for Ethiopia to resume using the Ports of Massawa and Asseb, which, prior to the Ethio-Eritrean conflict, were its main ports, which would be of particular benefit to the northern region of Tigray. All these developments would reduce Ethiopian reliance on Djibouti’s port which, since 1998, has handled almost all of Ethiopia’s maritime traffic.

Abiy started his political career as a member of the ODP (Oromo Democratic Party). The ODP is the ruling party in Oromia Region since 1991 and also one of four coalition parties of the ruling coalition in Ethiopia, the EPRDF (Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front). He became a member of the central committee of ODP and congress member of the Executive Committee of the EPRDF – in quick succession.

Abiy Ahmed Net Worth

Abiy Ahmed is one of the richest Politician from Ethiopia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Abiy Ahmed 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Abiy Ahmed Ali (Ge’ez: ዐቢይ አህመድ አሊ ; born 15 August 1976) is an Ethiopian politician serving as the 10th Prime Minister of Ethiopia since 2 April 2018. He is the first Oromo chairman of the ruling Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) from the Oromo Democratic Party (ODP), which is one of the four coalition parties of the EPRDF. Abiy is also an elected member of the Ethiopian parliament, and a member of the ODP and EPRDF executive committees.

In the north of Ethiopia, and especially in Tigray which was the cradle of the successful revolt against the Derg that in 1991 put in place the current governing coalition, there are reports of increasing anger and ethnic tension as Abiy’s shake-up of the Ethiopian state, which has targeted Tigrayans in top positions, is widely seen as biased and vindictive.

After the fall of the Derg, he took formal military training from Assefa Brigade in West Wollega and was stationed there. His military post was in intelligence and communications. Later on he became a soldier in the now Ethiopian National Defense Force in 1993 and worked mostly in the intelligence and communications departments. In 1995, after the Rwandan genocide, he was deployed as a member of the United Nations Peace Keeping Force (UNAMIR), Kigali, Rwanda. In the Ethio-Eritrea War between 1998 and 2000, he led an intelligence team to discover positions of the Eritrean Defence Forces.

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Who is Abiy Ahmed Dating?

According to our records, Abiy Ahmed married to Zinash Tayachew. As of December 1, 2023, Abiy Ahmed’s is not dating anyone.

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Later on, Abiy was posted back to his home town of Beshasha, where he – as an officer of the Defense Forces – had to address a critical situation of inter- religious clashes between Muslims and Christians with a number of deaths. He brought calm and peace in a situation of communal tensions accompanying the clashes. In later years, following his election as an MP, he continued these efforts to bring about reconciliation between the religions through the creation of the Religious Forum for Peace.

Facts & Trivia

Abiy Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Ethiopia. Abiy Ahmed celebrates birthday on August 15 of every year.

In October 2015, Abiy became the Ethiopian Minister of Science and Technology (MoST), a post which he left after only 12 months. From October 2016 on, Abiy served as Deputy President of Oromia Region as part of the team of Oromia Region’s president Lemma Megersa while staying a member of the Ethiopian Federal House of Peoples’ Representatives. Abiy Ahmed also became the head of the Oromia Urban Development and Planning Office. In this role, Abiy was expected to be the major driving force behind Oromia Economic Revolution, Oromia Land and Investment reform, youth employment as well as resistance to widespread land grabbing in Oromia region. As one of his duties in office, he took care of the one million displaced Oromo people displaced from the Somali region from the 2017 unrest.

How much is Ethiopian prime minister salary?

Prime Minister of Ethiopia
Formation| 1909 (Chief Minister) 1943 (Prime Minister)
Deputy| Deputy Prime Minister of Ethiopia
Salary| 73,60 USD annually
Website| Prime Minister Office – Ethiopia

Who is ABIY Ahmed wife?

Zinash Tayachew

Where is ABIY Ahmed from?

Beshasha, Ethiopia

What is the salary of Ethiopian doctor?

Job TitleLocationSalary
Government of Ethiopia Medical Doctor salaries – 1 salaries reported| Gonder, Ethiopia Area| ETB 10,000/mo
Amanuel Mental Hospital Medical Doctor salaries – 1 salaries reported| Gonder, Ethiopia Area| ETB 9,056/mo

Is Ethiopia rich or poor?

With about 115 million people (2020), Ethiopia is the second most populous nation in Africa after Nigeria, and still the fastest growing economy in the region, with 6.3 percent growth in FY2020/21. However, it is also one of the poorest , with a per capita gross national income of $890.