10 Things You Didn’t Know About Abiy Ahmed Ali - Ethiopia’s Prime Minister

10 Things You Didn’t Know About Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali.

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Hello Displorers, welcome to another informative video presented to you by Displore and thanks for watching. In this video, we shall dive into the life of one of Africa’s youngest leaders, Ethiopia’s prime minister Abiy Ahmed Ali and present to you some lesser known but interesting facts about This Amazing African Politician. Abiy Ahmed Ali born 15th of August 1976 is an Ethiopian politician serving as the 10th Prime Minister of Ethiopia and the 4th Prime Minister of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia since the 2nd of April 2018. Before and after taking office as PM of Ethiopia, Abiy Ahmed had left many tongues wagging because of his principles and achievements. Even the current president of the free world had something to say about Abiy Ahmed; stay to the end to know what Mr. Trump thinks of the Ethiopian PM. Despite his popularity, there are definitely some things about the good PM which are not public knowledge and hence, in this video, we will bring you 10 things you probably didn’t know about Abiy Ahmed Ali.

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From his past to his present, his falls and conquests, here are 10 things you probably didn’t know about Abiy Ahmed Ali.


1. He is an Ex-Military Man
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 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. After the fall of the Derg, he took formal military training from Assefa Brigade in West Wollega and was stationed there. 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, Kigali, Rwanda. After a fulfilling military service, in 2008, Abiy was one of the co-founders of the Ethiopian Information Network Security Agency, where he worked in different positions. He has a great military career attaining the rank of Lieutenant Colonel before deciding in 2010 to leave the military and his post as deputy director of INSA to become a politician.
2. He Strongly Believes in Education
Abiy Ahmed believes in continuous improvement through education and he has set a shining example to what he preaches. While serving in the Ethiopian National Defense Force, Abiy received his first degree, a Bachelor's degree in computer engineering from the Microlink Information Technology College in Addis Ababa in2001.Abiy holds a Master of Arts in Transformational Leadership earned from the business school at Greenwich University, London, in collaboration with the International Leadership Institute, Addis Ababa, in 2011. He also holds a Master of Business Administration from the Leadstar College of Management and Leadership in Addis Ababa. Abiy completed his Doctor of Philosophy work in 2017 at the Institute for Peace and Security Studies, Addis Ababa University. As a follow-up to his Ph.D. thesis, he published a research article on de-escalation strategies in the Horn of Africa in a special journal issue dedicated to countering violent extremism.

3. He Climbed the Political Ladder Pretty Fast
Abiy started his political career as a member of the Oromo Democratic Party which was the ruling party in Oromia Region since 1991 and also one of four coalition parties of the ruling coalition in Ethiopia, the EPRDF. In 2014, during his time in parliament, Abiy became the director-general of a new and in 2011 founded Government Research Institute called Science and Technology Information Center.The following year, Abiy became an executive member of ODP. The same year he was elected to the House of Peoples' Representatives for a second term, this time for his home woreda of Gomma.Starting from 2015, Abiy became one of the central figures in the violent fight against illegal land grabbing activities in Oromia Region and especially around Addis Ababa. It was this fight against land-grabbing, that finally boosted Abiy Ahmed's political career, brought him into the spotlight and allowed him to climb the political ladder.In 2015, Abiy Ahmed also became the head of the Oromia Urban Development and Planning Office.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.In early 2018, Abiy won the post of PM against opponent Lemma Megersa.

4. Abiy Ahmed Has Been the Most Memorable Prime