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Toronto – A week after removing Taye Atseke Selassie as Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Ethiopian Prime Minister announced on Friday that he has appointed Gedion Timothewos for the top diplomatic position in the country.
Gedion has no known background or experience in diplomacy. With academic background in law from Addis Ababa University and Central European University, Budapest Hungary, he has served in Abiy Ahmed’s administration as Attorney General.
Before joining politics following Abiy Ahmed’s take over of power as Prime Minister in 2018, Gedion had a brief experience in teaching. He taught “constitution building in Africa” for about a year and has also served as an editor in chief of Journal of Ethiopian Law.
He was also serving as Minister for Justice since October 2021. His wife , Hanna Arayaselassie, was appointed as Minister for Justice on the same day that he was appointed Foreign Affairs Minister. Before her new role, she was serving as Commissioner for Ethiopian Investment Commission.
Geidon has demonstrated a great deal of loyalty to Abiy Ahmed (they are both from protestant religion) and has been justifying Abiy Ahmed’s military campaigns in different parts of the country.
Over the past six years, Abiy Ahmed, with support from his western backers including the United States, has consolidated his power in the country despite his experiencing an unprecedented legitimacy crisis. Over 90 percent of the Ethiopian parliament is from his ruling party which gave Abiy Ahmed an ease to enact whatever he wants as law.
In a related development, Selamawit Kassa, who was serving as deputy government communication Minister, is appointed as Minister for Tourism.
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These appointments of two women to ministerial positions are encouraging news for me. 2 women and 1 man? It gives me hope that sooner if not later our women will be able to wrestle away the mantle of ruling that country peacefully from the men who have been the sole leaders of the country for millennia.
Dear my countrywomen,
We the men have been ruling that country for centuries. We had monopolized the top mantle one after another that we have grown to be so arrogant about it. We start bloody and destructive wars for stupid reasons where we have sent millions of your children to awaiting inferno and you are still wailing for them. We men have stopped listening to reasons. We have to be denied of that monopoly of power by you peacefully and tell us men to stand way back in line for the next 100 years. Just look at what we started in both Amhara and Oromia regions. We are sending thousands of your sons and daughters to their inevitable deaths in those two regions for utterly stupid reasons. That was started just at the heels of the end of the bloody mayhem we men waged in the northern part of the country where close to a million young men and women lost Allah blessed lives. Who knows where we will light up the next bloodshed.
Such evil and destructive cycle of destructive mayhem will go on as long as we the men are running the affairs of that country, the country that is cited as good doer in the Holy Scriptures of the two major religions of the world. It has to be saved and that chance is in your blessed hands.
There are many who are better than Gedion but who? How come I don’t see Hararis in politics?