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Speaking at the UN General Assembly meeting of world leaders on Saturday, Ethiopia's Deputy Prime Minster Demeke Mekonnen defended his country's conduct in the 10-month-old war. Demeke Mekonnen was kept as deputy prime minister under the new government.Ethiopia has told the international community to steer clear of sanctions and avoid meddling over its war with forces from its Tigray region, and to let the African Union work on bringing all parties together. Instead, Hailemariam continued as a caretaker until the election of a new prime minister, Abiy Ahmed, on 2 April 2018. It was then expected that the ruling EPRDF would name deputy prime minister Demeke as the successor to Hailemariam, but this did not happen. On 15 February 2018, then Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn announced his resignation. Demeke was assigned to the task to organize the government response and to organize the food aid provided by international organizations. In late 2015, the lower than expected spring and summer rains and the upcoming El Nino event resulted in a severe drought in Ethiopia in 2016, considered the worst drought in 30 years, with up to 10% of Ethiopians in the eastern and southern parts of Ethiopia requiring international assistance to survive in 20. The main task given to Demeke in 2012 was the coordination of efforts to implement and further the Growth and Transformation Plan across all governmental ministries and agencies. Demeke had assumed the role in September 2012 under Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn. He continued to serve as minister until July 2013, when he resigned due to his heavy workload as deputy prime minister. Finally, he was elevated to the position of deputy chair of the party replacing Tefera Walwa and in 2010 became the first non-combatant chairman of the ANDM, replacing Addisu Legesse.ĭemekes first role on the national level within the ruling EPRDF coalition began in 2008, when he took over the post of Minister of Education under the then Prime Minister Meles Zenawi. A year later, he was elected to the executive committee of ANDM, a member of the EPRDF coalition formed in 1983, in Jerba Yohannes of Wag Himra Zone. He was then promoted to the vice presidency of the regional state following the highly contested election in 2005, under the presidency of Ayalew Gobeze. He was then moved to head the administrative and security affairs bureau of the region, where he had served up until 2005. Upon his return in 2001, he was assigned to establish and lead the ethics and anti-corruption commission of the region.
In the middle of his term, he went to England to do his post-graduate studies in conflict management. Demeke first took part in the national election held in 1995, and won a seat in the Amhara Regional Council, where he was appointed general secretary. Political career ĭemeke joined Amhara's ruling ADP in the early 1990s. It was in Bure, which housed the lone high school in the area named after the former governor of the region, Ras Bitwoded Mengesha Atikim, that Demeke met Alemitu Kassaye, a student of the high school at that time, and his future wife and mother of his three children. He taught biology in Feres Bet High School, for two years, before he was transferred to Bure in the same province. Īfter graduation, he returned to his native region to begin his career as a teacher. He also earned his MA in Political Science from Bradford University. Later he joined the Addis Ababa University and studied Biology in the Arat Kilo campus and received his BA in 1988. ĭemeke was sent to a high school in Feres Bet, a town located in the present day Dega Damot woreda in Mirab Gojjam Zone. Demeke was born in the Gojjam Province of Ethiopia and later was resettled to the Chagni woreda during the Derg's resettlement program.