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Tesfaye Dinka
Ethiopian politician; acting Prime Minister of Ethiopia in 1991
In this Ethiopian name, the name Dinka Yadessa is a patronymic, and the person should be referred by the given name, Tesfaye.
Tesfaye Dinka Yadessa (Amharic: ተስፋዬ ዲንቃ ያደሳ; 3 November 1939 – 6 December 2016) was an Ethiopian politician who was Minister of Finance (1983–1986),[1]Minister of Foreign Affairs (1989–1991), and Prime Minister (26 April–6 June 1991) of Ethiopia. He was the head of the delegation of the Ethiopian Government during the London Conference of 1991 which aimed to end the Ethiopian Civil War.
Early life
[edit]Born in 1939, in Ambo, Tesfaye was of Oromo descent. He did his elementary education in Ambo, and then attended the General Wingate Secondary School in Addis Ababa. He did his BA from the American University of Beirut, and an MBA and MSc in Industrial Engineering from Syracuse University.
Political career
[edit]He was a leading member of the regime of Mengistu Haile Mariam and alternate member of the Politburo of the Workers' Party of Ethiopia. Prior to his appointment as prime minister, Tesfaye served in various ministerial posts, successively as Acting Minister of National Resources Development, Minister of Industry, Finance, and Foreign Affairs; h
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Once more, irreconcilable blocs are vying for power
One of the common fallacies bedevilling contemporary Ethiopian political analysis is presenting the 28 years of Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) rule as uniform.Instead, there were three phases:
- 1991-95, the EPRDF-era takes shape: The transitional government and shared rule; stabilization of the country; and 1993 Eritrean referendum.
- 1995-2005, politics occurs within EPRDF: The first two elections in 1995 and 2000, the 1998-2000 Ethio-Eritrea war, the 2000 Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) rupture.
- 2005-2018, EPRDF is tested, retains power, falls apart: The open 2005 election, its violent aftermath, reinstating a centralized authoritarian regime, growth and decay, sham elections, protests, the fall of Hailemariam’s government.
Within these three phases, the 2005 election was the critical event—and right now it is more important than ever.
It not only shaped the course of the EPRDF era, but also displays stark similarities to the current alarming situation the country is in. The parallels are such that in many ways we are revisiting 2005, with one bloc committed to multinational federalism and another looking for an election victory to pave the way to revise the constitutional order.