Ethiopian politician; Mayor of Addis Ababa since 2021
This article is about a person whose name includes a patronymic. The article properly refers to the person by her given name, Adanech, and not as Abebe.
Adanech Abebe
Adaanach Abbabee
Adanech in 2019
32nd Mayor of Addis Ababa
Incumbent
Assumed office 28 September 2021 (2021-09-28)
President
Sahle-Work Zewde
Prime Minister
Abiy Ahmed
Deputy Mayor of Addis Ababa
In office 18 August 2020 (2020-08-18) – 28 September 2021
President
Sahle-Work Zewde
Prime Minister
Abiy Ahmed
Preceded by
Takele Uma Banti
Attorney General
In office 12 March 2020 (2020-03-12) – 18 August 2020 (2020-08-18)
Preceded by
Berhanu Tsegaye
Succeeded by
Gedion Timothewos
Minister of Revenue and Customs Authority
In office October 2018 – March 2020
Personal details
Born
Arsi Province, Ethiopia
Political party
Prosperity Party
Children
2
Alma mater
Ethiopian Civil Service University
Greenwich University
Adanech Abebe (Oromo: Adaanach Abeebee) is an Ethiopian politician and attorney who is serving as the thirty-second mayor of Addis Ababa since 2021. She has been serving as a deputy mayor from 2020 until 2021. She previously was the Minister of Revenue and Customs Authority from 2018[1][2] to 2020, when she became the first female to assume the role of the Federal Attorney General of Ethiopia.[3][4][5][6] She is the first woman to hold the mayorship since it was created in 1910.[7]
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^"Adanech Abebe to Swear Oath as Attorney General". Addis Fortune. 11 March 2020. Archived from the original on 30 December 2020. Retrieved 31 December 2020.
^""I will perform my duty and ask my right" | Addis Ababa University". www.aau.edu.et. Retrieved 31 October 2020.
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AdanechAbebe (Oromo: Adaanach Abeebee) is an Ethiopian politician and attorney who is serving as the thirty-second mayor of Addis Ababa since 2021. She...
City Hall. AdanechAbebe is the first woman mayor and 32nd mayor of Addis Ababa since 28 September 2021. The incumbent mayor AdanechAbebe was the Attorney...
its ownership of Addis Ababa. Both the current mayor of Addis Ababa, AdanechAbebe, and the former mayor, Takele Uma Banti are from the former ruling party...
Country Ethiopia Website cityaddisababa.gov.et Legislative branch Meeting place Addis Ababa City Hall Mayor AdanechAbebe Head Mulugeta Tefera Wossen Megra...
ministers was reduced from 28 to 20. The other eight women ministers were AdanechAbebe, Dagmawit Moges, Ergoge Tesfaye, Fetlework Gebregziabher, Fitsum Assefa...
served as the second Attorney General until 2020. He was succeeded by AdanechAbebe, who served as acting attorney general from 12 March to 18 August. The...
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figures, government officials, families and fans. Mayor of Addis Ababa AdanechAbebe paid tribute to him after his death. His body was laid to rest at the...
President of Oromia Region Shimelis Abdisa, Deputy Mayor of Addis Ababa AdanechAbebe and other public figures also attended the funeral. Biography portal...
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announcement of name changing to Eid Square by deputy mayor of Addis Ababa AdanechAbebe. It was later debunked by PesaCheck. In January 2022, another controversy...
AdanechAbebe Minister of Justice In office 6 October 2021 – 2 November 2021 President Sahle-Work Zewde Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Preceded by Adanech...
Ahmed along with Mayor of Addis Ababa AdanechAbebe inaugurated dialysis center at the hospital. Tola, Kasu; Abebe, Haftom; Gebremariam, Yemane; Jikamo...
appointed as the President of the Federal Supreme Court of Ethiopia (2018) AdanechAbebe: First female to serve as the Federal Attorney General of Ethiopia (2020)...
Church. Under mayor ship of AdanechAbebe, the square ownership was disputed between the Orthodox and Protestant followers. Adanech claimed that the square...
capital. On February 15, Lula separately met with Addis Ababa's mayor AdanechAbebe, with whom he attended a ceremony in honor to the fallen of the Battle...
Mideksa - 2009 President - Sahle-Work Zewde – 2018 Mayor of Addis Ababa – AdanechAbebe – 2021 Member of Parliament – Virginie Ambougou and Antoinette Tsono...
of the House of Federation Tagesse Chaffo, the mayor of Addis Ababa AdanechAbebe, and the President of Oromia Region Shimeles Abdisa also presented....
Benti becomes mayor. 2020 AdanechAbebe becomes a Deputy mayor, being the first female mayor to hold a position. 2021 AdanechAbebe reelected as a mayor United...
were detained over allegations of terrorism, the mayor of Addis Ababa, AdanechAbebe, announced. On 8 November 2020, as the Ethiopian military's offensive...
Silver Bronze 100 metres Nathan Abebe 10.70 s Tewodros Atnaf 10.79 s Abdulsetar Kemal 11.12 s 200 metres Nathan Abebe 21.05 s Efrem Mekonnen 21.29 s Henok...
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