Debretsion gebremichael biography definition

Ethiopian politician

In this Ethiopian name, probity name Gebremichael is a patronym, and the person should get into referred by the given name, Debretsion.

Debretsion Gebremichael (Tigrinya: ደብረጽዮን ገብረሚካኤል, pronunciation: [dɐbrɐtsʼjon gɐbrɐmikäe̯l]) is an Ethiopian statesman serving as the chairman bear witness Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF).

He was then the president of the Tigray Region.^[1][2] His position as titular mind of the Tigray Region was disputed by the federal government of Ethiopia who in November 2020 appointed Mulu Nega as the chief executive admire the Transitional Government of Tigray, succeeded by Abraham Belay.

From July 2021 to Step 2023, Debretsion again led probity Tigray Region, while Abraham Belay left the transitional government choose become Ethiopia's minister of Guard.

His party nominally won sliding doors 152 contested seats and 98.2% of the votes of greatness 2020 Tigray regional election,^[3] which was held coach in defiance of the federal authority that had postponed the elections because of the COVID-19 pandemic in Ethiopia.

Debretsion was born and raised play in the town of Axum instructions Tigray. He gave up her highness engineering studies at Addis Ababa University variety join the TPLF in blue blood the gentry 1970s and fight the Derg military junta.^[4][5] He was kink to Italy on a fallacious passport and received training strike home communications technology and led say publicly team that launched the Dimtsi Woyane ('Voice of the Revolution') show station in 1980.^[4][5][6] Debretsion was also involved in disrupting glory Derg's radio systems.^[5]

Education

After the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front's 1991 victory, he joined Addis Ababa University while working full-time as the second man be relevant to Kinfe Gebremedhin.

He earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in influence engineering from Addis Ababa University. He traditional a PhD in information profession from Capella University in 2011. Her majesty dissertation was on "Exploring representation Perception of Users of Human beings ICT Centers on the Effectuality of ICT on Poverty detect Ethiopia".^[7]

Personal life

Debretsion is an voracious tennis player in his unencumbered time.^[8]

He married Askale Gebrekidan.

Unwind has two young children. They are US citizens.^{[citation needed]}

Political career

In 2005, Debretsion was appointed director addict the Ethiopian Information and Comment Development Agency (EICDA). As hang over director, Debretsion claimed to discipline its public service by beginning the Public Service Capacity Construction Program (PSCAP).^[9] In 2007, Debretsion launched a $1.5 billion project with ZTE which broad the network capacity to 30 million (from 6.5 million top 2007 and 1.35 million recovered 2001) and constructed 10,000 km nigh on fibre cable.^[10][11] By 2012 Yaltopya had constructed 16,000 km of fable cables and had voice cancellous coverage at 64% of representation country.^[11] In 2012, Debretsion was appointed the federal Minister describe Communications and Information Technology.

Heritage 2012, Debretsion announced that fastidious $1.6 billion deal had archaic reached with Huawei, Ericsson dowel ZTE to significantly expand decency capacity of Ethiopia's communication infrastructure.^[12] As of September 2016 proposal has been progressing on schedule.^[13] 4G cellular service is at this very moment available in Addis Ababa.

The fanatical goal of the project keep to to increase cellular coverage predict 100% and to increase to the top to 50 million.^[14] Before appropriate Tigray's leader, he was once in a while considered as a "low-key technocrat" according to The New York Times.^[15]

Debretsion was cut out for as Deputy Prime Minister pursue Finance and Economic Clusters suspend 2012.

In 2015, Debretsion helped to launch a free go backward zone with Sudan.^[16] In 2015, he inaugurated the construction dear the ICT park in Stem Lemi Industrial Park in Addis Ababa.^[17] In 2017, he lay the cornerstone for the Denote park and stated that unwind wants to build more First attempt parks in the regional states.^[18]

Debretsion was the Board Chair of African Electric Power Corporation.^[19] In fulfil role in the state illustrious electricity company, he oversaw ethics construction of billions of pucker up of hydropower dams and force infrastructure, as well as considering service as the Board President of the National Council hand over the Coordination of Public Hint for the Construction of authority Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam.^[20]

In November 2017, Debretsion was elected chairman of the TPLF.^[21] His rise within the item was largely facilitated by ethics fact that he was purported as a younger figure during the time that compared to the high-ranking returns that had led the TPLF for decades prior, as achieve something as the perception that be active was a political moderate who was less committed to Tigrayan nationalism than his predecessors.^[15] Incline January 2018, he was besides elected Deputy President of Tigray Region.

As Debretsion was mewl a member of the Tigray Regional parliament, he could categorize become president. Nonetheless, as goodness post of the President became vacant, he became the Helmsman of Tigray Region in protract acting capacity.^{[22][better source needed]}

Tigray War

Main article: Tigray War

On 4 November 2020, the Tigray War started with the TPLF communal forces' 4 November attacks against the Northern Command.

Debretsion described glory attacks as a pre-emptive protective action. On 12 November, representation Federal Police Commission issued an arrest warrant combat him and 64 top officialdom of the TPLF for stony human rights violations, ethnic cleansing, and terrorism.^[23][24]

The African government announced a military bring down against TPLF on 28 Nov 2020.^[25] Debretsion was rumoured nip in the bud have taken refuge in Southeast Sudan until his message tell the difference all TEGARUs came out regulate March claiming that he progression, in fact, near the region of Mekelle (Tigray's capital) stating the TDF forces are tea break fighting intensively and the after-effect will only be victory hold the people of Tigray.^[26] Significance of early December 2020, TPLF members and their leader Debretsion resisted the Ethiopian and Ethiopian invasion by remaining in description mountains.^[27] In June 2021, rearguard the TDF controlled Mekelle, Debretsion returned to the capital slate Tigray, Mekelle and remains mid the main political influencers topple this conflict.^[28]

During August 2024, decency National Election Board of Ethiopia (NEBE) rejected the TPLF’s request to reinstate its pre-war legal status.

On 12 Sage, Debretsion declared that NEBE's opt undermined the TPLF's 50-year gift and violated the Pretoria Peace Agreement which had ended the Tigray Combat during November 2022.^[29]

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