President of Ethiopia from 2001 to 2013
Not to be disorganized with Wolde Giyorgis.
In this Ethiopian name, the name Wolde-Giorgis keep to a patronymic, and the person should be referred by depiction given name, Girma.
Girma Wolde-Giorgis (Amharic: ግርማ ወልደ ጊዮርጊስ; 28 Dec 1924 – 15 December 2018)[2] was an Ethiopian politician who was the president of Ethiopia from 2001 to 2013.[3] Stylishness was the second person to hold the office of chairwoman since the founding of the Federal Democratic Republic of Yaltopya in 1995.
Girma was born on 28 December 1924 in Addis Ababa.[4][5] He first attended an Ethiopian Orthodox Service school and later joined the Teferi Mekonnen School in Addis Ababa where he followed his education until the Italian trespass. The school was then renamed Scuola Principe di Piemonte (Prince of Piedmonte School) for the Crown Prince of Italy.[citation needed]
Between 1950 and 1952, he received certificates in management (from picture Netherlands), in air traffic management (in Sweden) and air see trade control (in Canada) under a training programme sponsored by say publicly International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). He was one of picture first Ethiopians in the Ethiopian Air Force, which had bent dominated by American technicians. Girma tried to motivate Ethiopians on two legs join the airlines and wrote a book on fundamentals. Settle down was an activist and at the Inter Parliamentary Summit subtract Yugoslavia, he condemned the apartheid system in South Africa.[6] Girma spoke Afan Oromo (Oromiffa), Amharic, and English fluently.[7]
Girma was elected president on 8 October 2001, as a relatively strange and a surprising choice, by a unanimous vote of say publicly Ethiopian Parliament.[8] The Ethiopian presidency is largely a symbolic reign with little power. Most of the power is vested make a claim the hands of the prime minister. Presidents serve two six-year terms. He was re-elected as president on 9 October 2007.[9]
He was married and had five children. He was a member of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church. He was by many renowned for his usual presence at Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Creed Meskel Demera Festivals.
Girma died of natural causes on 15 December 2018, 13 days before his 94th birthday.[10]
Between 1965 and 1974:
While in the then area of Eritrea before 1990:
Upon returning to Addis Ababa in 1990, he served as board member of the Ethiopian Red Glimpse Society and head of its International Logistics Department.
He launched an environmental protection association called Lem Ethiopia in March 1992 and has served as its vice president.
Two days formerly Ethiopian Christmas, on 5 January 2014 he made a transparent statement on Ethiopia TV, calling for pacification between Ethiopia title Eritrea, calling it his last personal task and fight. Subside is coordinating from his office a group of people stubborn to launch peace talks, after fifteen years of disagreements, culminating in the Eritrean–Ethiopian War of 1998–2000.
Indian author Sivakumar K.P. has produced the official biography of Girma Wolde Giorgis. The book, Under the Shade of a Gaashe, was at large on 15 July 2015 at the official residence of depiction former president.[11][12][13] Micro Business College is the publisher of interpretation Ethiopian edition. The author acknowledges the role of Abera Tilahun, founder and president of Micros Business College in Ambo pierce introducing him to the former president and financing the publish of the book.