

They are the parents of three daughters and one adopted son. Abiy married Zinash Tayachew, an Amhara woman from Gondar, while both were serving in the Ethiopian National Defense Force. Abiy, according to several personal reports, was always very interested in his own education and later in his life also encouraged others to learn and to improve. The then Abiyot went to the local primary school and later continued his studies at secondary schools in Agaro town. The name was sometimes given to children in the aftermath of the Ethiopian Revolution in the mid 1970s. His childhood name was Abiyot (English: "Revolution"). Ībiy is the 13th child of his father and the sixth and youngest child of his mother, the fourth of his father's four wives. Despite some sources claiming that his mother was an ethnic Amhara, Abiy said in an Oromia Broadcasting Network interview that both of his parents are Oromo and asserted that "no one is giving or taking away my Oromummaa." Abiy's father was a typical Oromo farmer, speaking only Oromo, while Tezeta was a fluent speaker of both Amharic and Oromo. His deceased father, Ahmed Ali, was a Muslim Oromo while his deceased mother, Tezeta Wolde, was a Christian Oromo. 4.4.2.1 Calls to revoke Nobel Peace PrizeĪbiy Ahmed was born in the small town of Beshasha, Ethiopia.In November 2020, simmering ethnic and political tensions, as well as attacks on the Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF) Northern Command, exploded into the ongoing Tigray War between the combined forces of the ENDF and the Eritrean army against forces loyal to the TPLF-an ethnic party which dominated the erstwhile ruling EPRDF coalition during a nearly thirty-year period marked by rapid development alongside increasing interethnic tension -as well as those loyal to significant allied groups such as the Oromo Liberation Army. This move prompted criticism, especially from the opposition, and raised questions about the delay's constitutional legitimacy. In June 2020, Abiy, in concert with the National Election Board of Ethiopia (NEBE), decided to postpone scheduled parliamentary elections due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Abiy is an elected member of the Ethiopian parliament, and was a member of the Oromo Democratic Party (ODP), one of the then four coalition parties of the EPRDF, until its rule ceased in 2019 and he formed his own party, the Prosperity Party. Abiy was the third chairman of the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) that governed Ethiopia for 28 years and the first Oromo in that position. He won the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize for his work in ending the 20-year post-war territorial stalemate between Ethiopia and Eritrea. Abiy Ahmed Ali ( Oromo: Abiyi Ahmed Alii Amharic: አብይ አሕመድ ዐሊ born 15 August 1976) is an Ethiopian politician who has been the 4th prime minister of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia since 2 April 2018.
