Siye Abraha Hagos is an Ethiopian politician who served as Ethiopian Minister of Defense from 1991 to 1995.
16 Facts About Siye Abraha
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Siye Abraha was a top official of Tigray People's Liberation Front and Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front executive committees until 2002.
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Siye Abraha was born in the village of Addeha in Tembien, Tigray Province, Ethiopian Empire.
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Siye Abraha attended elementary school in Tigray and then General Wingate Secondary School in Addis Ababa.
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Siye Abraha then attended Addis Ababa University as medical student where he was active in the student movement but left his university study after his first year to join TPLF for armed struggle.
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Siye Abraha received a Master of Arts degree in Public Administration from Harvard University in 2012, and a Master of Business Administration degree from the Open University in 1995.
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Siye Abraha is married to a former Tigray People's Liberation Front rebel fighter and they have one daughter and two sons together.
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Siye Abraha was Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of the Endowment Fund for the Rehabilitation of Tigray from its founding in 1995 until 2000.
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Siye Abraha had played significant role in the introduction of the economic rehabilitation and restructuring policies following the end of the war in the early nineties.
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Siye Abraha was involved in the running of a big Endowment Fund which was involved in diverse development activities.
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Siye Abraha was arrested in July of 2002, accused by the Federal Ethics and Anticorruption Commission of abuse of office by aiding his associates to unfairly obtain bank loans and buying state properties.
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In July 2008, Siye Abraha became a founding member of the Forum for Democratic Dialogue, a new coalition of opposition parties and activists.
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From 2011 to 2012, Siye Abraha was a fellow in the Mason Program at Harvard Kennedy School.
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Siye Abraha graduated in mid 2012 and joined United Nations Development Programme.
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In 2013, Siye Abraha was appointed as Security Sector Reform Advisor by UNDP.
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Siye Abraha has been working as Security Sector Reform Advisor in Liberia.