Hailemariam Desalegn
Hailemariam Desalegn Boshe is an Ethiopian politician who has served as Prime Minister of Ethiopia since 2012. Hailemariam Desalegn previously served as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs under Prime Minister Meles Zenawi from 2010 to 2012. When Meles died in August 2012, Hailemariam Desalegn succeeded him as Prime Minister, initially in an acting capacity. He was then elected as the Chair of the Ethiopian Peoples Revolutionary Democratic Front , the ruling party, onSeptember 2012. Hailemariam Desalegn also served as the Chairperson of the African Union from 2013 to 2014.
Hailemariam was born in 1965 in the Boloso Sore District of the Wolayita Zone in southern Ethiopia. He studied and spent most of his youth in the area.
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