Gebru asrat biography
Gebru Asrat is an Ethiopian politician, former president of Tigray Region, and one of the top leaders of the Tigray People's Liberation Front and the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front until around , when he founded a new party.
Gebru Asrat is an Ethiopian politician, former president of Tigray Region (–), and one of the top leaders of the Tigray People's Liberation Front....
Gebru Asrat
Ethiopian politician
Gebru Asrat is an Ethiopian politician, former president of Tigray Region (1991–2001), and one of the top leaders of the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) and the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) until around 2000, when he founded a new party, Arena Tigray.[1]
Early life
Gebru was born in Mekelle, Ethiopia and attended Atse Yohannes High School and Haile Selassie I University during the early 1970s.
He holds an undergraduate and graduate degree in economics.[citation needed]
Career
After the TPLF defeated the Derg in the Ethiopian Civil War, Gebru became President of Tigray Region.
Under Gebru a number of institutions of higher education, industries, hospitals and infrastructures were established in Tigray.[citation needed]
In May 1998, Eritrea started a border war which led to the death of tens of thousands of people on both sides.[2] By the end of the war, t