Adanech Abebe

Adanech Abiebie (Amharic: አዳነች አቤቤ, ) is an Ethiopian politician who is serving as the thirty-second mayor of Addis Ababa since 2021. She served as deputy mayor from 2020 until 2021. She previously was the Minister of Revenue and Customs Authority from 2018 to 2020, when she became the first female to assume the role of the Federal Attorney General of Ethiopia. She is the first woman to hold the mayorship since it was created in 1910.

Early life Born in Arsi Province, Adanech has little familial disclosure, according to her education background documents. But it was widely known Abebe Deso is her father. She is the only daughter of six children. Abebe's prominence in the province led to establishing Ireecha Primary School in 1977, where Adanech was received as the first female student. Adanech independently taught herself for the sake of her father based on child marriage. Inspired by her deeds, Abebe progressively admitted the violence against women and criticized parents who did not want to allow their female children to attend school. Initially, five girls enrolled the school, but only Adanech passed the 6th Grade National Exam (Ministry Exam).

Education Adanech completed undergraduate studies at Law in the Ethiopian Civil Service University in 2001, and attended a graduate program in leadership from Greenwich University in the United Kingdom. In November 2021, Adanech visited injured ENDF soldiers at Armed Forces Comprehensive Specialized Hospital in Bishoftu. She donated 15 million birr of medical equipment and other clothes to the military in the course of "law enforcement operation". In October 2021, Adanech visited a cluster wheat farm in Hitosa District in Arsi along with other government officials. At the event, she highlighted to ensure food security and witnessing 680 hectares of land covered with food crop in the current harvest season. Adanech also expressed anti-American stance on the intervention of the war; during March 2021 pro-government rally, she supported the government by underlying "America and its associates, without understanding the ways of the TPLF forces ways and disastrous acts, they are interfering in our domestic affairs by imposing travel sanctions and prerequisites which can by no means be accepted". Personal life Although Adanech never shared her personal life via public media, she revealed her husband Teshome Abebe on a Seifu on EBS talk show episode. Adanech also told she has two children, a boy, and a girl.