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ADDIS ABABA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
BOARD OF DIRECTORS - President: KEBOUR GHENNA (General Manager of Infotech Plc); Vice-President: TEKLU MARU (General Manager of FWT Priv. Ltd. Co.) BOARDS MEMBERS - SHIFERAW BEZUNEH (General Manager of AE & Co. Trading); MAHUSENEY ARAYA (General Manager of Nyala Insurance Co.); ROBERTO IACONA (General Manager of Iacona Engineering); DESBEL BALCHA (General Manager of Shawul Consult); HAILE MICHAEL KUMSA (General Manager of Ethiopian Insurance Corp.); AHMED ABDELA ABEB (General Manager of Abeker Trading); YOHANNES AFEWORK (General Manager of Afework Int. Group); AGEGNEHU SISAY (General Manager of Etfruit) SECRETARIAT OFFICERS - General Secretary: SHIFERAW BEKELE W/KIDAN; Head of Trade Promotion Department: HAILEMESKEL ABEBE; Head of Trade Information Department: HUSSEIN SHIBESHI; Head of Administration & Finance: WOLDEYESUS WOLDE MARIAM; Head of Committee Coordinating Department: ABERA FELEKE; Head of Personal & General Service: BELAYHUN MEKONNEN; Head of Public Relations Department: ADISU TEKELE; Head of Accounts Division: Ms HABLEWORK ASSEFA; Head of Audit & Inspection Service: TESFAYE CHERINET
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FORUM 84
Forum 84 was set up in 1991 (1984 in the Ethiopian calendar corresponds with 1991 in the Gregorian calendar) grouping former members of the EPRP (Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Party) who rallied to the new regime in 1991.
Chairman ..................................TESHOME ASRAT - Also known as Engida in the EPRP, he was born in Shoa. He defected from the EPRP and worked in the ministry of Information under Mengistu Haile Mariam. When Meles Zenawi came to power in 1991, he became general manager of the Ethiopian Television Enterprise (state Ethiopian TV). He is a university graduate from Addis Ababa. He is married and has three children. Deputy Chairman ......................TAYE ASKE SELASSIE - Born in Gondar, he finished university studies in science and technology in 1985. He has a second degree from England and worked as a secretary of the Constitution Drafting Commission in Addis Ababa (1994). He then worked in the Foreign ministry and is presently counsellor in the Ethiopian embassy in Stockholm. Married, he has two children. Secretary ...................................TESHOME BEHAILU - Born in Harar of Amhara and Gurage parents. He finished university studies in Addis Ababa in 1978. He then worked as an expert for the Maritime Authority. He was also general manager of the Ambassel Corporation, a company linked to the ANDM (Amhara National Democratic Movement, part of the EPRDF). He was purged and is now impoverished. Married with children. Executive member ......……..........FASIL TADESSE - Tigrayan, he defected from the EPRP and finished his university studies during the Mengistu era. Supervisor within the prime minister's Office of Development Agencies, he was sent to London for further studies. He has returned to Ethiopia, but has not been assigned to a post. Executive member ..........…........HAILE MARIAM WOLDU - A Saho from Tigray, he was secretary of the Addis Ababa regional administration. He is now assigned to the ministry of Health. Executive member .............…......AMANUEL MILIFO - From Southern Wollega, he was commissionner for the Commission for Pensions before being purged. He is married to Ms Taitu Ali (born in Wollo) who is also a Forum 84 member and now secretary of the Addis Ababa administration (Region 14). Executive member .............…....…TESFAYE SEBHATU - General manager of the Asco Shoe factory Executive members ..............……..MOHAMED IDRIS, JEMAL SULEIMAN, FANTAHUM MELESE - All of them are from Gondar and officials of the Amhara Regional State administration. Executive member ..........……….....DAWI IBRAHIM - Former head of the CETU (Confederation of Ethiopian Trade Unions)............................................................................................................................................................
INTER AFRICA GROUP
The Inter Africa Group was formed in 1992 by Abdul Mohamed Ababora, Jelal Mohamed, Henok Kifle and Endreas Eshete, a university professor (philosophy) in Addis Ababa. It was formally an NGO based in Nairobi and Addis Ababa. It is financed by the United States mainly. The organization helped monitor the 1995 elections. It is involved in development and education projects and organized in Addis Ababa an international symposium on the transitional economy.
Abdul Mohamed Ababora was born in Jimma and educated at the St. Joseph private school in Addis Ababa. In his mid forties, he is the son of a merchant in the "mercato" in Addis Ababa. He went to the United States in the early seventies and studied there. He worked for the World Council of Churches and other NGOs and remained some time in Kenya and in Sudan. He worked for UNICEF in Nairobi for many years and had close relations with the SPLA (Sudan People's Liberation Army), especially with Lam Akol and Mansour Khaled. He was one of the nine members of the Peace Committee which met Issayas Afeworki from the EPLF, and Meles Zenawi from the TPLF, at the London Peace Conference in May 1991. The other members of this committee included Professor Mesfin Wolde Mariam (now EHRCO -Ethiopian Human Rights Council- chairman), Endreas Eshete, Henok Kifle, Yishak Kifle (now a member of CAFPDE and a business man, etc).
Inter Africa Group is now composed mainly of Abdul Mohamed Ababora, Endreas Eshete and Jelal Mohamed. Former members such as Henok Kifle have left. It is a powerful behind-the-scenes group. Many newspapers in Addis Ababa have voiced criticism of the group and Abdul, accusing them of being linked to the Ethiopian government and too close to US policy.
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