Who is Ahmed Shide, the first Somali elected as the Speaker of the Ethiopian Parliament?

Who is Ahmed Shide, the first Somali to be elected as the Speaker of the Ethiopian Parliament?

The House of Representatives of Ethiopia yesterday elected Ahmed Shide as the Speaker of the House for a term of five years.

Ayyalach Isheetee was also elected as the Deputy Speaker of the House.

Ahmed Shide has previously served as the Minister of Finance of Ethiopia, and he has held various positions in the government.

He became the second person to serve the longest time in the position of Minister of Finance, holding that position for approximately eight years.

After his election, Ahmed Shide was sworn in as the Speaker of the House of Representatives.

He is a politician who has been active in Ethiopian politics for a long time, and now he has become the first Somali to hold the position of Speaker of the House of the Ethiopian Parliament.

Ahmed Shide studied Resource Management and Conflict Resolution at an institute in the Netherlands. He then obtained a bachelor's degree in development studies from Salix University in the United Kingdom.

He has held various positions in the Somali Regional State of Ethiopia, including Deputy Head of the Office of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chairman of the Livestock Affairs Committee in 2003, and Head of the Office for Improving Social Services.

A man named Girma Gutema, who claimed to be a close friend of Ahmed, noted that Ahmed Shide grew up in the city of Nageyle in Ethiopia, where he completed his primary and secondary education.

In 2008, he was appointed as the Minister of Finance for the first time. Also, in November 2016, he became the Minister of Transport.

On April 19, 2018, he was sworn in as the head of the Government Communications Office.