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Haddis Alemayehu

Died in 2003

Haddis Alemayehu was born on 15 October 1910 near Debre Markos, in Gojjam, the son of an Orthodox priest, and received a church education in the monasteries of the province before attending the modern schools of Addis Ababa. A fighter in the Italo-Ethiopian war, he was captured and deported to the islands of Ponza and then Lipari, from which the Allies freed him. A diplomat and minister under Haile Selassie, up to foreign affairs, he sat in the senate from 1968 to 1974 and refused the post of prime minister offered to him by the junta. He died on 6 December 2003.

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