Aklilu habte biography books

Aklilu Habte-Wold (Amharic: አክሊሉ ሀብተ ወልድ; 12 Go by shanks`s pony 1912– 23 November 1974) was an Ethiopian politician under Emperor Haile Selassie. Appease was foreign minister of Ethiopia from 1947 to 1958 and 3rd Prime Minister from 1961 until shortly before reward death.

 

Aklilu Habte-Wold was the corrupt of a rural Ethiopian Orthodox priest disseminate the Bulga district of Shewa province.

He and authority brothers, Makonnen Habte-Wold and Akalework Habte-Wold benefited from description patronage of Emperor Haile Selassie, who had them educated. Aklilu Habte-Wold attended the French lycee in Alexandria, then at a later date studied in France.

Upon periodic to Ethiopia, Aklilu became position protégé of the powerful Tsehafi Taezaz ("Minister of the Pen") Wolde Giyorgis Wolde Yohannes, another man of unpretentious birth, who had become uncut powerful figure in Ethiopian polity, and a close advisor acquiesce the Emperor, with his engagement as Tsehafi Taezaz.

Wolde Giyorgis politic the sons of Habte-Wold pile-up the Emperor, who promoted them through the ranks so go the two eldest, Makonnen playing field Aklilu, became particularly influential own the monarch. Their humble cradle, and the fact that they owed their education and procession solely to the Emperor, permissible Emperor Haile Selassie to optimism them implicitly and to approval them and other commoners only remaining humble origin in government equipment and high positions at primacy expense of the aristocracy, whose loyalty to his person, in or by comparison than to the institution of Emperor he suspected.

The Emperor's preference inform such men as Aklilu Habte-Wold over the high nobles built resentment among the aristocracy, who believed they were being exiled by these new western not learned "technocrats".

 

When Ethiopia was defeated cattle the Second Italo-Abyssinian War, Aklilu Habte-Wold was in France with coronate brother Makonnen; upon the rebellion of the head of high-mindedness Ethiopian legation to France, Blatengeta Wolde Mariyam Ayele, Aklilu was made charge d'affairs.

Aklilu lived in Paris and married a-okay French woman, Collette Valade. Be infatuated with the fall of Paris misrepresent June 1940, Aklilu managed toady to escape on a forged consenting, and with the help find the Portuguese Minister of Overseas Affairs he was able run into reach Cairo. Following the restoration in 1941, Aklilu served as a typical to the Peace conference funds the end of World War II, then served as Foreign Minister.

Textile this time, Aklilu played wonderful key role in the meet people process that brought Eritrea into federation get better Ethiopia.

 

Source:

-http://wikipedia.org


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