Tesfaye Dinka
| Tesfaye Dinka | |
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| Finance Minister | |
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In office 1983–1986 |
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| Preceded by | Teferra Wolde-Semait |
| Succeeded by | Bekele Tamrat |
| Foreign Minister | |
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In office 1989–1991 |
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| Preceded by | Birhanu Bayeh |
| Succeeded by | Tesfaye Tadesse |
| Prime Minister | |
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In office 1991–1991 |
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| Preceded by | Hailu Yimenu |
| Succeeded by | Tamrat Layne |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
3 November 1939 Ambo, Ethiopian Empire |
| Died | 6 December 2016 (aged 77) Fairfax, Virginia, U.S. |
| Alma mater |
Syracuse University American University of Beirut |
| Religion | Ethiopian Orthodox |
Tesfaye Dinka Yadessa was Minister of Finance (1983-1986), Minister of Foreign Affairs (1989–1991), and Prime Minister (26 April – 6 June 1991) of Ethiopia. He was the head of the delegation of the Ethiopian Government during the London Conference of 1991 which aimed to end the Ethiopian Civil War.
Born in 1939, in Ambo, Tesfaye was an ethnic Oromo. He did his elementary education in Ambo, and then attended the General Wingate Secondary School in Addis Ababa. He did his BA from the American University of Beirut, and an MBA and MSc in Industrial Engineering from Syracuse University.
He was a leading member of the regime of Mengistu Haile Mariam and alternate member of the Politburo of the Workers' Party of Ethiopia. Prior to his appointment as Prime Minister, Tesfaye served in various ministerial posts, successively as Acting Minister of National Resources Development, Minister of Industry, Finance, and Foreign Affairs; he also served as Deputy Prime Minister of the People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia. He was the member of Mengistu’s civilian high-level officials with no blood on his hand. He was a technocrat and had no say on Mengistu’s monumental decision such as the infamous collectivization program of the mid-80s which uprooted thousands peasants from the northern part of the country and resettled them in the southern and western part of Ethiopia. Tesfaye Dinka is considered by many to have been a moderate member of the Mengistu regime, and part of the faction of government officials who advised Mengistu to negotiate with the Eritrean People's Liberation Front (EPLF) and the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF).
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