Key facts
- Prime minister
- Meles Zenawi
- Preceded by
- Meles Zenawi (Acting)
- Succeeded by
- Girma Wolde-Giorgis
- Born
- Negasso Gidada Solon , ( 1943-09-08 ) 8 September 1943, Dembidolo , Illubabor Province , Ethiopian Empire (now Oromia Region , Ethiopia )
- Died
- 27 April 2019 (2019-04-27) (aged 75), Frankfurt , Germany
- Resting place
- Petros Paulos Evangelic Church, Ethiopia, 9°03′21″N 38°42′50″E / 9.055757°N 38.71399°E / 9.055757; 38.71399
- Party
- EPRDF (until 22 June 2001), Independent (2005–2008), Unity for Democracy and Justice under Coalition of Medrek (2009–2019)
- Spouse
- Regina Abelt ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1985 )
- Children
- Ibsa Negasso Telile Negasso
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Ethiopia
- Place of birth
- Dembi Dollo
- Place of death
- Frankfurt
- Occupation
- minister
- Educated at
- Goethe University Frankfurt
- Employer
- Addis Ababa University
- Political party
- Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front
- Languages spoken
- Oromo
- Religion
- Protestantism
- Image
- Negasso Gidada.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1943-09-03
- name in native language
- ነጋሶ ጊዳዳ
- date of death
- 2019-04-27
- cause of death
- disease
- P10632
- Negasso Gidada
- manner of death
- natural causes
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Encyclopedic overview
Negasso Gidada Solon (Ge'ez: ነጋሶ ጊዳዳ; 8 September 1943 – 27 April 2019) was an Ethiopian politician who was the president of Ethiopia from 1995 until 2001.
Biography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Negasso Gidada” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.