Goshu Wolde
Goshu Wolde (born 1942) is a former Ethiopian Foreign Minister and worked as minister of education, of Ethiopia from 1983 to 1986. Wolde, formerly a foreign minister under Mengistu, resigned the Mengistu government in 1986, by sending his resignation letter from New York City to Ethiopian Head of State Mengistu Haile Mariam, stating dictatorship, cruelty and deterioration of Revolution in his letter, and established himself in United States in opposition to the Mengistu Government In the year 1992, Wolde founded the Ethiopian Medhin Democratic Party, in Washington D.C. He made a famous speech to the US Senate Committee for Foreign Affairs in 1991 and that speech is still shared and discussed by millions of Ethiopians. Wolde was the leader of two foreign based group movements, the shadowy Free Soldiers Movement and the Ethiopian Movement for Democracy, Peace and Unity.
Goshu Wolde | |
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Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
In office 1983–1986 | |
Preceded by | Feleke Gedle-Giorgis |
Succeeded by | Berhanu Bayeh |
Personal details | |
Born | 1942 (age 81–82) Gore, Ethiopia |
Political party | COPWE WPE |
Other political affiliations | Ethiopian Medhin Democratic Party |
Education | Harar Military Academy Addis Ababa University (LL.B.) Yale Law School (LL.M.) |