Tamrat layne biography of barack obama

Prime Minister of Ethiopia from 1991 to 1995

In this Ethiopian name, the name Layne Admassu is a patronymic, and the person should be referred by the given name, Tamrat.

Tamrat Layne Admassu (Ge'ez: ታምራት ላይኔ አድማሱ; born 1955) is an Ethiopian former politician who served as the Prime Minister of Ethiopia during the Transitional Government of Ethiopia after the end of the Derg regime.

Previously during the 1980s, he was a leader of the Ethiopian People's Democratic Movement (the forerunner of the Amhara National Democratic Movement), one of the groups that fought against Ethiopian dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam in the Ethiopian Civil War.^[1]

Biography

Tamrat Layne was born in 1955 and raised by a single mother in Addis Ababa.^[2][3] He led the Ethiopian People's Democratic Movement during the 1980s, fighting against Mengistu Haile Mariam in the Ethiopian Civil War.

In an interview in 1988, he acknowledged that the goals of his moveme