Tamrat Layne

Tamrat Layne
ታምራት ላይኔ
Tamrat in 1992
Prime Minister of Ethiopia
Interim
In office
6 June 1991 – 22 August 1995
PresidentMeles Zenawi
Preceded byTesfaye Dinka
Succeeded byMeles Zenawi
Personal details
Born1955 (age 68–69)
Addis Ababa, Ethiopian Empire
Political partyAmhara National Democratic Movement
Other political
affiliations
Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front

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]

  1. ^ Young, John (1996). "The Tigray and Eritrean Peoples Liberation Fronts: A History of Tensions and Pragmatism". Journal of Modern African Studies. 34 (1): 114. doi:10.1017/S0022278X00055221. JSTOR 161740. S2CID 153543164.