Mesfin Hagos

This is an Eritrean name. The last name is a patronymic, not a family name; this person is referred to by the given name Mesfin.
Mesfin Hagos
2nd Minister of Defence
In office
1994–1995
Preceded byPetros Solomon
Succeeded bySebhat Ephrem
Personal details
Born (1947-11-21) November 21, 1947 (age 77)
Azien, British Military Administration (Eritrea)[1]
Political partyPFDJ

Mesfin Hagos (born 1947) is an Eritrean who was one of the founding members of the Eritrean People's Liberation Front (EPLF).[2] In government, he was the Eritrean Minister of Defense during the 1990s.[3]

After repression by president Isaias Afwerki against Mesfin's colleagues, Mesfin fled Eritrea in 2001 and sought political asylum in Germany in 2013,[4] where he lived as of December 2020.[3]

  1. ^ Killion, Tom (1998). Historical Dictionary of Eritrea. ISBN 0-8108-3437-5.
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