Kuma Demeksa Tokon

Kuma Demeksa Tokon ( Amharic ኩማ ደመቅሳ ; * 1958 in the Oromia region ) is an Ethiopian politician and diplomat .

Life

He was born to Amharic parents. He attended elementary and secondary school in Gore in the Illubabor zone . In the early 1970s, he joined an elite police force. He was promoted to captain after the 1974 revolution and the Derg seizure of power . As a member of the police elite, he was deployed in Eritrea , where he was captured by the Eritrean People's Liberation Front (EPLF). In 1981 he was extradited to the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF). He joined the Democratic Movement of the Ethiopian People (EPDM). In 1990 he left the EPDM and was one of the founders of the Democratic Organization of the Oromo People (OPDO). The OPDO, of which he was temporarily secretary general, belongs to the Revolutionary Democratic Front of the Ethiopian Peoples (EPRDF).

From 1991 to 1995 he was Interior Minister in the Ethiopian transitional government formed by the EPRDF. From 1995 to July 2001 he was President of the Oromia region in Ethiopia. He was dismissed in the course of political disputes in the TPLF, with allegations of corruption, abuse of power and anti-democratic practices. In 2002, he earned a degree in public administration at the University of New Mexico in the United States . In 2003 he became Minister for Capacity Building in the Ethiopian Government, from 2005 to 2008 as Minister of Defense. In 2008, he obtained a Master of Arts in organizational management from the US Azusa Pacific University . In 2008 he took over the office of mayor of the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa until he became a minister again in 2013.

In 2015 he left the government and was accredited as Ethiopian Ambassador to Germany on April 24, 2015, based in Berlin . On May 3, 2016, he received his secondary accreditation in the Czech Republic . There are further secondary accreditations in Slovakia and Ukraine .

Personal

Kuma Demeksa Tokon is married for the second time and has seven children, three children from the first marriage and four from the second marriage. He speaks Amharic , English and Oromo .

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Individual evidence

personal data
SURNAME	Demeksa Tokon, Kuma
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	ኩማ ደመቅሳ (Amharic)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Ethiopian politician and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH	1958
PLACE OF BIRTH	Oromia region

[1] WikiLeaks: Ethiopia Kuma Demeksa, an opportunistic 50-year old party loyalist of September 5, 2011 on nazret.com, report of the US Embassy of May 22, 2008 (English)

[2] DIPLOMATIC LIST of September 23, 2016, page 11 (English)

[3] DIPLOMATICKÁ LISTINA , page 59 (Slovak)

[4] Посольства в Украине (Ukrainian)