Alemu Sime Feyisa (

Amharic Amharic is an Ethio-Semitic language, which is a subgrouping within the Semitic branch of the Afroasiatic languages. It is spoken as a first language by the Amhara people, and also serves as a lingua franca for all other metropolitan populati ...

: አለሙ ስሜ ፈይሳ) is an Ethiopian politician who has been the Minister of Transport and Logistics since January 2023. Alemu was a deputy director of the

Metals and Engineering Corporation METEC (acronym for Metals and Engineering Corporation) is an Ethiopian arms industry, arms and machinery industry founded in 2010. It is the state largest military industrial complex, responsible for the production of military equipment and civi ...

(METEC) from 2019. Alemu is currently a member of

Prosperity Party The Prosperity Party (; ) is a political party in Ethiopia that was established on 1 December 2019 as a successor to the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. It is currently the ruling party of Ethiopia. ...

and previously the

Oromo Democratic Party The Oromo Democratic Party (, ODP), formerly known as the Oromo People's Democratic Organization, was a political party in Ethiopia, and part of the alliance with the Amhara National Democratic Movement, the South Ethiopian Peoples' Democrati ...

(ODPO).

Political positions

Alemu Sime was a member of

(ODPO) where he served in secretariat role. On 26 April 2019, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed appointed Alemu as deputy director of the

(METEC). After

EPRDF The Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF; ) was an ethnic federalist political coalition in Ethiopia that existed from 1989 to 2019. It consisted of four political parties: Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), Amhara ...

coalition dissolved, Alemu joined the

in 2019. In January 2023, he was elected as Minister of Transport and Logistics, succeeding Dagmawit Moges.

References

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