Assefa Abiyo (

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 ...

: አሰፋ አቢዮ) is an Ethiopian politician who was the commissioner general of the

Ethiopian Federal Police The Ethiopian Federal Police (EFP; ) is the law enforcement agency of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia. Established in 1995, the agency aims with objectives of maintaining or safeguarding the public security, human and democratic rights ...

(EFP) from 2012 to 2018.

Tenure

In May 2017, Assefa stated that

Ethiopia Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country located in the Horn of Africa region of East Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the north, Djibouti to the northeast, Somalia to the east, Ken ...

and

Sudan Sudan, officially the Republic of the Sudan, is a country in Northeast Africa. It borders the Central African Republic to the southwest, Chad to the west, Libya to the northwest, Egypt to the north, the Red Sea to the east, Eritrea and Ethiopi ...

signed agreement to strengthen their law enforcement peace and security.{{Cite web , last=SudanTribune , date=2017-05-08 , title=Ethiopia and Sudanese police sign cooperation accord , url=https://sudantribune.com/article60589/ , access-date=2024-11-14 , website=Sudan Tribune , language=en-US In March 2018, Assefa announced the EFP has tackled illegal arms trafficking during

state of emergency A state of emergency is a situation in which a government is empowered to put through policies that it would normally not be permitted to do, for the safety and protection of its citizens. A government can declare such a state before, during, o ...

following nationwide protests.

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21st-century Ethiopian politicians Ethiopian government officials Year of birth missing (living people) Living people