Neamin zeleke biography for kids

By Rebecca Tan – September 12, 2018 at 6:00 AM – published on the Washington Post

WASHINGTON — The last time Neamin Zeleke saw home was in 1986. He was 16, dressed in his only suit, waiting for a plane in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, that would take him to the United States for high school.

With a repressive communist regime running his country, he never returned.

Neamin zeleke biography for kids

Instead, he settled in the Washington suburbs and remained there as the decades passed and the old dictatorship was replaced by a new one. He raised a family in Virginia and lost contact with relatives at home.

Then in February, after three years of mounting unrest, Ethiopia’s prime minister resigned.

Abiy Ahmed, an outspoken 42-year-old reformer, took office. Since then, there has been a wave of stunning change.

Abiy has lift