What is Negasso Gidada?
{{Infobox President | image = | name = Negasso Gidada | native_name = ነጋሶ ጊዳዳ | native_name_lang = am | office = [[President of Ethiopia]] | primeminister = [[Meles Zenawi]] | vicepresident = | term_start = 22 August 1995 | term_end = 8 October 2001 | predecessor = [[Meles Zenawi]] {{Small|(acting)}} | successor = [[Girma Wolde-Giorgis]] | office1 = Member of the [[House of Peoples' Representatives]] for Dembidolo | term_start1 = 2005 | term_end1 = 2019 | birth_name = Negasso Gidada Solon | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1943|9|8}} | birth_place = [[Dembidolo]], [[Welega Province|Welega]], [[Ethiopian Empire]] | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2019|4|27|1943|9|8}} | death_place = [[Frankfurt]], [[Hesse]], [[Germany]] | spouse = [[Regina Abelt]] | party = [[Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front|EPRDF]] (until 22 June 2001)<br>[[Independent (politician)|Independent]] (2005–2019) }} {{Contains Ethiopic text}} '''Negasso Gidada Solon''' ({{Lang-am|ነጋሶ ጊዳዳ}} ''Nägaso Gidada''; 8 September 1943 – 27 April 2019) was an [[Ethiopia]]n politician. He served as the [[President of Ethiopia]] from 22 August 1995 until 8 October 2001. He was a member of the [[Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front]] (EPRDF) before becoming [[Independent (politician)|independent]]. He was later a member of the [[House of Peoples' Representatives]] for [[Dembidolo]] from 2005. Gidada was born in Dembidolo. He was married to [[Germans|German-born]] [[Regina Abelt]]. He died of an illness on 27 April 2019 in [[Frankfurt]], in the [[States of Germany|German state]] of [[Hesse]]. He was 75.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.iol.co.za/news/africa/former-ethiopian-president-negasso-gidada-dies-aged-75-22059981|title=Former Ethiopian president Negasso Gidada dies aged 75|publisher=IOL News|date=27 April 2019|access-date=28 April 2019}}</ref> ==References== {{Reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Negasso Gidada}} [[Category:1943 births]] [[Category:2019