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Teshome Toga

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Teshome Toga Chanaka
ተሾመ ቶጋ

Ambassador to Ghana
In office 1992–1993
Ambassador to Egypt
In office 1993–1996
Member of House of Federation
In office 1995–2010
Ambassador to Kenya and Tanzania
In office 1996–2001
Speaker of the House of People's Representatives
In office 10 October 2005 – 3 October 2010
Preceded by	Dawit Yohannes
Succeeded by	Abadula Gemeda
Ambassador to Belgium
In office 2013–2019
Ambassador to China
In office 2019–present

Personal details
Born	Teshome Toga Chanaka (1968-04-23) 23 April 1968 (age 56) Dimtu, Ethiopia

Teshome Toga Chanaka (Amharic: ተሾመ ቶጋ; born 23 April 1968) is an Ethiopian politician and second Speaker of the House of Peoples' Representatives, the lower chamber of the Ethiopian Parliament, from 2005 to 2010. He was succeeded by Abadula Gemeda.

Background

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Teshome was born in Dimtu, Ethiopia, and completed his primary education in Bilate Tena Primary school. He was born into a farmer family, and used to help his family after school: by herding cattle and plowing. Teshome completed his secondary school in Sodo. After completing his secondary education, he attended Addis Ababa University in 1987.^{[citation needed]}

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Teshome has worked in different levels of power from districttoregional level in Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region, before becoming the Speaker of the House of Peoples' Representatives. Most of his governmental positions were being an ambassador of Ethiopia in different counties. Being stationed in Ghana (1992–93), Egypt (1993-1996), Kenya and Tanzania (1996-2001), Belgium (2013-2019),^[1] and currently in China (2019-)^[2]

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