Background
Abiye Abebe was born on July 8, 1916, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to the family of Liqa Mequas Abebe Atnaf Seggad as a Lij, son of a hereditary nobleman.
1954
From Left to right: United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold, Tsehafi Taezaz (Minister of the Pen) Wolde Giorgis Wolde Yohannes, Foreign Minister (later Prime Minister and Tsehafi Taezaz) Aklilu Haptewold, His Imperial Majesty Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, Leutenant General Abiye Abebe (husband of the late Princess Tsehai Haile Selassie), His Imperial Highness Prince Sahle Selassie.
1970
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Haile Selassie at the Ethiopian Parliament. To his right is Crown Prince Asfaw Wossen, to his left is Crown Princess Medferiashwork Abebe. Speaking at the rostrum is Abiye Abebe, President of the Senate, and seated at his right is Prime Minister Tsehafi Taezaz Aklilu Habte-wold.
1954
From Left to right: United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold, Tsehafi Taezaz (Minister of the Pen) Wolde Giorgis Wolde Yohannes, Foreign Minister (later Prime Minister and Tsehafi Taezaz) Aklilu Haptewold, His Imperial Majesty Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, Leutenant General Abiye Abebe (husband of the late Princess Tsehai Haile Selassie), His Imperial Highness Prince Sahle Selassie.
1967
Ethiopia
Prime Minister Aklilu Habte-Wold, his wife Colette Valade, and Leutenant General Abiye Abebe, President of the Senate.
1969
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Haile Selassie signs an act into law with Ras Mesfin Sileshi and Lieutenant General Abiye Abebe.
1970
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Haile Selassie at the Ethiopian Parliament. To his right is Crown Prince Asfaw Wossen, to his left is Crown Princess Medferiashwork Abebe. Speaking at the rostrum is Abiye Abebe, President of the Senate, and seated at his right is Prime Minister Tsehafi Taezaz Aklilu Habte-wold.
Holeta Genet, Oromia, Ethiopia
Abiye Abebe studied at the Holeta Military Academy.
Abiye Abebe was born on July 8, 1916, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to the family of Liqa Mequas Abebe Atnaf Seggad as a Lij, son of a hereditary nobleman.
Abiye Abebe studied at Holeta Military Academy.
In the Forties and Fifties, Abiye Abebe held the position of the Minister of Defence and later served as Minister of Justice and Minister of the Interior. He chaired the High National Security Commission in the course of the Ethiopian Revolution till his arrest through the Derg 16 July 1974. He was a Chief of the General Staff when he was arrested.
According to John Spencer, when Prime Minister Aklilu Habte-Wold sought to resign his position in 1973, he recommended to the Emperor Abiye for the post. However, Abiye consented to accepring the duties of Prime Minister on condition that his nomination, and those of his cabinet, have been approved through the Ethiopian parliament, a circumstance Emperor Haile Selassie found unacceptable. As a result, Haile Selassie determined to appoint Endelkachew Makonnen Prime Minister instead. Abiye was one of 60 former government officials executed the night of 22–23 November at Akaki Central Prison by the Derg.
Abiye Abebe was like most of the Ethiopian nobility a member of the Ethiopian Orthodox church.
Abiye Abebe was an active participant of the Ethiopian political life in the mid and second half of the 20ts century.
Abiye Abebe is remembered as an honest person with a strong sense of duty.
Abiye Abebe was married three times. At Addis Ababa, on 26 April 1942, he married Princess Tsehai of Ethiopia who died in childbirth a year later. In 1946, he married Woizero Amarech Nasibu, and then later to Woizero Tsige, his widow.