Imperial Family of Ethiopia

[Kasumi]

A new Sultan of Ethiopia's Afar people has been enthroned in November 2011.
He is Hanfareh Ali Mirah, the son of the late Sultan Ali Mirah Hanfareh. Sultan Hanfareh served as regional president of the Afar region in post Derg Ethiopia, and as Ethiopian ambassador to Kuwait.
New Sultan Hanfareh unlike his father has enjoyed warm relations with the current Ethiopian government.

Both spiritual and traditional leader to the two million Afar people who live in a triangle shape region between Eritrea, Ethiopia and Djibouti, the sultan will assume important responsibilities at both regional and national levels, Aramis Houmed, advisor to the new sultan, told Addis Journal.He said the appointment will make the process of succession smoother and more orderly.While traditional leaders hold few constitutional powers, they continue to exert significant influence, the advisor said.They are seen as custodians of both religion and tradition.

Hanfreh Ali Mirah, aged 60, is a member of the most powerful family group in Afar, and one of the sons of sultan Ali Mirah, the spiritual chief of the Afars and founder of the Afar Liberation Front (ALF). The move follows the death last April of Sultan Ali Mirah. Thousands of members of the Afar community, clan leaders and elders from Ethiopia, Eritrea and Djibouti, representative of the federal government of Ethiopia and Djibouti, and diplomatic corpses in Addis Ababa are expected to participate in the historic rites and wish the new sultan well. Another of heir to the sultanate, Habib Ali Mirah who at times has been at loggerhead with older brother will also be attending the event.

Born in 1951, Mirah along with his father fought in the guerrilla war against Mengistu Haile Mariam and later joined forces with the EPRDF collation, which came to power in 1991. When the new Afar region was set up in 1992, Mirah joined his father as an administrator of the Afar region set up in 1992 and later served as president of the Afar regional State (1995-96). He has been the leader of a faction of the Afar regional Front since 1996. He also served as ambassador of Ethiopia to Kuwait.

More than one millions Afar lives in Ethiopia. Theses nomadic peoples are organized into the four Sultanates of Tadjourha (Djibouti), Rahaital (Eritrea and Djibouti), Baylul (Eritrea) and Aussa (Ethiopia). The 14th Sultan of Aussa will be coroneted in the traditional procedure.

Ethiopia: New sultan to be crowned in Afar « ethiopiantimes

Intronisation dun Sultan Hanfareh Ali-Mirah 385.mpg - YouTube

[Warren]

A message received by the Administrators from Bishop Doye Agama of the Apostolic Congress of Great Britain...

Prince Ermias Sahle-Selassie Haile-Selassie, President of the Crown Council of Ethiopia will visit the UK in October 2012.

Accompanied by his wife Lady Saba Kebede, Prince Ermias will attend receptions and meetings with Parliamentarians, Church and Civic Leaders in London before visiting Manchester. There Prince Ermias and Lady Saba will be guests of the Lord Mayor and the Bishop of Manchester.
The visit will include a special ecumenical service at Manchester Cathedral on 13th October which will also be attended by the Lord Lieutenant.

[CyrilVladisla]

I like these powerful words spoken by Haile Selassie I:

A father should bequeath not only wealth but also provide proper education. Education has value when it is established in individuals of good character with respect to God.

[Cory]

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/10/13/fashion/weddings/she-met-her-prince-the-great-grandson-of-haile-selassie.html?mc=adintl&mcid=keywee&mccr=intmob&ad-keywords=IntlAudDev&kwp_0=648416&kwp_4=2306051&kwp_1=970105&referer=http://m.facebook.com/

[Ilse]

Originally Posted by Cory

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[Cory]

Originally Posted by Ilse

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It opens to me.

[Lee-Z]

Originally Posted by Ilse

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For me it worked when copying the url in a browser, but here's a direct hyperlink
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/10/1....facebook.com/

[Ilse]

Originally Posted by Lee-Z

For me it worked when copying the url in a browser, but here's a direct hyperlink
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/10/1....facebook.com/

Thank you!

And Cory your links never work! Look in the Romanian topic also.

[Cory]

Originally Posted by Ilse

Thank you!

And Cory your links never work! Look in the Romanian topic also.

I would never put a link that does not work.

[LadyRohan]

Originally Posted by Cory

I would never put a link that does not work.

You just did, when not linking it correctly. Thanks Lee-Z for sorting it out.

Lovely to see the photos of their wedding, knowing that the imperial family thrives and is very respected still both inside and outside of Ethiopia.

[Cory]

Originally Posted by CyrilVladisla

I like these powerful words spoken by Haile Selassie I:

A father should bequeath not only wealth but also provide proper education. Education has value when it is established in individuals of good character with respect to God.

He was the one who really built modern Ethiopia. Let's hope he could be an inspiration to his descendants.

There is a reaction of the Imperial Family to the crisis in the country:

http://www.ethiopiancrown.org

[LadyFinn]

His Imperial Highness Prince Ermias Sahle-Selassie Haile-Selassie, President of the Crown Council of Ethiopia, and his wife, HIH Princess Saba Kabede, visited Stockholm, Sweden, during March 2017. Prince Ermias was invested on March 24, 2017, by Princess Marianne Bernadotte with a Stockholm Cultural Award. Other Awards were presented to Gergey Boganyi (the Hungarian Concert Pianist), Rosemary Forbes Butler (the English opera singer), and Carola Haggkvist (the famous Swedish vocalist). The event took place at the House of Nobles.
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Their Imperial Highnesses also had a private audience with Their Majesties King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden and Queen Silvia, recalling the friendship between the grandfathers of Prince Ermias and King Carl Gustaf, His Imperial Majesty Emperor Haile Selassie I and His Majesty King Gustaf VI Adolf.

While in Stockholm, Prince Ermias also addressed a Parliamentary group in the Riksdag.
The Crown Council of Ethiopia

[eya]

Princess Sara, daughter-in-law of Emperor Haile Selassie has died at the age of 90

https://www.historyofroyalwomen.com/...the-age-of-90/

Video from the funeral

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaXDywATRwo

[LadyFinn]

Roger Lundgren, the editor-in-chief of swedish royal magazine Kungliga Magasinet, has met prince Ermias.
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bu6k1cWBTOC/

[Jacknch]

An interesting article from the BBC about an 18th century crown belonging to Ethiopia that has been hidden secretly in the Netherlands for 21 years:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-49904228

[princeofitaly]

Originally Posted by Cakobau

The Imperial family claims descendency from the child of the biblical King Solomon of Israel and Queen Makeda of Sheba (modern day Ethiopia).

I read it.

I don't know who are the members of this great family today. Where they live? In what Country?

I read an interesting article about the daughter of Hailé Selassié that was kidnapped by Mussolini in the 1940s years of the past century.

Here the article in italian:

https://www.ilrisveglio-online.it/ar...-nessuno-lo-sa

[Blog Real]

Princess Medferiash Work Abebe, later Empress and Crown Prince Merid Azmatch Asfa Wossen, later proclaimed Amha Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia in exile.

https://c7.quickcachr.fotos.sapo.pt/...521_S4EtR.jpeg

[eya]

Prince Ermias Sahle Selassie had a private audience with Pope Francis at the Vatican on 20 May

https://scontent.fath3-4.fna.fbcdn.n...e1&oe=60CDEF44

[CyrilVladisla]

Emperor Haile Selassie I walking with a crowd in 1930
http://www.maryevans.com/history/13146506

[An Ard Ri]

The Family of Ethiopian Prince Alemayehu are looking for his remains to be repatriated ,the Prince a guest of Queen Victoria died in the UK in 1879 at the age of just 18.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-65588663