2012 in Ethiopia

Incumbents

• President: Girma Wolde-Giorgis
• Prime Minister: Meles Zenawi, Hailemariam Desalegn

Events

January

• 17 January – Unknown assailants kill 2 Hungarians, 2 Germans and an Austrian in northeastern Ethiopia.
• 25 January – A truck bomb detonates at an Ethiopian military base in Somalia.
• 28 January – The African Union opens its new headquarters in Addis Ababa.

August

• 20 August – Prime Minister Meles Zenawi died in Brussels and succeeded by Hailemariam Desalegn.

September

• 2 September – Meles' state funeral took place in Addis Ababa and inhumed at Holy Trinity Cathedral Church.

Deaths

• 10 February – Sebhat Gebre-Egziabher, 75, writer.
• 10 April – Afewerk Tekle, 79, artist.