Semere Russom

Infobox Eritrea Cabinet official


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name=Semere Russom
order=2nd
office=Minister of Education
term_start=2007-04-18
term_end="present"
predecessor=Osman Saleh
successor=
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party=PFDJ
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Semere Russom (born 1943-07-27) began his professional life as a teacher. He traveled to the United States as a student at the University of Oklahoma, but terminated his studies in 1976 to serve in the Eritrean People's Liberation Front. [cite web|url=http://www.glocalforumus.org/conference/images/speakers/pdfs/semere_hadera.pdf|title=Semere Hadera|accessdate=2007-01-12]

After Eritrea's independence he served as Eritrean ambassador to the United States and Canada. Afterwards he continued his career in public service as Director of European Affairs in the Eritrea Ministry of Foreign Affairs until 2001. [cite news|last=Last |first=Alex|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/1574910.stm|title=Eritrea plays down diplomatic row|date=2001-10-02|publisher=BBC|accessdate=2007-01-12]

On 2002-01-01 he left the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to become the Mayor of Asmara and the Administrator of the Central Region of Eritrea. In April 2007 he was appointed to head the Ministry of Education while continuing service as the Mayor and Administrator of Asmara, and the Central Region respectively. [cite news|url=http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/B601503.htm|title=Eritrea appoints new foreign affairs minister|accessdate=2007-04-18]

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