After the fall of the Derg , he took formal military training from Assefa Brigade in West Wollega and was stationed there . His military post was in intelligence and communications . Later on he became a soldier in the now Ethiopian National Defense Force in 1993 and worked mostly in the intelligence and communications departments . In 1995 , after the Rwandan genocide , he was deployed as a member of the United Nations Peace Keeping Force ( UNAMIR ) , Kigali , Rwanda . In the Ethio-Eritrea War between 1998 and 2000 , he led an intelligence team to discover positions of the Eritrean Defence Forces
Rwandan genocide
Rwandan genocide
Abiy Ahmed