Lomi Bedo Kumbi is an Ethiopian politician. She has been serving as Deputy Speaker of the House of Peoples' Representatives since 2021.

Lomi Bedo
Deputy Speaker of the House of Peoples' Representatives
Assumed office
4 October 2021
SpeakerTagesse Chafo
Personal details
PartyProsperity Party
OccupationPolitician

Career

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Bedo was elected and sworn in Deputy Speaker of the House of Peoples' Representatives on 4 October 2021 after the 2021 general election.[1][2] She is the supervisor of the Women Parliamentary Caucus.[3]

In February 2022, Bedo and Gayo Asherbiri were elected members of the Ethiopian delegation to the Pan African Parliament.[4]

She visited the Parliament of South Africa through a UN Women mission in July 2023.[3] In October 2025, Bedo described Ethiopia's exclusion from access to the Red Sea as a “historic mistake” and called on the citizens to support the Ethiopian government's diplomatic efforts to secure that access to the sea.[5]

In March 2026 she visited India at the head of a delegation of 32 female deputies where she met with Minister Jitendra Singh Rana in New Delhi as part of a training programme on women's leadership organised by the National Centre for Good Governance.[6]

References

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  1. "Tagese Chafo Re-elected as Speaker of Newly Formed House of Peoples' Representative". Ethiopian News Agency. 4 October 2021. Retrieved 9 April 2026.
  2. "Ethiopia's March to Prosperity with Renewed Hope, New Government". Ethiopian News Agency. Retrieved 9 April 2026.
  3. 1 2 "UN Women Ethiopia together with House of People's Representatives of Ethiopia conducted experience sharing mission to the South African Parliament". UN Women. 27 July 2023. Retrieved 9 April 2026.
  4. "Ethiopia's Parliament elects Hon. Bedo Kumbi and Hon. Ashebir Gayo into PAP". African Parliamentary News. 1 February 2022. Retrieved 9 April 2026.
  5. "HPR Describes Ethiopia's Exclusion from the Red Sea as a Historical Mistake". Ethiopian News Agency. 31 October 2025. Retrieved 9 April 2026.
  6. "Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh interacts with a delegation of women parliamentarians from Ethiopia; shares some of India's globally acknowledged best practices in governance". Press Information Bureau. 11 March 2026. Retrieved 9 April 2026.