She had previously served Minister of Irrigation and Lowland Areas Development from 6 October 2021.

She previously served as Minister of Construction and Urban Development from 18 April 2019 to 6 October 2021.

Aisha Mohammed is a Muslim from the country's Afar Region in the north east Ethiopia.

[1][2] She has a degree in Civil Engineering and a masters in Transformational Leadership and Change.

[6][7] She was appointed Defence Minister by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on 16 October 2018, one of ten women appointed to the twenty member cabinet, making Ethiopia and Rwanda the only African countries to have equal gender representation in their cabinets.