Known as the “Butcher of Addis,” Mengistu was the leader of the Derg, a military junta that ruled Ethiopia from 1974 to 1991 and carried out a brutal campaign of repression called the “Red ...

An old friend of Sally Dawit describes her time as a revolutionary during the rule of Ethiopia’s military government. During the rule of the Derg, Ethiopia’s military government, anyone who ...

took power in Ethiopia, having defeated the Derg military dictatorship after almost two decades of civil war. The Derg had presided over one of the darkest periods in recent Ethiopian history ...

In modern Ethiopia, it is the womb of Ethiopia," Mr ... "They [the TPLF] were in the war with Eritrea, and the struggle against the Derg. So they have enough experience. By its nature, war needs ...

Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie was overthrown in a revolution in 1974. A military junta known as the Derg seized power. It inflicted the infamous "Red Terror", when tens of thousands of young ...

He was himself disabled by a leg injury during conflict with the Marxist regime known as the Derg, which ruled Ethiopia from ...

Since the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church's separation from the state, it has been losing members, notably to Protestant ...