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 ...

He was himself disabled by a leg injury during conflict with the Marxist regime known as the Derg, which ruled Ethiopia from 1974 to 1991. "When I see a patient come with crutches and leave with ...

The Ethiopian government ... the latter was the internationally supported trial of officials of the previous Derg regime for crimes against humanity, an initiative once lauded as a major strike ...

16 A Sudan-based insurgent group led by a former Derg official named Thuwath Pal Chay, the Ethiopian Patriotic United Front (EPUF), has also been active in the region. 17 The EPUF has ...

and Ethiopia's cultural and traditional ways and means resumed. In more recent times, Derg's accession to power was evidence of the withdrawal of traditionalism, favoring innovation. The extreme ...

Ethiopia has not had any form of stock exchange in 50 years, since the 1974 fall of Emperor Haile Selassie and the rise of a Marxist-inspired regime, known as the Derg, which nationalised the economy.

Ethiopia retains the Julian calendar and usually ... The 57 year old premier assumed power after toppling former Mengistu Haile Mariam led Derg regime in 1991 and since ruled the east African ...