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 ...

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 ...

When I asked translator DeGusta why Baalu’s book had doubled as death warrant, he compared the censorship of Ethiopia’s Derg with Vladimir Putin’s Russia where people have been jailed for ...