Parliament’s ratification this week of the keenly anticipated banking business proclamation marks a seminal moment for ...

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 ...

The government has barred the Ethiopian Human Rights Council (EHRCO) and the Ethiopian Human Rights Defenders Center (EHRDC), ...

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 ...

The boxy, blue cars were once omnipresent in Addis Ababa and are still often spotted along its long avenues and alleyways.

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 ...

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 ...

The current constitution empowers the nations, nationalities, and peoples of Ethiopia with autonomy, ensuring that legal frameworks do not support oppression. While the Derg regime claimed to be a ...

It was exacerbated by the civil war between Ethiopia’s Soviet-aligned Derg regime and insurgent groups such as the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front supported by Western nations. Cold War ...