Ermias Woldeamlak, seen visiting the Red Terror Martyrs Memorial Museum, lost three brothers to the repression - Copyright AFP Michele Spatari Ermias Woldeamlak, seen ...
Exactly 50 years ago, on September 12, 1974, Ethiopia's last emperor, Haile Selassie, was deposed after 44 years in power. A popular uprising and series of nationwide strikes put an end to the ...
The many victims of the brutal communist military dictatorship that ruled Ethiopia from 1974 to 1991, known as the Derg, had a rare victory this week. On December 15, former Ethiopian government ...
book reviewBy Siegfried Pausewang, Kjetil Tronvoll, and Lovise Aalen, Editors Ethiopia Since the Derg: A Decade of Democratic Pretension and Performance, Siegfried Pausewang, Kjetil Tronvoll, and ...
The government of Ethiopia and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), the separatist group fighting for the independence of Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region, each announced earlier in the week ...
Mulugeta Bekele is almost single-handedly responsible for having kept Ethiopian physics going in the 1970s and 1980s despite being imprisoned and tortured by the Ethiopian military. Robert P Crease ...
This week, Ethiopia is commemorating its national day with an exhibition celebrating the country’s economic progress. More than 140 companies—some state-owned, some private—have set up displays in ...
Two convicted Ethiopian war criminals are likely to finally leave the Italian embassy in the capital, Addis Ababa, after taking refuge there for almost 30 years. Berhanu Bayeh and Addis Tedla, two ...