Following the downfall of the Derg in 1991, the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front seized power and began an ambitious project to bring members of the Mengistu regime to justice.

Sharaa’s plans for Syria risk repeating past rebel mistakes. Negotiated, inclusive constitutional reform is key to Syrian ...

In the 20th century, famine took place in areas where populations openly resisted the regime of the ... the ruthless leader of the Derg, a military junta that ruled Ethiopia for over a decade ...

Reforms aimed at transforming Ethiopia from a centrally planned economy to a market-oriented one were launched in 1991 after the overthrow of the former pro-Soviet Derg regime, boosting the overall ...

As the Ethiopian regime’s newly anointed chief propagandist ... Oromay’s thinly-veiled characterisations and blunt criticism of the Derg led to its swift ban after publication in 1983 ...

Bekele Mekonnen, an associate professor at the Ethiopian Fine Art School, stands as one of Ethiopia’s most revered ...

The Ethiopian government ... 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 ...

he compared the censorship of Ethiopia’s Derg with Vladimir Putin’s Russia where people have been jailed for calling a war a war. Mengistu’s regime purged thousands and thought little of ...

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.

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 ...

chief executive of the new Ethiopian Securities Exchange. Outside is a 50-metre tall pillar with a red star on top, built during the Marxist Derg regime that toppled the emperor and ushered in ...