Under the authoritarian regime of President Mohamed Siad Barre, the Somali National ... Ethiopia led to a military coup against Emperor Haile Selassie, creating a power vacuum and a civil war ...

The film presents a news report on Ethiopia's response to the fall of the holy city of Axum, highlighting Emperor Haile Selassie's leadership and the religious fervor among his followers.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Leader of the Opposition Mark Golding visited Haile Selassie High on Tuesday to offer his support to the school community following last week’s murder of 14-year-old Price ...

Maren Haile-Selassie exceeded all expectations during his first season with the Chicago Fire, leading the squad with six goals as he adjusted to Major League Soccer in 2023. The Swiss winger ...

Haile Selassie was known as a child as Lij Tafari Makonnen. Lij is translated as "child" and serves to indicate that a youth is of noble blood. His given name Tafari means "one who is respected or ...

On September 12, 1974, the Derg, a group of Marxist military officers, overthrew Emperor Haile Selassie, head of a dynasty that ... In July 1977, Somali dictator Siad Barre invaded Ethiopia’s ...

In the end, the record may be showing us that African military coups ultimately end in disaster; the coups that brought the regimes of Amin (Uganda), Samuel Doe (Liberia), Juvénal Habyarimana (Rwanda) ...

Fifty years ago the Marxist-Leninist military junta known as the Derg took control of Ethiopia, toppling Emperor Haile Selassie and ending a monarchy that had governed the country for 700 years.