Now finally published in the UK, Baalu Girma’s novel Oromay follows a TV journalist as he navigates Ethiopia’s political ...

A year later, the country's imperial government was overthrown by the Derg communist regime, paving the way for Mengistu's rule. Getty Images In 2008, Ethiopia sentenced Mengistu Haile Mariam to ...

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 ...

Famine had once again taken hold in Ethiopia, this time in the midst of the rule of Mengistu Haile Mariam. Mengistu was the ruthless leader of the Derg, a military junta that ruled Ethiopia for ...

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 ...

In Ethiopia, there is an ethnic undercurrent as well. The regime is dominated by the Tigrayans, who defeated the Derg, which the country's Amhara, more numerous and historically the country's ...

Ethiopian Sirak Asfaw ... his home country in 1978 to escape the political repression of the Communist government, or Derg, which had come to power in 1974. The regime unleashed a wave of violence ...