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 ...

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 ...

Ethiopia, Africa's oldest independent country ... fought a war to seize control of the government from a military junta. The party succeeded, which is how it came to be the leading member of ...

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 ...

Guinea's junta leader Mamadi Doumbouya has elevated himself to the rank of army general as the coup-hit West African country marked the creation of its all-powerful armed forces.

The death of deposed Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie on August ... "The day his death was announced, I received a phone call from the (ruling junta) Dergue office asking me to go to the office ...