Mini Facts
This city is the capital of Ethiopia.
What is Addis Ababa?
This military junta overthrew Emperor Haile Selassie.
What is the Derg?
This country gained independence following the conflict.
What is Eritrea?
Ethiopia's calendar contains this many months.
What is 13?
This campaign targeted political opponents through arrests, torture, and executions.
What is the Red Terror?
This BBC reporter brought worldwide attention to Ethiopia's famine in 1984.
Who is Michael Buerk?
Ethiopia is considered the birthplace of this popular beverage.
What is coffee?
This year marked the beginning of the Ethiopian Civil War.
What is 1974?
About this many people died during the Ethiopian famine of the 1980s.
What is 7 million?
More than this many languages are spoken in Ethiopia.
More than 80
This man led the Derg during most of the Ethiopian Civil War.
Who is Mengistu Haile Mariam?
This organization helped provide famine relief to Ethiopians.
What is World Vision?
Ethiopia is the only African country that was never officially this.
What is colonized?
The Derg followed this political ideology.
What is Marxism-Leninism?
One of the major outcomes of the war (the creation of this worldwide Ethiopian community living outside the country).
What is the Ethiopian diaspora?