He claims to be fighting a “war of liberation” that seeks to overthrow the EPRDF government and return Ethiopia to socialism. Human Rights Watch interview with Thuwath Pal Chay, Nairobi ...

Its hot-blooded communist revolutionaries, led by the autocrat Mengistu Haile Mariam, seized power from Emperor Haile Selassie and officially pronounced Ethiopia a socialist state in 1975.

Ethiopia, Africa's second most populous country with around 130 million people, had a securities exchange in the 1960s and 70s, but it was abolished by the socialist military government that ...