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Ethiopia

Haile Selassie

Date of Birth: 23 July 1892
Place of Birth: Ejarsa Gora, Harage Province, near Harar, Ethiopia
Died: 27 August 1975


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An imperial palace in the Yeka hills

Haile Selassie I was Ethiopia's 225th and last emperor serving from 1930 until he was overthrown in a putsch in 1974 in which Mengistu Haile Mariam played a leading role...

Haile Selassie I traced his line back to Menelik I who claimed to be the child of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba...

The palace of Emperor Haile Selassie I now home to President Sahle-Work Zewde is to be turned into an artefacts and automobile museum...


How the Wellega war threatens Abiy

The church was synonymous with the Ethiopian state during the imperial era that ended with overthrow of Emperor Haile Selassie in 1974...


No jaw, jaw – just war, war

The Prime Minister the source said believes he will be able to emulate Ras Teferi (later Emperor Haile Selassie) in winning the Battle of Segale in 1916...


Dry times for a quick election

Excoriated by Western liberals (but admired by ‘realist’ diplomats) Meles neither excites nor appals many Ethiopians; nor is he seen as especially authoritarian compared to his predecessors Derg leader Mengistu Haile Mariam and Emperor Haile Selassie...


Royal echoes

The last Ethiopian leader to visit Britain was Haile Selassie in 1972...

Haile Selassie's trip coincided with a disastrous Ethiopian famine; two years later he was overthrown...


Hands across the water

The Addis Ababa-Washington axis is in better shape than for more than 25 years probably since the hey-days of Emperor Haile Selassie in the 1960s...


Power to the provinces

Marginalised under both Emperor Haile Selassie and the Dergue Gambella has come to life politically and economically...


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