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PaZimbabwe
April 27, 2018
Exiled and fallen Ethiopian autarch, Mengistu Haile Mariam, who is thought to have had an invisible hand in last November's Operation Restore Legacy, which was launched by the military to oust former leader, Robert Mugabe, has had his secret kingmaker powers in Zimbabwe increased following hisÃâà...
WLNS
April 19, 2018
Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky -- mahr-GOH'-leez mehz-VIHN'-skee. Joseph Margulies -- mahr-GOO'-lee-ez. Mengistu Haile Mariam -- mehn-JEE'-stoo HY'-lee mahr-ee'-am. Harry Markopolos -- mahr-KAHP'-uh-luhs. Mirjana Markovic -- meer-ee-YAH'-nah mahr-KOH'-vich. Diarmuid Martin -- DER'-muhd.
Jewish Policy Center (blog)
April 11, 2018
In 1977, Ethiopia's Marxist dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam banned Jewish immigration to Israel, necessitating efforts like Operation Moses that are known as “aliyah of rescue.” Life in Ethiopia was very simple for my family. We grew up in a small, modest village. There was no significance attached to higher education orÃâà...
Ahram Online
April 6, 2018
... of Mengistu Haile Mariam, the country's former Marxist ruler, in 1991. When the EPRDF came to power, he joined the army in 1993, reaching the rank of colonel and participating in UN peacekeeping missions in Rwanda where the latter country's ethnic groups of Hutus and Tutsis were fighting each other,Ãâà...
Deutsche Welle
March 29, 2018
While still a teenager, Abiy reportedly joined the resistance movement against the "Red Terror" regime of Mengistu Haile Mariam. After its demise he joined the Ethiopian army in 1993, where he first worked in the intelligence service and rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel. After the Rwandan genocide ofÃâà...
Daily Nation
March 24, 2018
Lee Njiru joined State House in 1976 aged 28 as President Jomo Kenyatta's information officer, thanks to the toppling of Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia by Mengistu Haile Mariam in 1974. Burning Spear, as Kenyatta was fondly referred to by his supporters, particularly held two world leaders of hisÃâà...
Deutsche Welle
December 11, 2017
One such hope is that Ethiopia's former Marxist-leaning leader Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam could finally be brought to justice. Mugabe gave Haile Mariam a residency permit after the latter fled Ethiopia in 1991. His motive for giving Haile Mariam refuge was thought to be to allow the Ethiopian ex-leaderÃâà...
Daily Nation
November 27, 2017
The change of guard in Zimbabwe may have been the unwanted thing in the life of Robert Mugabe. But another former African strongman may be facing an uncertain future as a result. For years, Robert Mugabe gave asylum and then protected Mengistu Haile Mariam, the Ethiopian dictator who still carriesÃâà...
Anadolu Agency
November 17, 2017
Mengistu Haile Mariam, who ruled between 1974 and 1991 and was sentenced to death in absentia, lives in Zimbabwe. home > world, africa 17.11.2017. Ethiopians follow Zimbabwe events with Mengistu in mind. Features. Archive. FILE PHOTO. By Seleshi Tessema ADDIS ABABA. The unfolding political crisis inÃâà...
