The Ethiopian government then ordered the Ethiopian Church to elect Abuna Takla Haymanot as Patriarch of Ethiopia.

The Coptic Orthodox Church refused to recognize the election and enthronement of Abuna Takla Haymanot on the grounds that the Synod of the Ethiopian Church had not removed Abuna Theophilos, and that the Ethiopian government had not publicly acknowledged his death, and he was thus still legitimate Patriarch of Ethiopia.

In 1991 the Eritrean People's Liberation Front defeated the Ethiopian government.

The Italian Eritreans strongly rejected the Ethiopian annexation of Eritrea after the war: the Party of Shara Italy was established in Asmara in July 1947 and the majority of the members were former Italian soldiers with many Eritrean Ascari ( the organization was even backed up by the government of Italy ).

The Derg, the new Ethiopian government, was a Marxist military junta led by strongman Mengistu Haile Mariam.

In mid-May, Mengistu resigned as head of the Ethiopian Government and went into exile in Zimbabwe, leaving a caretaker government in Addis Ababa.

By supporting those who destroy peace processes in our neighbouring countries, Norway undermines the Ethiopian government ’ s peace work.

In May 1991, a coalition of rebel forces under the name Ethiopian people liberation front ( EPRDF ) defeated the government of Mengistu regime.

On September 5, 2005, the National Elections Board of Ethiopia released the final election results, which confirmed that the ruling Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front retained its control of the government, but showed that opposition parties had increased their share of parliamentary seats, from 12 to 176.

On September 5, 2005, the National Elections Board of Ethiopia released the final election results in which confirmed that the ruling Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front retained its control of the government, but showed that opposition parties had increased their share of parliamentary seats, from 12 to 176.

In May 2005, the Ethiopian government began negotiations to use the port of Berbera in Somaliland.

As the first part of a 10-year Road Sector Development Program, between 1997 and 2002 the Ethiopian government began a sustained effort to improve its infrastructure of roads.

Ethiopia has spent over 600 billion birr ( USD $ 50 billion, € 30 billion ) in infrastructure since 1990, according to the Ethiopian government.

Relations between Ethiopia and Sudan were very good following the end of the Ethiopian Civil War, due to the support that the Sudanese government had given to the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front.

The subsequent investigation revealed that Sudan was involved in this act, forcing the Ethiopian government to take a series of steps against Sudan that September, which included closing the Sudanese consulate in Gambela, reducing the number of Sudanese embassy staff, and terminating all Sudan Airways and Ethiopian Airlines flights between the two countries.

In May 2008, residents along the western Ethiopian border reportedly discovered that the government had agreed to demarcate this boundary when Sudanese soldiers forced them out of their homes.

Because of the Ethiopian refusal to abide by the Italian version of the treaty and despite economic handicaps at home, the Italian government decided on a military solution to force Ethiopia to abide by the Italian version of the treaty.

In December 2009, a 96-page report titled Human Rights in Ethiopia: Through the Eyes of the Oromo Diaspora, compiled by the Advocates for Human Rights, documented human rights violations against the Oromo in Ethiopia under three successive regimes: the Abyssinian Empire under Haile Selassie, the Marxist Derg and the current Ethiopian government of the Ethiopian People ’ s Revolutionary Democratic Front ( EPRDF ), dominated by members of the Tigray People ’ s Liberation Front ( TPLF ) and which was accused to have arrested approximately 20, 000 suspected OLF members, to have driven most OLF leadership into exile, and to have effectively neutralized the OLF as a political force in Ethiopia.

According to OHCHR, the Oromia Support Group ( OSG ) recorded 594 extra-judicial killings of Oromos by Ethiopian government security forces and 43 disappearances in custody between 2005 and August 2008.

Chris Prouty observes that " a failure of nerve on the part of Menelik has been alleged by both Italian and Ethiopian sources.

" On a similar note, the Ethiopian historian-anglophile Bahru Zewde observed that " few events in the modern period have brought Ethiopia to the attention of the world as has the victory at Adwa ;".

There has also been discussion about the significance of the selection of the Ethiopian eunuch as being the first gentile conversion: inclusion of a eunuch, representing sexual minority in the context of the time.

While Djibouti ’ s President Ismail Omar Guelleh has close ties with Ethiopia ’ s ruling Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front ( EPRDF ), he has tried to maintain an even hand, developing relations with Eritrea.

However, demarcation has been delayed, despite intense international intervention, by Ethiopian insistence that the decision ignored " human geography ," made technical errors in the delimitation, and determined that certain disputed areas, specifically Badme, fall to Eritrea.

This has also led Ethiopian cooks to develop a rich array of cooking oil sources: besides sesame and safflower, Ethiopian cuisine also uses nug ( also spelled noog, known also as niger seed ).

Typically, an Ethiopian meal consists of a combination of injera ( flatbread ) with different wats, yet each cultural group has their unique variation.

* Ethiopian-inspired Cuisine Ethiopian food has spawned Western counterparts

" However, Beckingham and Huntingford have a much higher opinion of Álvares testimony, stating that not only is it " incomparably more detailed than any earlier account of Ethiopia that has survived ; it is also a very important source for Ethiopian history, for it was written just before the country was devastated by the Muslim Somali and pagan Galla invasions of the second quarter of the sixteenth century.

Sub-Saharan Africa has also had dozens of empires that pre-date the European colonial era, for example the Ethiopian Empire, Oyo Empire, Asante Union, Luba Empire, Lunda Empire and Mutapa Empire.

The intermediate size and shape of the Ethiopian wolf ( Canis simensis ) has at times caused it to be regarded as a jackal, and so have been called the " red jackal " or the " simian jackal ", but they are have more often been considered and called " wolves ".

However, the La Marle interpretation of Linear A has been rejected by John Younger of Kansas University showing that La Marle has invented erroneous and arbitrary new transcriptions based on resemblances with many different script systems at will ( as Phoenician, Hieroglyphic Egyptian, Hieroglyphic Hittite, Ethiopian, Cypro-Minoan, etc.

The Ethiopian tradition has a detailed account of the affair.

The claim of such a lineage and of possession of the Ark has been an important source of legitimacy and prestige for the Ethiopian monarchy throughout the many centuries of its existence, and had important and lasting effects on Ethiopian culture as a whole.

Both Christian and Jewish Ethiopian tradition has it that these immigrants were mostly of the Tribes of Dan and Judah ; hence the Ge ' ez motto Mo ` a ' Anbessa Ze ' imnegede Yihuda (" The Lion of the Tribe of Judah has conquered "), included among the titles of the Emperor ( King of Kings ) throughout the Solomonic Dynasty.

Tigrinya has a fairly typical set of phonemes for an Ethiopian Semitic language.

Unlike many of the modern Ethiopian Semitic languages, Tigrinya has preserved the two

Although a professed admirer of Geldof's generosity and concern, Fox News Channel television host Bill O ' Reilly has been critical of the Live Aid producer's oversight of the money raised for starving Ethiopian people, claiming ( in June 2005 ) that much of the funds were siphoned off by Mengistu Haile Mariam and his army.

Ethiopian and Eritrean businesses and restaurants have recently begun congregating on Washington Boulevard between Fairfax Avenue and National Boulevard in Culver City, less than a mile to the south of Little Ethiopia.

and by R. Basset in the Patrologia Orientalis, and that of the Ethiopian synaxarion was begun by I. Guidi in the Patrologia orient.

In 1957 Asella was the southern end of the national telephone network, and by 1960 Asella had one of the ten municipal slaughter houses in Ethiopia ; further, that year a branch of the Ethiopian Electric Light and Power Authority had begun operation in the town.

Ahmed Gurey's widow married his nephew Nur ibn Mujahid, in return for his promise to avenge Ahmed's death, who succeeded Ahmed Gurey, and continued hostilities against his northern adversaries until he killed the Ethiopian Emperor in his second invasion of Ethiopia.

After Abebe Bikila had won the 1964 Olympic marathon, four years later at the 1968 Summer Olympics, Wolde became the second Ethiopian to win the title in the marathon.

** Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia was an Ethiopian Orthodox Christian, and did not consider himself divine, but the Rastafari movement in Jamaica saw him as the second coming of Christ.

There is also a second Ethiopian tradition that, on the death of Ashama ibn Abjar, Muhammed is reported to have prayed for the king's soul, and told his followers, " Leave the Abyssinians in peace, as long as they do not take the offensive.

Royal Air Maroc has the largest fleet of 737s in Africa ( 42 ), and is expected to be the second airline in Africa, after Ethiopian Airlines, to operate the Boeing 787.

Although Gerard Nijboer from the Netherlands narrowed the gap in the last kilometre, Cierpinski sprinted the last 200 m to win his second Olympic gold and duplicate the feat of legendary Ethiopian Abebe Bikila of winning two Olympic marathons.

This monastery became one of the most important religious institutions of Ethiopia, not only founding a number of daughter houses, but its abbot became one of the principal leaders of the Ethiopian Church called the Echege, second only to the Abuna.

The operation was named " Agazi " after one of the founder fighters of the TPLF, who had been killed in the second year of the Ethiopian Civil War.

To prepare for the absorption the Ethiopian Jews, Israel adopted two " Master Plans ", the first in 1985 and the second in 1991.

She won the 2002 Great Ethiopian Run and came second in the short race at the 2002 IAAF World Cross Country Championships.

Lieutenant Alexander Bulatovich led a second Ethiopian expedition which reached the lake August 21, 1899, and was equally destructive.

Communist Party of Great Britain ( Marxist-Leninist ) Chairman Harpal Brar ( second from left ) with Vietnamese, Korean and Ethiopian visitors at a celebration of the 91st anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution in London in 2008.

A second species, A. giganteum, was discovered in the Ethiopian highlands of Chilga in 2003.

The monastery's chief abbot, called the Ichege, was the second most powerful official in the Ethiopian Church after the Abuna.

Mulatu also released a two-disc set to be sold exclusively to passengers of Ethiopian Airlines, with the first disc being a compilation of the different styles from different regions of Ethiopia and the second being studio originals.

Abune Theophilos, also known as Abune Tewophilos, ( 1909 – 1977 ) was the second Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church.

Bulcha Demeksa, announced in mid-April that his party would boycott the second round of voting in the 2008 Ethiopian local elections, joining a number of other opposition parties.