{"id":277306,"date":"2019-05-28T09:26:02","date_gmt":"2019-05-28T13:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiW2h0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmFhLmNvbS50ci9lbi9hZnJpY2EvZXRoaW9waWEtY2VsZWJyYXRlcy1kb3duZmFsbC1vZi1tYXJ4aXN0LWRlcmctcmVnaW1lLzE0OTEyNTbSAQA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-24T11:27:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T15:27:22","slug":"ethiopia-marked-28-years-since-the-dergs-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/277306","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia marked 28 years since the Derg\u2019s fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2019 Anadolu Agency reported that Ethiopia commemorated the 28th anniversary of the downfall of the Marxist Derg regime that ruled for about 17 years after the 1974 revolution.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-354823\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Justice-ethiopia.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Ethiopia marked 28 years since the Derg\u2019s fall\" \/>\n<p>Official ceremonies remembered the end of a period marked by the Red Terror, forced resettlement, and the long wars that eventually brought the EPRDF to power in 1991.<\/p>\n<p>Anniversary coverage is thin as news, but it still helps readers place later politics against the calendar of how the Ethiopian Government and parties mark regime change.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as history archive, the Anadolu brief dates the 2019 Derg-fall remembrance under Abiy Ahmed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/africa\/ethiopia-celebrates-downfall-of-marxist-derg-regime\/1490584\">Anadolu Agency<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia celebrates downfall of Marxist &#8216;Derg&#8217; regime&nbsp;&nbsp;Anadolu AgencyADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia. Ethiopia commemorated the 28th anniversary of the downfall of the Marxist regime, known as the Derg, that ruled the country for 17 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":354823,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Justice-ethiopia.jpg?fit=1023%2C583&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1a8G","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277306"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754946,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277306\/revisions\/754946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}