Unexpected in Addis Ababa

In 1994 Ethiopian courts started criminal procedures against individuals and allies of Mengistu's system for offenses carried out during and after the long periods of the Red Terror. By 1997 a greater number of than 5,000 suspects had been accused of war violations like torment, murder, and destruction. Indictment started in 1996 against 73 Derg individuals, 23 of whom, including Mengistu, were attempted in absentia. The Ethiopian government has endeavored to remove Mengistu from Zimbabwe, where he resides far away, banished for good. Common freedoms bunches have reprimanded the way that a large number of the suspects in care who complete more than 2,000-have been in jail without preliminary beginning around 1991.

In mid-1998 conflicts broke out among Ethiopia and Eritrea along the nations' boundary, with each side blaming the other for holding onto an area. The boundary had not been exactly depicted when Eritrea became free from Ethiopia in 1993. By mid 1999 countless soldiers had been shipped off the boundary, and the debate had become severe conflict. A huge number of warriors passed on in the battling before a truce was announced in June 2000. In December Eritrea and Ethiopia, under the sponsorship of the UN, consented to a harmony arrangement that officially finished the conflict and set up a commission to differentiate the boundary between the nations.