The Ethiopian Civil War was a 17 year long civil war in Ethiopia. Eritrea formed as a result of the war. 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Derg party badge, c1979. ... The Ethiopian Peoples Revolutionary Party (EPRP) was a prominent Marxist organization in Ethiopia during the 1970s. ... The All-Ethiopia Socialist Movement (MEISON) was a Marxist organization that played an active role in Ethiopian politics during the late 1970s. ... The Eritrean Peoples Liberation Front (EPLF) was an armed organization that fought for the independence of Eritrea from Ethiopia. ... The Tigrayan Peoples Liberation Front is a political party in Ethiopia. ... Derg party badge, c1979. ... The Peoples Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (PDRE) was the official name of Ethiopia from 1987 to 1991, as established by the Communist government of Mengistu Haile Mariam and the Workers Party of Ethiopia (WPE). ... A civil war is a war in which parties within the same culture, society or nationality fight against each other for the control of political power. ...
The Eritrean War of Independence started in 1962 when Emperor Haile Sellassie of Ethiopia unilaterally dissolved the Eritrean parliament and annexed the country. ...
This war lasted over two decades until the British Royal Air Force, having honed their skills in WWI, led a devastating bombing campaign against dervish strongholds in 1920, under which Hasan was forced to flee, dying of pneumonia soon after.
The dervish struggle was the one of the longest and bloodiest anti-Imperial resistance wars in sub-Saharan Africa, and cost the lives of nearly a third of northern Somalia's population, as well as egregious casualties on the Ethiopian and British sides.
The Ogaden War of 1977-78 between Somalia and Ethiopia and the consequent refugee influx forced Somalia to depend for its economic survival on humanitarian handouts.
By the end of the war, most of the country's physical infrastructure was destroyed, and what was not destroyed during the war is rapidly deteriorating.
One major consequence of the split-up was a civilwar between the two organizations during 1972-74.
Ethiopian defeats gave the EPLF control of the north, west and, finally the east (with the capture of the port city of Massawa in 1990).
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