Today is the National Day of Ethiopia or the Downfall of the Derg Day. The day is celebrated every year on May 28th.

In 1974, a military junta called the Derg deposed the ruling government and established a socialist state. The Derg regime faced internal conflicts, uprisings, drought, and mass displacement. It was eventually overthrown in 1991 by a coalition of opposing forces known as the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF). The EPRDF governed Ethiopia as an ethno-federalist political coalition from 1991 until it was dissolved in 2019.