lol. Abiy rebels; Abiy is 40 somethingyr old; our agemate.
Before Mengistu - Ethiopia was a monarchy - Amhara monarchy - run by king - Haile was the last one - he was King who run other small ethiopean Kings - a king of kings.
Mengistu a junior army led DERG - hustler revolution against the kings and their protege.
They adopted marxism or communism - and redistributed wealth or poverty. Think China MAO. A purge on the rich. That brought poverty like happen everywehre from China, Zim and name it - as new land or property owners have no clue.
Out of that poverty it's led to Great Famine. Think China in Mao era. Mengistu marxism or Huslter revolution had backfired and now everyone was more poorer and actually dying from it.
And out of that desperation - arose Meles Zenawi - medical student who left to join forces to fight Derg.
Meles was like China's Xiaping. Adopting some capitalism while keeping a core communist society.
The model worked.
He died from cancer - and cookie start to crumble. Not so fast. They picked a small tribe guy - from Gambela - and he become PM.
OROMOs and Amhara start to merge. Oromo have smelt blood..they want Adis and everyone out...they are like Kalenjin/nilotic owning Nairobi -
The proxy Gambela and Tigray - picks a 40yr old IT engineer in the army to become PM.
And that is Abbiy.
Ethiopia is really Amhara, Tigrays and Oromo - with Somali distant 4th. Tigrays are cousins to Eritreas - and more caucasian therefore don't want to be under Amhara - who also don't want to be under Oromo/Somali - who also don't want to be under Southern Nations.
Tigray-Amhra -speak a semitic language - more like jews/arabs. Oromo/Somalis speak cushistic - more africa - kalenjin mixed with arabic/semitic
And that is the hierarchy... a racial fight.
Wasn't Mengistu overthrown by Abiy rebels led by Zenawi? Followed swiftly by Eritrea secession.