Ethiopia Government - 1986

GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES 

Official name: Socialist Ethiopia

Type: under military rule since September 1974; monarchy alwlished in March 1975, but republic not yet declared

Capital: Addis Ababa

Political subdivisions: 14 provinces (also referred to as regional administrations)

Legal system: complex structure with civil, Islamic, common, and customary law influences; constitution suspended September 1974; military leaders have promised a new constitution by September 1986; legal education at Addis Ababa University; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction

National holiday: Popular Revolution Commemoration Day, 12 September

Branches: executive power exercised by the Provisional Military administrative Council (PMAC), dominated by its chairman and small circle of associates; predominantly civilian Cabinet holds office at sufferance of military, legislature dissolved September 1974; judiciary at higher levels based on Western pattern, at lower levels on traditional pattern, without jury system in either

Government leader: Lt. Col. MENG1STU Haile-Mariam, Chairman of the Provisional Military Administrative Council (since February 1977)

Suffrage: none

Elections: none (January 1985)

Political parties and leaders: Ethiopian Workers Party (WPE) founded in September 1984; headed by Mengistu Haile-Mariam

Communists: government is officially Marxist-Leninist

Other political or pressure groups: impor tant dissident groups include Eritrean Liberation Front (ELF), Eritrean People’s Liberation Front (EPLF), and Eritrean Liberation Front/Popular Liberation Forces in Eritrea; Tigrean People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) in Tigray and Welo Provinces; Western Somali Liberation Front (WSLF) in theOgaden region

Member of: AfDB, ECA, FAO, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICO, ICAO, IDA, IFAD, IFC, ILO, IMF, IMO, INTELSAT, INTERPOL, 1PU, ITU, NAM, OAU, UN, UNESCO, UPU, WFTU, WHO, WMO, WTO

NOTE: The information regarding Ethiopia on this page is re-published from the 1986 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency and other sources. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Ethiopia 1986 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Ethiopia 1986 should be addressed to the CIA or the source cited on each page.