埃塞俄比亚自1991年起便在他的铁腕统治下开始了令人瞩目的转型。 他所属的生活在埃塞俄比亚北部的少数民族提格雷族（Tigray）推翻了马里亚姆（Mengistu Haile Mariam）领导的邪恶的共产主义军政府（马里亚姆如今在穆加贝治下的津巴布韦享受着悠闲的退休生活 ） 。
Ethiopia has undergone a remarkable transformation under his strongman rule since 1991, when his Tigrayan minority group from the country’s north came to power with the overthrow of the odious Communist Derg led by Mengistu Haile Mariam (still enjoying a comfortable retirement in Robert Mugabe’s Zimbabwe).