Rita Marley made the Rastafarian equivalent of aliyah in the 80s and hundreds, maybe a couple of thousand, Rastafarians followed her there.
They squat on land in Shashamane which their deity willed to them, and which the government considers to be state property.
Sounds like the "Derg" has never been out of power.
Actually, the EPRDF killed most of the Derg - different ethnic group from the Tigrayans who are the mainstay of the EPRDF.
I thought the Amharic and the Tigrinya were the two ethic groups that traditionally made up the indigenous church.