Ethiopian diaspora

[citation needed] Due to political turmoil and recurring natural disasters, Ethiopians have migrated to Kenya, Sudan and other neighbouring countries.

The US sent a delegation, the Skinner Mission, to Ethiopia by which Emperor Menelik II signed trade deals with the US, while expressing his interest of sending students to the US.

According to Bahiru Zewde, while the Ethiopian Air Force benefited the American interest, there was no institutions, civilian or military, that does not have America’s mark.

After the 1960 coup attempt, the Ethiopian Students Movement (ESM) was formed which established its branches in Europe and North America.

[5] The bloody EPRP mass killings and rebellion as well as the Eritrean and Somali aggressions toward the regime led the Derg to launch the Red Terror in 1976; many student revolutionaries were badly harmed and fled to Europe and North America via Sudan, Kenya, and Djibouti.