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| 1994, Summer |
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| More than 5,000 Ethiopians died because of a terrible drought in the south that recalled the famine of a decade past. | 1 |
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| 1995, Aug. 22 |
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| Ethiopia swore in a newly elected Parliament under Premier Meles Zenawi. Armed opposition to the new government appeared in several regions, including Afar, Benishangul-Gumuz, and in the Ogaden region, site of sustained fighting between Ethiopia and Somalia in the 1980s. | 2 |
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| 1996, Oct |
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| The deputy prime minister and minister of defense, Tamisrat Layne, was dismissed for corruption, and concerns about widespread abuses of government swept the country. | 3 |
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| 1997 |
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| The government's decision to continue state ownership of all land resulted in peasant unrest in the Amhara and Tigrean regions. | 4 |
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| Jan |
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| A monk was shot while trying to assassinate the Ethiopian Orthodox Patriarch, indicating dissension within the church. | 5 |
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