The Occupied Enemy Territory Administration in Ethiopia was a British
military occupation
Military occupation, also known as belligerent occupation or simply occupation, is the effective military control by a ruling power over a territory that is outside of that power's sovereign territory.Eyāl Benveniśtî. The international law ...
administration in Ethiopia during
East African Campaign of World War II. It expanded from early 1941 to the
final Italian defeat in November and ended in January 1942 with the signing of the
Anglo-Ethiopian Agreement
The Anglo-Ethiopian Agreement was a joint effort between Ethiopia and the United Kingdom at reestablishing Ethiopian independent statehood following the ousting of Italian troops by combined British and Ethiopian forces in 1941 during the Secon ...
.
[Harold G. Marcus. Haile Selassie and Italians, 1941–1943. Northeast African Studies, Vol. 10, No. 3 (New Series) 2003, pp. 19–25]
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. In Ethiopia, Emperor
Haile Selassie
Haile Selassie I ( gez, ቀዳማዊ ኀይለ ሥላሴ, Qädamawi Häylä Səllasé, ; born Tafari Makonnen; 23 July 189227 August 1975) was Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974. He rose to power as Regent Plenipotentiary of Ethiopia (' ...
was allowed to return and to claim his throne, but the OETA authorities ruled the country for some time before
full sovereignty was restored to Ethiopia in 1944. However,
some regions remained under British control for more years.
References
East African campaign (World War II)
History of Ethiopia
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