List of Acronyms
| AU | African Union |
| CID | Criminal Investigation Department |
| CUD | Coalition for Unity and Democracy (known as Kinijit in Amharic) |
| ECA | Economic Commission for Africa |
| EDU | Ethiopian Democratic Union |
| ELF | Eritrean Liberation Front |
| EPDM | Ethiopian People’s Democratic Movement |
| EPLF | Eritrean People’s Liberation Front |
| EPRDF | Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary Democratic Front |
| EPRP | Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Army |
| ETA | Ethiopian Teachers Association |
| EUS | Ethiopian University Service |
| GC | Gregorian Calendar |
| HSIU | Haile Selassie I University |
| ICA | International Cooperation Administration |
| IDA | International Development Association |
| KINIJIT | (Amharic acronym) Coalition of Unity and Democracy |