ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia -- Ethiopia's late Emperor Haile Selassie went to his final resting place on Sunday in an emotional, visually stunning reburial ceremony a full 25 years after his death.

In 1935 Emperor Haile Selassie I made a last desperate effort to forestall an Italian invasion by offering to “rent” as much as half of Ethiopia to a big U.S. or British oil company. An agent ...

Although he still holds near-absolute power and liberal elements have agitated to overthrow him (most notably in 1960), Selassie is highly respected in Africa and credited with considerable reform.

On 12 September 1974, Ethiopia's Emperor Haile Selassie I was quietly deposed by the Armed Forces Coordinating Committee – the Derg – after several months of nationwide demonstrations and strikes.