1. He is not being shot at from within Addis Abeba as EPRP did at Mengistu.
2. He is not being shot at from Tigray and Eritrea as Mengistu was but he is being shot at from Amara and Oromo.
3. He is not shot at from Ogaden as Mengistu was but he is being shot at Gambella and Benishangul.
4. No coup d'etat within the army and dissenters are just shoved off but not killed as Mengistu did.
5. No ideological diffrences with the regime changers of the West, lead by the USA.
6. A religius bigot that he is inspite of which he has a full control of both the Christian and Islamic leaderships