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Pres. Mengistu Haile Mariam of Ethiopia flees to Zimbabwe when Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) soldie
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South African History Online. (2012, May 18). Pres. Mengistu Haile Mariam of Ethiopia flees to Zimbabwe when Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) soldie. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0083560
South African History Online (2012) 'Pres. Mengistu Haile Mariam of Ethiopia flees to Zimbabwe when Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) soldie', South African History Online, 18 May. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0083560 (Accessed: 28 September 2026).
South African History Online, Pres. Mengistu Haile Mariam of Ethiopia flees to Zimbabwe when Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) soldie [website], https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0083560, (accessed 28 September 2026).
"Pres. Mengistu Haile Mariam of Ethiopia flees to Zimbabwe when Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) soldie." South African History Online, 18 May 2012, https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0083560. Accessed 28 Sept. 2026.
South African History Online. "Pres. Mengistu Haile Mariam of Ethiopia flees to Zimbabwe when Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) soldie." South African History Online. May 18, 2012. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0083560.
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