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Topic: Ethiopian Civil War

Ethiopian Civil War

Years: 1974 - 1991

The Ethiopian Civil War begins on September 12, 1974 when the Marxist Derg stages a coup d'état against Emperor Haile Selassie, and lasts until the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), a coalition of rebel groups, overthrow the government in 1991.The war overlaps other Cold War conflicts in Africa, such as the Angolan Civil War (1975-2002).

“The longer you can look back, the farther you can look forward...This is not a philosophical or political argument—any oculist will tell you this is true. The wider the span, the longer the continuity, the greater is the sense of duty in individual men and women, each contributing their brief life's work to the preservation..."

― Winston S. Churchill, Speech (March 2, 1944)