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Al-Din Shahi Al-Manhal fi Tarikh Al-Sudan. Cairo, 2: Akhbar Al-Afar Al-Sudaniyyin.

National Archives, Khartoum, Addis Ababa Intelligence Reports, File 52/0014A.

Previous source. National Archives, Khartoum, Addis Ababa Intelligence Reports, 1914.

Fathi Ghaith, previous reference, p. 258.

The grandson of Emperor Lij Iyasu from his daughter "Afqu" who came to Sudan after the Italian invasion of Abyssinia. His maternal grandmother told him that his grandfather Lij Iyasu was a Muslim. Refer to Al-Sadiq Idris, Al-Siyasa newspaper, Khartoum, 10/8/1986. And also Dr. Hassan Abdel Rahim Al-Tayeb, previous reference.

Fathi Ghaith, previous reference, p. 258.

Hassan Abdel Rahim Al-Tayeb, previous reference, states that Iyasu was poisoned by Emperor Haile Selassie himself, and that Iyasu addressed Haile Selassie when he felt the poison spreading in his body, saying, "If the earth calls you, O Tafari, then the pure heaven calls me."

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