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January 21, 2020

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From Ndjamena to Cape Town, the politics and military history of sub-Saharan Africa since 1960 in an #onthisday format.

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20 January 1962: Anthony Gizenga, who had set up a rival government in Stanleyville, arrives back in Leopoldville aboard a @UN plane; he would be arrested, eventually imprisoned on Bulembemba island at the mouth of the #Congo river, remaining there till released in 1964

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20 January 1993: UNITA guerrillas captured the town of Soyo and its nearby oil fields at the mouth of the #Congo River #Angola #AngolanCivilWar

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19 Jan

18 January 2002: after nearly eleven years, #SierraLeone President Ahmad Kabbah, shown here signing the Lome Peace accord with RUF rebel leader Foday Sankoh on 7 July 1999, officially declared the civil war over #SierraLeoneCivilWar

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19 Jan

A Houthi rebel drone and missile Attack on #Yemen Military Base has killed at Least 76; Houthi rebels captured the capital Sana in 2014 and the President lives in exile in #SaudiArabia https://nyti.ms/2ucr480

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19 Jan

Residents walk by government @FARDC_ troops and a technical preparing to fight against rebel group ADF north of Beni near Kokola in North Kivu eastern #Congo on 18 January 2014

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19 Jan

Cuban and MPLA soldiers in the seaside town of N'Zeto, colonial name Ambrizete, north of Luanda recently captured from #SouthAfrica and #Zaire backed FNLA faction on 19 January 1976 #AngolanCivilWar

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19 Jan

How U.S. Firms Helped Africa’s Richest Woman, Isabel dos Santos, Exploit Her Country's Wealth #Angola https://nyti.ms/2ueb9WV

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19 Jan

19 January 1984: "Free and fair elections cannot happen with Cuban forces menacing north of the border" said #SouthAfrica Foreign Minister RF Botha as he rejected a #Angola peace proposal #BorderWar

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19 Jan

The Israeli-built 155 mm G-4 saw its first and only operational use in ASKARI; they were not up to bush conditions and only acquired until the G-5 was ready #BorderWar

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19 Jan

18 January 1984- Witness to Operation ASKARI, Lt Ian Scott: by 18 January all SADF forces were back in SW Africa; In the six week operation beginning on 8 December 1983, 25 #SouthAfrica soldiers had been killed to 324 #Angola FAPLA/SWAPO #BorderWar

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19 Jan

16 January 1994: PAC President Clarence Makwetu announced the APLA had suspended the armed struggle #SouthAfrica https://youtu.be/zOVkYoZusHQ via @YouTube

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18 Jan

Operation SERVAL: French soldiers armed with FAMAS rifles and a PanHard VBL light armoured vehicle in Bamako #Mali 18 January 2013

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18 Jan

18 January 1972: Three days of rioting in Gwelo left one black dead; former Prime Minister Garfield Todd was arrested; blacks were protesting the Independence deal with Britain. Pearce Commission was in #Rhodesia canvassing black opinion https://youtu.be/6NmpwjTVUGM via @YouTube

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17 Jan

17 January 1964: The Kwilu Rebellion led by Pierre Mulele began in Kwilu province of central #Congo; along with the Simba revolt, it would lead to the return of Moise Tshombe as Premier in July 1964 and intervention by Belgium and mercenaries

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17 Jan

#Congo statesman Patrice Lumumba, first premier of Congo after independence, was @executedtoday with two aides by Tshombe regime in Katanga with aid of #Belgium 17 January 1961 http://www.executedtoday.com/2009/01/17/1961-patrice-lumumba-congo/?platform=hootsuite

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17 Jan

17 January 1977: Eight black nationalists were @executedtoday by hanging for acts of terrorism and sabotage in Salisbury #Rhodesia

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17 Jan

17 January 1963- Operation GRAND SLAM: Katanga President Moise Tshombe agreed to surrender his last stronghold of Kolwezi #Congo to the ONUC @UN and renounce independence

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17 Jan

#RDC #Beni 🇨🇩: Les Forces armées de la RDC concentrent désormais leurs efforts sur la traque d'Afande Musa Baluku, commandant de l'ADF (allied democratic forces) sur le territoire congolais. Il est le dernier leader connu du groupe armé ougandais présent en RDC. #EnnemiPublicN1

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16 Jan

16 January 1996: #SierraLeone Leader of NPRC Council Valentine Strasser was overthrown in a bloodless coup d'etat led by Julius Maada (speaking in video); he was immediately put on a helicopter and flown into exile in Conakry #Guinea https://youtu.be/NTg924ywjOo via @YouTube

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16 Jan

Operation SERVAL: French soldiers and a Panhard ERC 90 Sagaie armoured car at Bamako air base #Mali 15 January 2013; the French sent 50 armoured vehicles from their base in Ivory Coast

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15 Jan

15 January 1966- Young Majors Coup: A attempted coup d'etat by six army officers in #Nigeria failed, leaving the Prime Minister and the premiers of two of the four regions dead; the military under Johnson Ironsi would take over the next day

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15 Jan

15 January 2019: Former Ivory Coast strong man Laurent Gbagbo was acquitted of crimes against humanity by @IntlCrimCourt at The Hague #Netherlands; he waged a five month war to stay in power after refusing to accept 2010 election results

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15 Jan

Operation SERVAL: Gazelle helicopters arriving from France being unloaded from an Antonov plane at Bamako air base #Mali on 14 January 2013

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15 Jan

15 January 1975- Alvor Agreement: In Alvor, #Portugal and the three liberation movements MPLA, UNITA and FNLA agreed to a 10-month transitional government of unity, elections and independence for #Angola on 11 November 1975 #AngolanCivilWar

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14 Jan

14 January 1963- "Down with the hypocrites, long live the united #Congo": armed with wooden battering rams, 300 students stormed and ransacked the British embassy in Leopoldville over its support for Moise Tshombe and the Katanga secession

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14 Jan

Anti-Balaka fighters with amulets 14 January 2014: although secretive of their content and purpose, the amulets were said to contain the soil of ancestors, carry the flesh of enemies they have killed and to protect them in battle #CentralAfricanRepublic #funfacts

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14 Jan

14 January 1962 Gizenga Revolt Ends: After two days of fighting in Stanleyville #Congo between troops loyal to the central government and pro-Gizenga forces left 14 soldiers dead, Antoine Gizenga agreed to return to Leopoldville

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14 Jan

14 January 1963- "Down with the hypocrites, long live the united #Congo": armed with wooden battering rams, 300 students stormed and ransacked the British embassy in Leopoldville over its support for Moise Tshombe and the Katanga secession

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14 Jan

President Emmanuel Macron and five African leaders agreed that French troops would remain in the fight against Islamist militants and to small troop increase., but Little Else, at Sahel Summit https://nyti.ms/30hZvpP

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13 Jan

France Summons African Leaders of Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, Chad and Mauritania, Threatening Troop Pullout; French troops intervened in 2013 in #Mali with Operation SERVAL, currently BARKHANE https://nyti.ms/2Nj5cOO

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13 Jan

In 1963 Rhodesia had the same Gross Domestic Product as South Korea. Today Zimbabwe's GDP is 150 times smaller than South Korea's. Zimbabwe is the world's fastest shrinking economy. Today the average Zim standard of living is half of what it was in 1980.

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13 Jan

57 years ago, the founder of #Togo, the man who fought for her, independence, a great economist, fluent in 6 languages PhD and JD holder, the man who built the most modern schools in our history Sylvanus Olympio was assassinated by France in the 1st coup in Africa.

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13 Jan

13 January 1963: #Togo President Sylvanus Olympio was @executedtoday assassinated outside the US embassy in the capital of Lome during a military coup , his bullet-riddled body found only feet from safety at the Embassy's gate where he sought refuge

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13 Jan

13 January 1980- "It is a tragedy we had to fight, but let us say to each other its all over" said Joshua Nkomo to 100,000 supporters at a rally outside Salisbury in the British colony of Southern #Rhodesia

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13 Jan

13 January 1977: Real guerrillas fire on an anti-guerrilla campaign meeting in #Rhodesia https://youtu.be/UOQ6Ix4_d6E via @YouTube

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13 Jan

Operation HOOPER: A FAPLA BM-21 Grad MRL destroyed by a #SouthAfrica Olifant during the attack on 13 January 1988 #BorderWar

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13 Jan

13 January 1972- "Report at the nearest police station for your own safety": three days after the US first lady visited, #Ghana Prime Minister Kofi Busia was overthrown by a military #coup d'etat led by Lt. Col. I. K. Acheampong

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13 Jan

First lady of the US Mrs Richard Nixon visiting Accra #Ghana and the soon to be ex-Prime Minister Kofi Busia three days before he was deposed in a military coup d'etat on 13 January 1972

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13 Jan

Operation HOOPER: UNITA light infantry and Olifants of 4 SAI before the attack on 21 Brigade on 13 January 1988 #Angola #BorderWar

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