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RSS Feed26 November 1960: Former Army chief General Victor Lundula and deposed Premier Patrice Lumumba escaped detention in Leopoldville and fled towards Stanleyville #Congo #CONGO60
2"(Jerry) Rawlings introduced something quite new into African politics. He established the idea that there are laws of natural justice that not even military men can evade. Even political generals are accountable to the law; nobody is outside the law."
- Emeka Ojukwu, Sept.1981.
25 November 1985- "It's hit! it's going down!" Operation CERBERUS: A 5 Recce team and UNITA shot down a Antonov An-12 cargo plane, used to supply FAPLA forces, with a captured SA-9 missile outside Menongue #Angola, killing all 21 on board #AngolanCivilWar #SouthAfricanBorderWar
3C.I.A. Officer Is Killed in Somalia https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/25/us/politics/cia-officer-somalia-death.html?smid=tw-share
Operation DRAGON ROUGE: Approximately 1,600 Europeans were flown out from Stanleyville on 24/25 November 1964; it was too late for the 28 hostages killed, including American Missionary Dr Paul Carlson, sentenced to death by Simbas eight days before #SimbaRevolt
4Operation DRAGON ROUGE: The night march on 24 November 1964 by column of 5 commando mercenaries and Congolese troops led by Mike Hoare was held up by Simba ambushes on the road to Stanleyville and arrived several hours late; CBS correspondent George Clay was killed #SimbaRevolt
424 November 1964- Operation DRAGON ROUGE: 320 Belgian paratroopers jump at Stanleyville, securing the airport before the rush into the city #Congo to rescue the hostages #SimbaRevolt
425 November 1970: @UN mission headed to #Guinea to investigate the attack on Conakry by then unknown forces; their report issued on 4 December would conclude the Portuguese military was responsible and was an attempt to kill PAIGC leader Amilcar Cabral https://youtu.be/zehsPW3q9m4
Operation SAVANNAH: One of the five Eland 90 of Battle Group Foxbat lost to the Cubans and FAPLA at Battle of Ebo on 23 November 1975 and pictured in 2009 #SouthAfricanBorderWar
223 November 1970- "Have personally seen four ships and fighter planes flying over the city": @UN Secretary General U Thant reads telegrams from #Guinea President Sekou Toure on Portuguese raid on Conakry https://youtu.be/hJ-08iFAz4o via @YouTube
Nkunda's War: rebel soldiers of Laurent Nkunda's CNDP north of Goma #Congo in November 2008: The CNDP launched an offensive on 26 October that routed
@FARDC_ and displaced a quarter million people #CNDPRebellion
Operation DINGO: corpses of dead ZANLA guerrillas at Chimoio base #Mozambique killed during the SAS/RLI aerial assault on 23 November 1977; at least 560 guerrillas were killed with higher estimates to two Rhodesian KIA and 12 wounded #RhodesianBushWar
4M23 rebellion: M23 rebels outside Sake as residents flees the town 27 km west of Goma on Lake Kivu #Congo; rebels briefly held the town before it was recaptured by @FARDC_ and Mai-Mai militia on 22 November 2012
221 November 1979- "Don't worry about Mugabe. They always say some wild thing like that. They will accept a cease-fire": Muzorewa in Salisbury #Rhodesia on his return from Lancaster House Conference; Mugabe would agree to a cease-fire on 5 December https://youtu.be/FRJ58Jsf5Hc
Uganda Releases Opposition Leader After Clashes Kill at Least 28 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/20/world/africa/Uganda-Bobi-Wine-protests.html?smid=tw-share
Why do hunters hunt – really? There has been a lot of anti hunting sentiment in the media, & I get it. The sight of an animal that is roaming majestic & proud lifts the spirit & makes the world seem right somehow. They are beautiful, awe-inspiring & remind us of an earlier world. A
We killed snakes in Africa in the 1960’s, many still do. Now, many of us know that the ecosystem is fragile & snakes have had a bad press, but things were simpler back then. Today, we might feel a twinge of guilt if we kill a snake. If we kill it because it’s about to
Should we ban trophy hunting in Zimbabwe? In a recent CNBC article by Zack Guzman, published this week, there are concerns that a knee jerk ban on trophy hunting could be detrimental to the Zimbabwean economy. The article quotes Amy Dickman, a researcher with WILDCRU, the team that were studying Cecil the lion along with other
It could be time that laws were changed to allow powers for wildlife officers to shoot poachers. Kapamba Kombe told newsmen that ZAWA has requested extra powers from parliament because the game parks are like war zones, and officers have been charged for returning fire – According to a report in NGR Guardian News. Previous
