Great White Tribe

25 February 2009: Three Revolutionary United Front commanders were convicted of war crimes by the Special Court for #SierraLeone in Freetown #SierraLeoneCivilWar

President de Gaulle straps into a helicopter leaving for a base in Batna on his three-day inspection tour in #Algeria 3-5 March 1960 #AlgerianWar

2/3 March 2013- Operation SERVAL: Battle for Ametettai ; French lost second soldier killed in Ifoghas Massif in eastern #Mali

4 March 1980- "The unbearable Truth": Operation QUARTZ #Rhodesia

"Short trial of captured Guerrilla": from 15 June 1970 @derspiegel Portuguese soldiers happily beheading a FRELIMO suspect with a machete, and then holding his head aloft by the ears

4 March 1980- "Let us join together": Robert Mugabe won the Southern #Rhodesia independence election with 63% of vote and became Prime Minister of #Zimbabwe

4 March 1990: #Ciskei President Lennox Sebe was overthrown by a coup led by Brigadier Oupa Gqozo

Burkinabe soldiers patrol on road from Gorgadji in Sahel region of #BurkinaFaso on 3 March 2019

"Short trial of captured Guerrilla": from 15 June 1970 @derspiegel, Portuguese soldiers happily beheading a FRELIMO suspect with a machete, and then holding his head aloft by the ears

Thomas Sankara, President of the National Council of the Revolution CNR, in March 1986 at Bobo-Dioulasso, 350 km southwest of the capital of Ouagadougou #BurkinaFaso

2-4 March 1979- Battle of Tororo: #Uganda rebels were routed at Tororo, 160 km east Of Kampala, in one of Amin's few victories in #UgandaTanzaniaWar

3 March 1961: Upon the death of his father, Hassan II became the new King of #Morocco

3 March 1978: #Rhodesia Prime Minister Ian Smith signed a agreement with three internal Black leaders to tranfer power to a Black majority government #RhodesianBushWar

French troops trying to contained rioting in Casbah, the Moslem quarter in Algiers on 2 March 1962; 60 were killed in #Algeria, 32 in Algiers mostly Moslems by the OAS, one of the highest totals of the six year #AlgerianWar

2 March 1970: #Rhodesia proclaimed itself a Republic http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/witness/march/2/newsid_3497000/3497239.stm

#Nigeria President-elect Olusegun Obansanjo flanked by former military rulers Ibrahim Babangida(1985-1993) and Yakubu Gowon(1966-1975) 2 March 1999

2 March 1956: France recognized the independence of the Kingdom of #Morocco