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26/27 November 1964: Operation DRAGON NOIR, the Belgian paracommando air assault on Paulis, 280 km northeast of Stanleyville #Congo #SimbaRevolt #CONGO60

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Operation VIRILE: setting the demolition charges to blow one of the six bridges between Dombe and Espungabera #Mozambique 27-30 November 1977; the column carried 12 tons of gelignite to do the job #RhodesianBushWar

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Operation VIRILE : a gunner in the Selous Scout column on the road to Dombe #Mozambique 27 November 1977 #RhodesianBushWar

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Operation VIRILE: The Selous Scout column stomps through Goi-Goi in southern #Mozambigue 27-30 November 1977 its mission to drop six bridges #RhodesianBushWar

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Operation VIRILE: One of the eight heavily armed Unimogs, this one armed with a 14.5 mm AA gun, in the Selous Scout flying column that blew up six bridges between Dombe and Espungabera in #Mozambique 27-30 November 1977 #RhodesianBushWar

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26/27 November 1960: Former Army chief General Victor Lundula and deposed Premier Patrice Lumumba escaped detention in Leopoldville and fled towards Stanleyville #Congo #CONGO60

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25/26 November 1961: "let us prepare for War. Not all of you will have guns, but we still have our poisoned arrows, our spears, our axes": Katanga President Moise Tshombe prepares to resist @UN military action #CONGO60

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27 Nov

24 November 1961: The @UN Security Council passed a resolution authorizing the use of force to secure the immediate withdrawal of all foreign military personnel including mercenaries from #Congo #CONGO60

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Operation DINGO, Zulu 2: A Dakota with RLI paratroopers descends over Lake Cabora Bassa on their final run-in to the ZANLA base at Tembue, 200 km inside #Mozambique 26 November 1977 #RhodesianBushWar

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Operation DINGO, Zulu 2: Alouettes at the Chiswiti airstrip, used as a HAA, 18 km from the #Mozambique border 26 November 1977 #Rhodesia #RhodesianBushWar

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25/26 November 1987: The final attacks of Operation MODULAR on the Chambinga river #Angola #SouthAfricanBorderWar

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Operation DINGO, Zulu 2: G-car flying low over Cahora Bassa Dam #Mozambique on the Zambezi, on the way back from Tembue 26 November 1977 #Rhodesia #RhodesianBorderWar

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26 November 1976: 32 Battalion and Operation SEILJAG #Angola #SouthAfricanBorderWar

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25 November 1982: The Chief Minister of Ovamboland, Pastor Corneliius Ndjoba, and five of his bodyguards were killed in a SWAPO landmine explosion #Namibia #SouthAfricanBorderWar

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#SouthAfrica Foreign Minister RF 'Pik' Botha with US Secretary of State George Schultz: Botha rejected any suggestion of a peace-keeping force to replace Cubans troops in #Angola 26 November 1982

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24 November 1965: In an army coup, Major-General Joseph Mobutu seized power, dismissing President Kasavubu and Premier Kimba #Congo

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13 Nov

"(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.

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12 Nov

Flight Lieutenant Jerry John RAWLINGS (1947-2020).

Former Military and Civilian Head of State of Ghana.

Photographed at a press conference held on January 20th 1982 after seizing power in a military coup on New Year's Eve 1981.

CREDIT: Jérôme CHATIN.

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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

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C.I.A. Officer Is Killed in Somalia https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/25/us/politics/cia-officer-somalia-death.html?smid=tw-share

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24 November 1971 "Rhodesia will be kept in civilized hands" Home-Smith Agreement: Ian Smith and #Britain Foreign Secretary Alec Douglas Home reached an agreement on #Rhodesia independence with majority rule in an unspecified future

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African students and Bulgarians protest in Sofia #Bulgaria US/Belgium intervention in #Congo 25 November 1964 #SimbaREvolt

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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

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24 November 1964-Operation DRAGON ROUGE: The Hostage massacre and rescue in Stanleyville #Congo #SimbaRevolt

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Operation 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

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24 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

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25 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

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Operation DRAGON ROUGE: Belgian paratrooopers boarding a American C-130 before dawn at Kamina airbase for the three hour flight to Stanleyville on 24 November 1964 #SimbaRevolt #Congo

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24 November 1977: #Rhodesia Prime Minister Ian Smith announced he would proceed with negotiations to reach a settlement with internal black nationalist leaders which included majority rule #RhodesianBushWar

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23 November 1975- Operation SAVANNAH: South African forces were decisively beaten with heavy losses by a FAPLA/Cuban ambush outside Ebo #Angola #SouthAfricanBorderWar

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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

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23 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

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22/23 November 1970: Portuguese amphibious raid on Conakry #Guinea to topple President Sekou Toure and kill PAIGC rebel leader Amilcar Cabral

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Nkunda's War: two Congolese army @FARDC_ soldiers killed in fighting with CNDP rebels north of Goma #Congo on 12 November 2008 #CNDPRebellion

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23 November 2018- Operation BARKHANE: French heliborne assault on Jihadist base near Niger river town of Mopti, 600 km east of Bamako #Mali

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Nkunda's War: Congolese Army @FARDC_ soldiers march from Kabati about 10 km north of Goma on Lake Kivu in eastern #Congo on 7 November 2008 #CNDPRebellion

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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

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Operation DINGO: an unexploded anti-personnel alpha bomb at Chimoio; A Canberra would drop hundreds from 300 feet set to explode at 2-3 metres after bouncing off ground causing devastating losses to anyone nearby #RhodesianBushWar

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23/24 November 1977- Operation DINGO Zulu 1: RLI/SAS air assault on ZANLA New Farm Chimoio base 70 km in #Mozambique #RhodesianBushWar #Rhodesia

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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

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23 November 1977- "Our own little Arnhem": Witness to Operation DINGO, SAS operator Peter McAleese and Fl Lt Mark Mclean #RhodesianBushWar #Rhodesia

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22 November 1990: A bloody coup of Bantu Holomisa @BantuHolomisa in Umtata #Transkei failed, with coup leader Colonel Craig Duli and nine other putschists killed along with nine soldiers

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Operation DINGO: 32 Alouettes to be used to attack New Farm gather at the HAA set up at Lake Alexander, 4 km from #Mozambique and 5,725 feet above sea level 23 November 1977 #Rhodesia #RhodesianBushWar

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The Ommengang mercenary-led motorised column Left Lubutu on evening of 23 November 1964 for the night march on Stanleyville 240 km away: set to arrive simultaneously with the Dragon Rouge paradrop the next morning #SimbaRevolt #Congo

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Operation DRAGON ROUGE: T-28 and B-26 fighter bombers being prepared at Kamina for air strikes to support the Belgian paratroop air assault on Stanleyville #Congo 23 November 1964 #SimbaRevolt

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Corpses of ten putschists killed along with captured weapons after failed coup led by Colonel Craig Duli displayed at the carpark at military base near Umtata #Transkei 22 November 1990

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22 Nov

Simba Rebellion: #Congolese army bridging equipment being used for a pontoon to cross the Lubufu river on the Mercenary-led advance to Stanleyville #Congo from Kindu 22 November 1964 #Simbarevolt

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22 Nov

Operation DRAGON ROUGE: Belgian paratroopers loading gear up a C-130 on Ascension Island for flight to Kamina airbase in southeast #Congo 22 November 1964 #SimbaRevolt