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February 23, 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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23 February 1979- Operation GROVEL: #Rhodesia air force Canberra bombers struck the major ZIPRA base Nampundwe camp west of Lusaka #Zambia #RhodesianBushWar

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23 February 1964:Aftermath of failed coup d'etat of #Gabon President Leon M'ba that was crushed by French troops https://youtu.be/4bVrcy22ZyY via @YouTube

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17-20 February 1964: An attempted coup of #France-ally President Leon M'ba in Libreville #Gabon was crushed by French troops rushed in from #Senegal and Brazzaville

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23 February 1986: Thirteen convicted, sentenced to be executed by firing squad for the December 1985 coup attempt to overthrow General Ibrahim Babangida #Nigeria https://youtu.be/ZUFobooi4lM via @YouTube

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“a beautiful woman — but also a dangerous woman, perhaps the most dangerous in all Africa.”: Overlooked No More: Andrée Blouin, Voice for Independence in Africa https://nyti.ms/38skF87

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22 Feb

22 February 1969: Aftermath of Federal #Nigeria bombing of Omoba #Biafra #NigerianCivilWar https://youtu.be/2QDdY27k6qo via @YouTube

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22 Feb

22 February 2002: UNITA rebel leader Jonas Savimbi was killed in Moxico Province #Angola 700 km southeast of Luanda, leading to the end of 27 years of the #AngolanCivilWar

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21 Feb

21 February 1961: It was announced 12 former aides of slain #Congo Premier Patrice Lumumba were @executedtoday immediately after being delivered to Bakwanga, now Mbuji-Mayi, in the secessionist Kasai Mining State of Albert Kalonji

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21 Feb

After hearing the news of @UN resolution 161, Premier Moise Tshombe of the breakaway #Congo province of Katanga said he was prepared to take up arms against the UN and ordered general mobilisation of his forces 21 February 1961

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21 Feb

21 February 1961: A week after the assassination of elected former Premier Patrice Lumumba was revealed, The
@UN Security Council passed Resolution 161 authorizing the use of force to prevent civil war in #Congo

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21 Feb

21 February 2013- Operation SERVAL: French troops killed 20 rebels in street fighting when Islamist fighters launched a surprise attack on Gao in the Niger bend #Mali

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21 Feb

"To replace a white dictatorship with a black one, then slip off back to Whitehall as quickly as possible would be perfidious" said the @TheEconomist as Bishop Muzorewa campaigns for the election in Southern #Rhodesia on 21 February 1980

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20 Feb

Ballot boxes under guard near Mt. Darwin #Rhodesia on 20 February 1980; the election was scheduled for three days beginning 27 February

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20 Feb

20 February 2016: Faustin Touadera was declared the winner of a run-off election and became President of the #CentralAfricanRepublic

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14 February 1980- Operation HECTIC: Selous Scout Church bombings around Salisbury #Rhodesia to discredit ZANLA; Two Selous Scouts were killed when one bomb exploded prematurely #RhodesianBushWar

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20 Feb

20 February 1978: Two days after FROLINAT/FAP rebels captured provincial capital of Faya-Largeau from #Chad army, France intervened with Operation TAUCAUD #Tchad #ChadianCivilWar

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20 Feb

20 February 1973: Journalist Peter Niesewand became the first white since former Prime Minister Garfield Todd to be arrested under emergency laws #Rhodesia #RhodesianBushWar

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20 Feb

19 February 1987-Operation DUIKER: Ron Reid-Daly and the SADF-planned #Transkei raid to assassinate President Lennox Sebe at the Presidential Palace in Bisho #Ciskei

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19 Feb

19 February 1988 Oshakati bomb blast:: A 50 lb bomb attributed to SWAPO/PLAN exploded in the First National Bank in Oshakati SW Africa /#Namibia killing 27 people and injuring 70 others #BorderWar

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19 Feb

Battle of Bulawayo February 1981: ZIPRA BTR-152 knocked out by Eland-90 armoured car troop during clashes between ZIPRA and ZANLA guerrillas that left 260 dead; Mugabe was forced to rely on the remaining white-led RAR units in the ZNA to quell the uprising #Zimbabwe #Rhodesia

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19 Feb

19 February 2013- Operation SERVAL: a French Foreign Legionnaire was killed in heavy fighting with Islamist militants in the Ifoghas massif on the #Algeria border #Mali

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19 Feb

#Guinea: Fear of Further Crackdown as Constitutional Poll Nears. Referendum on 1 March could clear way for President to run for a third term which he is barred from doing; 30 killed in protests since October https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/02/19/guinea-fear-further-crackdown-constitutional-poll-nears

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19 Feb

19 February 1961: Riots in London outside the #Belgium embassy over the killing of Patrice Lumumba in #Congo and The Belgian embassy in Belgrade was sacked; In 2001, Belgium admitted he was killed by Katangese with active role of Belgian officers http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/19/newsid_2748000/2748931.stm

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19 Feb

19 February 1978: #SouthAfrica soldier Johan van der Mescht was captured by SWAPO/PLAN at Elundu near the #Angola border #BorderWar

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18 Feb

#Zimbabwe: Violence and Rape by Government Forces after protests beginning 14 January 2019; 17 were killed https://youtu.be/hY6jF7c20Ek via @YouTube

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18 Feb

EU Renews #Zimbabwe Arms Embargo, Asset Freeze Against State-Owned Military Company, Zimbabwe Defense Industries, until recommendations of commission into human rights abuses by security forces after 2018 election are addressed https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/02/18/eu-urges-zimbabwe-bring-abusive-security-forces-justice

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18 Feb

18 February 1978: Libyan-backed FROLINAT/FAP rebels led by Goukouni Oueddei defeated the #Tchad #Chad army and captured Faya-Largeau, leading to French intervention in Operation TACAUD #ChadianCivilWar

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18 Feb

18 February 1965-"There's not a cow in #Gambia that doesn't know me personally": #Gambia, #Africa smallest nation, gained its independence, as former veterinarian David Jawara was named its first Prime minister

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18 Feb

18 February 1977: Black troops in the #Rhodesia army training #RhodesianBushWar https://youtu.be/MxNnwaojjpY via @YouTube

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18 Feb

Operation SUKOLA: Congolese soldiers of the @FARDC_ after they took control of a ADF rebel camp near Kimbau North Kivu #Congo #DRC #DRCongo on 18 February 2018

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18 Feb

18 February 1982: The SAS frigate President Kruger sank off the coast of #SouthAfrica after colliding with the SAS Tafelberg while conducting exercises in the south Atlantic; thanks to @VWSFire for the attached information

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18 Feb

17 February 1982- "The only way to deal effectively with a snake is to strike and destroy its head": Joshua Nkomo was sacked from the unity government along with three other ZAPU ministers #Zimbabwe

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17 Feb

Army Generals Running Mining, Fuel Cartels in #Zimbabwe, says a study by @RANDCorporation https://allafrica.com/stories/202002170124.html via @allafrica

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17 Feb

17 February 1990- "The wind from the east is shaking the coconut trees": #Gabon President Omar Bongo foretold that upheaval in eastern Europe would lead to unrest and democratic changes in #Africa

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17 Feb

17 February 2017: Video purported to show massacre of at least 13 civilians in Kasai Province by @FARDC_ Congolese Army soldiers #Congo https://nyti.ms/2lsFYk5

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17 Feb

Operation SERVAL: French Nexter Systems VBCI IFV's at Bourem in the Niger bend in eastern #Mali on 17 February 2013

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17 Feb

17 February 1978: At the @UN #Chad accuses #Libya of backing FROLINAT rebels and occupying parts of northern #Tchad https://youtu.be/XGn27-nhJxU via @YouTube

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17 Feb

Gunmen have killed 24 people and wounded 18 in an attack on a Protestant church in a village in northern #BurkinaFaso, officials said Monday https://news.yahoo.com/twenty-four-killed-burkina-faso-church-attack-governor-105026257.html?soc_src=hl-viewer&soc_trk=tw via @Yahoo

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16 Feb

Operation BISON- "Imbecile, its your fault": French Foreign legionnaires intervened in April 1969 when de Gaulle sent 3,000 soldiers to #Tchad in a military operation to fight FROLINAT rebels 16 February 1970 #Chad

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16 Feb

31 Reported Dead in Ogossagou in central #Mali, as Attackers Return to Scene of a Massacre where 150 were killed last March https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/15/world/africa/mali-attack.html

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16 February 1991- Return to Sender: In Johannesburg #SouthAfrica, ANC activist and lawyer Bheki Mlangeni was killed by a Vlakplaas security police parcel bomb intended for a former commander Dirk Coetzee

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16 February 1990: The Constitutional assembly unanimously elected Sam Nujoma as the first President of #Namibia, which would gain independence on 21 March

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16 February 1984: In Lusaka #Zambia, representatives of #SouthAfrica, #Angola and the US agreed to a disengagement plan that would see South African and SWAPO forces removed from an specified area of Angola monitored by a Joint Monitoring Commission #BorderWar

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16 February 1976-"We cannot accept a minority regime imposed on our people by Cuban troops and Russian tanks": In a statement, UNITA announced it would continue its armed struggle as guerrilla warfare #Angola #AngolanCivilWar

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15 Feb

15 February 1978: After 37 rounds of internal settlement talks, #Rhodesia Prime Minister Ian Smith and three black leaders, Jeremiah Chirau, Elliot Gabellah and Bishop Muzorewa, announced they had reached an agreement on a transfer to black majority rule #RhodesianBushWar

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15 Feb

12/15 February 1979- First Battle of N'Djamena: An attempted coup by Prime Minister Hissen Habre saw 500 people killed in three days of street fighting; the coup failed but the Felix Malloum government would be replaced in March #Tchad #Chad

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14 Feb

Witness to Operation HOOPER- Johan Kooij February 1988 #BorderWar #Angola https://youtu.be/lDCYLDg5a9k via @YouTube

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14 February 1976-"These foul cravens are sending them to their graves": American black leaders criticized right-wing CORE leader Roy Innis, who said he had recruited 300 black Americans to fight for UNITA #AngolanCivilWar

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