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Fighters loyal to Alassane Quattara outside Abidjan, #IvoryCoast on 2 April 2011: hundreds were killed in a rapid advance of Quattara forces on the city which aimed to oust Laurent Gbagbo who had refused to leave office after losing an election in December

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US President Jimmy Carter and Lt General Olusegun Obasanjo in native garb in Lagos #Nigeria on 2 April 1978; Carter called for a new peace conference for #Rhodesia, and support for the British-American plan which called for a British caretaker government followed by elections

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2 April 1994- "I want to say to you the revolution is at hand. Let us begin it": AWB rally in Ventersdorp, plans for the Volkstaat and war #SouthAfrica

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NINE DAYS WAR: SWA police constables with SWAPO dead after a contact on 2 April 1989 #NineDaysWar #Angola #SouthAfrica #Borderwar

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2 April 2003- The Final Act: In Sun City #SouthAfrica the last agreement was signed by #Congo government and all rebel and opposition groups providing for a transitional government, elections and ending the #SecondCongoWar

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1 April 1997- "The Mobutu regime must end": Zaire's Parliament selected long-time opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi as the new Prime Minister #Congo #FirstCongoWar

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Tango @Tangoville·

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Kenneth Roth@KenRoth·

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You can tell a leader's character in time of crisis. Some have responded to the coronavirus by trying to protect their people. But autocrats see it as an opportunity to silence critics and consolidate power. Our health suffers. I explain in @NYBooks: https://trib.al/RWHpcmx

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1 April 2007: The BIRAO PEACE ACCORD was signed by the #CentralAfricanRepublic and the UFDR rebel group, ending the majority of the fighting in the #CentralAfricanRepublicBushWar

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Refugees fleeing #Uganda cross into #Kenya as #Tanzania troops and UNLA rebels began final advance on Kampala on 1 April 1979 #UgandaTanzaniaWar

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1 April 1989: SWAPO held a rally and attempted a march of its supporters from the black township of Katutura to Windhoek, but was turned back by SWA police #Namibia #Angola

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NINE DAYS WAR: Corpses of 21 of the estimated 120 PLAN fighters killed in contacts with SWA police units in the first few days of fighting #Namibia #Angola #NineDaysWar

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1-9 April 1989- NINE DAYS WAR: With @UN Resolution 435 and a cease-fire going into effect at midnight, hundreds of SWAPO/PLAN fighters crossed the border from #Angola leading to nine days of fighting with #SouthAfrica police and army units in #Namibia #Borderwar #NineDaysWar

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Casspir of SWAPOL COIN, formerly Koevoet, patroling the #Angola/SW Africa border on 31 March 1989 #BorderWar #NineDaysWar

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Margaret Thatcher at Windhoek #Namibia with General Prem Chand, head of UNTAG military mission on 1 April 1989; she called for a special session of @UN Security Council due to morning clashes between SWAPO/PLAN and SWAPOL COIN units

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31 March 1989: As part of the Tripartite agreement signed in December, #SouthAfrica soldier Johan Papenfus (shown with Cuban soldiers), captured on 4 May 1988 in #Angola, was exchanged for 11 Angolan and four Cuban prisoners at the Angola/#Namibia border #BorderWar

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NINE-DAYS WAR "The beginning of a new era": @UN Special Representative #Namibia Martti Ahtisaari arrived at Windhoek airport and held a press conference with #SouthAfrica SWA Adminstrator Louis Pienaar on 31 March 1989 #Angola #BorderWar

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31 March 1979- "I'm a spy for #Rhodesia": Afonso Cotoi,
@executedtoday by firing squad in #Mozambique for treason and spying #RhodesianBushWar

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Barthelemy Boganda was the leader of the #CentralAfricanRepublic independence movement who died in a plane crash on 29 March 1959; Unfortunately, his death would lead to David Dacko, 'Emperor' Jean-Bedel Bokassa, Dacko reprise, Andre Kolingba, Ange-Felix Patasse, Francoise Bozize

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Democratic forces for the Liberation of #Rwanda FDLR fighters in North Kivu province in eastern #Congo March 2015; the FDLR is the latest iteration of Rwandan Hutu army and Iterahamwe militia 'Genocidaires' who formed the ALiR when they fled to #Congo and fought in #FirstCongoWar

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31 March 1972: #SouthAfrica created the self-governing black homeland of KwaZulu, one of ten Bantustans, four of which became 'independent'

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27 March 1979: Yusuf Lule, President of the newly created UNLF in Moshi #Tanazania at the conclusion of the Moshi Unity Conference held to unite #Uganda resistance groups #UgandaTanzaniaWar https://youtu.be/VE1-JAnfdI0 via @YouTube

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Peace in our Time #Angola March 1996 #AngolanCivilWar https://youtu.be/quHaoDrKYRQ via @YouTube

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31 March 1997: The former Belgian airbase and rail hub of Kamina in eastern Zaire fell to the advancing #Rwanda RPA and AFDL irregulars, 1.700 km from Kinshasa #Congo #FirstCongoWar

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30 March 1979-Kill Nkomo: Selous Scout Martin Broadman was arrested as a spy in #Zambia #Rhodesia #RhodesianBushWar

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23 March 2019- Ogossagou Massacre: in the worst atrocity of the recent unrest in #Mali, the Dogon militia Dan Na Ambassagou massacred 152 civilians in the village of Ogossagou

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The HALO Trust@TheHALOTrust·

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100,000 landmines gone forever.

Last week, HALO destroyed its 100,000th landmine in Zimbabwe.

Thank you @StateDeptPM, @DFID_UK and @MofaJapan_en for making this happen.

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30 March 1976: @amnesty released a report which claimed over 60 persons had been hanged since UDI in November 1965, 700 detained some for over 10 years, and torture was routine #Rhodesia #RhodesianBushWar

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30 March 1960- "If the natives go over to greater violence, their actions will be met with greater force": A State of Emergency was declared in #SouthAfrica as 30,000 blacks marched on Cape Town to protest arrest of 234 government opponents and pass laws

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Crisis in the Sahel Becoming France’s Forever War #Mali #BurkinaFaso #Niger Operation SERVAL BARKHANE @brkinibeachriot https://nyti.ms/39vjhkt

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A group of #SouthAfrica blacks burn their pass books in Orlando, near Johannesburg on 29 March 1960

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27 March 2002: Ian Smith asserts he has lost his #Zimbabwe citizennship; He had not renounced his British citizenship as required by a new law and his passport renewal was refused https://youtu.be/N5bjAqHy8r0 via @YouTube

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28 March 1988: A #SouthAfrica special forces raid near Gaborone #Botswana killed a ANC commander and three civilians

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Police take cover as @IFPinParliament supporters flee as they are fired upon by gunmen at a march in Johannesburg #SouthAfrica supporting Zulu sovereignity on 28 March 1994

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28 March 1994: An @IFPinParliament march of 20,000 including armed Impis in Johannesburg #SouthAfrica in support of Zulu Sovereignty saw 55 killed in related violence, including nine shot dead by ANC guards at Shell House HQ

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22 March 2012- "A spectacular own goal": Mutinous soldiers staged a coup d'etat in Bamako #Mali and overthrew President Amadou Toure

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27 March 1962: The UPA guerrilla group reorganized as the National Front fo the Liberation of #Angola FNLA #AngolanCivilWar

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The first Alouette III for the Royal Rhodesian Air force RRAF and the Central African Federation, of eight, arrived at New Sarum airbase in Salisbury Southern #Rhodesia on 27 March 1962

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Operation SAVANNAH: The last #SouthAfrica SADF vehicles cross the Cunene River at Rucana into SW Africa on 27 March 1976 #AngolanCivilWar

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26 March 1976- Operation SAVANNAH: #SouthAfrica troops withdrawing from #Angola #AngolanCivilWar https://youtu.be/nVb9NzlxK-E via @YouTube

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22 March 1997- "Kinshasa! Kinshasa! Kinshasa!": From liberated Kisangani #Zaire #Congo, AFDL rebel leader Laurent Kabila rejected @UN calls for a cease-fire and promised to advance on Kinshasa #FirstCongoWar

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The leaders of the resistance to the new #SouthAfrica and the April elections in March 1994: @IFPinParliament Gatsha Buthelezi, Freedom Front General Constand Viljoen and Bophuthatswana President Lucas Mangope

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Far right-wingers at a Conservative party rally in Pretoria #SouthAfrica burn an FW de Klerk election poster on 26 March 1994

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25-31 March 1990- Operation MARION and the SEVEN-DAY WAR: over 200 people were killed, 200 houses burned and 20,000 fled in @IFPinParliament Zulu instigated violence in the Pietermaritzburg area #SouthAfrica

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25/26 March 1978: Summit in #Tanzania between leaders Machel #Mozambique, Kaunda #Zambia, Seretse Khama #Botswana, Julius Nyerere, Nkomo and Mugabe issued a commminque accusing the US and Britain of failing to condemn the #Rhodesia internal settlement https://youtu.be/EhuibXpHWeo

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25 March 1977: @executedtoday by firing squad in Brazzaville former President of #Congo Republic Alphonse Massamba-Debat, for allegedly plotting the assassination of President Marien Ngouabi http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/03/25/1977-alphonse-massemba-debat/

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SHABA I: Zaire FAZ government troops arriving at Kolwezi airfield to combat the two-week old FNLC invasion of Shaba province from #Angola on 25 March 1977 #Congo

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25/29 March 1965- Operation WHITE GIANT: Mercenary commandos clear Oriental province in northeast #Congo