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January 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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Operation GRAND SLAM: Katangese mercenaries on the road from Kolwezi #Congo to the #Angola border: Thousands of gendarmes had fled rather than be disarmed by @UN troops 23 January 1963

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23 January 1964 "it lasted all night. The noise was terrible": Witness to the Kilembe Mission Massacre by Mulele fighters, Sister Lutgart, superior of the mission in Kwilu #Congo

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22 January 1975: ZANLA commander Thomas Nhari was tried and @executedtoday with immediate effect; he led the #Rhodesia CIO instigated rebellion against ZANU leadership in Lusaka #Zambia

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22 January 1964: Kenneth Kaunda was elected Prime Minister of colony of Northern #Rhodesia, which would become independent #Zambia in October; he would rule for 27 years until losing an election in 1991

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22 Jan

Guerrilla suspects rounded up after a fire force action; RLI trooper armed with a LMG and Allouette G-car in the background #Rhodesia

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22 Jan

"South Africa had these really big tanks called Elephants that scare people cause theyre really big and really loud but they were no match for the smaller soviet tanks" at 30.50 LOL fractured fairy tales about the #BorderWar #AngolanCivilWar https://youtu.be/4ZKDeAXpaqA via @YouTube

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22 Jan

22 January 1976: Scenes from Sllva Porto, present day Kuito, UNITA HQ; Benguela railroad pictured transported ore from #Angola and #Zambia to the Atlantic and was the front line at the time #AngolanCivilWar https://youtu.be/L9alHiz6O44 via @YouTube

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22 Jan

Winnie Mandela in Court in Krugersdorp #SouthAfrica on 22 January 1986; She was answering a charge that she violated a ban from visiting her home in Soweto

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22 Jan

22/23 January 1986- "We will not be a soft option for any Tom, Dick and Harry who wants to attack us": 42 people were killed In tribal fighting between Zulus and Pondos near Durban #SouthAfrica, and fleeing Pondos fired their homes, leaving 40,000 homeless

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22 Jan

22 January 1977- "A real deadly read": ZAPU vice president Jason "JZ" Moyo was blown up by a #Rhodesia CIO parcel bomb in Lusaka #Zambia

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21 Jan

21 January 1976: UNITA guerrilla leader Jonas Savimbi speaking from Lusaka #Zambia on the situation in #Angola #AngolanCivilWar https://youtu.be/MsSSrj0-_6c via @YouTube

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21 Jan

"I am a simple African man, doing my duty in my own country in the context of our time": Amilcar Cabral, revolutionary anti-colonial leader of the PAIGC guerrilla movement in #Guinea-Bissau, assassinated on 20 January 1973 eight months before independence from #Portugal

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21 Jan

Portuguese Flechas, or 'arrows', heading for a helicopter in #Angola; established in 1966, they were a indigenous multiracial unit mostly led by whites specializing in tracking, intelligence gathering and reconnaissance of guerrillas

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21 Jan

21 January 1972: After eight blacks were shot dead by police in Umtali the previous night, Ian Smith made a nationally broadcast address in #Rhodesia, calling blacks 'stupid' to reject the independence deal with #Britain and "they will bear the curses of their children forever"

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21 Jan

21 January 1987- Operation MARION KwaMakhutha Massacre: @IFPinParliament Zulu gunmen attacked a house in KwaMakhutha outside Durban, killing 13 people, including seven children

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21 Jan

21 January 1978: blacks leaving "protected villages" for shanty towns in Salisbury #Rhodesia https://youtu.be/mTeCuszf-Wo via @YouTube

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21 Jan

21 January 1963- Operation GRAND SLAM: @UN troops occupied Kolwezi #Congo, the last bastion of Katangese resistance; Bob Denard, Jean Schramme and 4,000 gendarmes would head for the border town of Dilolo and exile in #Angola

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21 Jan

Operation GRAND SLAM: Nuns cross the temporary repaired bridge over the Lufira river, one of seven bridges repaired by the ONUC @UN on the way to capturing Jadotville and Kolwezi 21 January 1963

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21 Jan

Operation SERVAL: #France France troops of Marine Regiment 21 RIMa advance north into rebel-occupied #Mali; here a Renault VAB APC stands guard in the town of Niono 21 January 2013

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21 Jan

Operation UMOJA WETU: Some of the thousands of #Rwanda RPA troops crossing into #Congo on 20 January 2009 to join the @FARDC_ in a joint offensive against the FDLR guerrillas

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21 Jan

20 January 2009 -Operation UMOJA WETU: 4,000 #Rwanda RPA troops began crossing into #Congo to begin a joint offensive with @FARDC_ to fight the FDLR Hutu militia

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21 Jan

16 January 2009: The Ihusi Declaration was signed in Goma between #Rwanda and #Congo ending the CNDP Rebellion and allowing RDF troops into the #DRC to fight the FDLR

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20 Jan

20 January 1986: Three weeks after a #SouthAfrica blockade began, a military coup in Maseru, Lesotho led by General Justin Lekanhya deposed Chief Leabua Johnathan; #Lesotho is one of only two nations that exist completely within another country

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20 Jan

20 January 1962: Anthony Gizenga, who had set up a rival government in Stanleyville, arrives back in Leopoldville aboard a @UN plane; he would be arrested, eventually imprisoned on Bulembemba island at the mouth of the #Congo river, remaining there till released in 1964

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20 Jan

20 January 1993: UNITA guerrillas captured the town of Soyo and its nearby oil fields at the mouth of the #Congo River #Angola #AngolanCivilWar

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19 Jan

18 January 2002: after nearly eleven years, #SierraLeone President Ahmad Kabbah, shown here signing the Lome Peace accord with RUF rebel leader Foday Sankoh on 7 July 1999, officially declared the civil war over #SierraLeoneCivilWar

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19 Jan

A Houthi rebel drone and missile Attack on #Yemen Military Base has killed at Least 76; Houthi rebels captured the capital Sana in 2014 and the President lives in exile in #SaudiArabia https://nyti.ms/2ucr480

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19 Jan

Residents walk by government @FARDC_ troops and a technical preparing to fight against rebel group ADF north of Beni near Kokola in North Kivu eastern #Congo on 18 January 2014

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19 Jan

Cuban and MPLA soldiers in the seaside town of N'Zeto, colonial name Ambrizete, north of Luanda recently captured from #SouthAfrica and #Zaire backed FNLA faction on 19 January 1976 #AngolanCivilWar

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19 Jan

How U.S. Firms Helped Africa’s Richest Woman, Isabel dos Santos, Exploit Her Country's Wealth #Angola https://nyti.ms/2ueb9WV

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19 Jan

19 January 1984: "Free and fair elections cannot happen with Cuban forces menacing north of the border" said #SouthAfrica Foreign Minister RF Botha as he rejected a #Angola peace proposal #BorderWar

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19 Jan

The Israeli-built 155 mm G-4 saw its first and only operational use in ASKARI; they were not up to bush conditions and only acquired until the G-5 was ready #BorderWar

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19 Jan

18 January 1984- Witness to Operation ASKARI, Lt Ian Scott: by 18 January all SADF forces were back in SW Africa; In the six week operation beginning on 8 December 1983, 25 #SouthAfrica soldiers had been killed to 324 #Angola FAPLA/SWAPO #BorderWar

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19 Jan

16 January 1994: PAC President Clarence Makwetu announced the APLA had suspended the armed struggle #SouthAfrica https://youtu.be/zOVkYoZusHQ via @YouTube

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18 Jan

Operation SERVAL: French soldiers armed with FAMAS rifles and a PanHard VBL light armoured vehicle in Bamako #Mali 18 January 2013

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18 Jan

18 January 1972: Three days of rioting in Gwelo left one black dead; former Prime Minister Garfield Todd was arrested; blacks were protesting the Independence deal with Britain. Pearce Commission was in #Rhodesia canvassing black opinion https://youtu.be/6NmpwjTVUGM via @YouTube

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17 Jan

17 January 1964: The Kwilu Rebellion led by Pierre Mulele began in Kwilu province of central #Congo; along with the Simba revolt, it would lead to the return of Moise Tshombe as Premier in July 1964 and intervention by Belgium and mercenaries

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17 Jan

#Congo statesman Patrice Lumumba, first premier of Congo after independence, was @executedtoday with two aides by Tshombe regime in Katanga with aid of #Belgium 17 January 1961 http://www.executedtoday.com/2009/01/17/1961-patrice-lumumba-congo/?platform=hootsuite

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17 Jan

17 January 1977: Eight black nationalists were @executedtoday by hanging for acts of terrorism and sabotage in Salisbury #Rhodesia

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17 Jan

17 January 1963- Operation GRAND SLAM: Katanga President Moise Tshombe agreed to surrender his last stronghold of Kolwezi #Congo to the ONUC @UN and renounce independence

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17 Jan

#RDC #Beni 🇨🇩: Les Forces armées de la RDC concentrent désormais leurs efforts sur la traque d'Afande Musa Baluku, commandant de l'ADF (allied democratic forces) sur le territoire congolais. Il est le dernier leader connu du groupe armé ougandais présent en RDC. #EnnemiPublicN1

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