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January 28, 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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At a news conference in Kampala #Uganda on 27 January 1971 the day after his putsch, Idi Amin accused the deposed Milton Obote of indulging in "drink, smoking and women and maintaining an idle lifestyle at public expense"

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27 January 1986: NRA forces captured Jinja, the second largest city in #Uganda, and home to Owen Falls hydroelectric station on Lake Victoria #LiberationDay20

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The Leopard mine protected vehicle; 800 Leopards were built during the war, 67 detonated landmines with only one person killed and 41 injured most from not strapping in #Rhodesia

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A family arrives in their Leopard mine protected vehicle for a get together of farmers and 3 commando RLI at Leopard Rock Hotel in eastern #Rhodesia on 27 January 1980 #Zimbabwe

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27 January 1980- "Whites need not harbour fear and anxieties about government under my rule": self-exiled Robert Mugabe returned to Southern #Rhodesia at a rally in Salisbury attended by over 150,000 http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/27/newsid_2506000/2506219.stm

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26 Jan

France's defence minister departs for Washington on Sunday hoping to convince officials to keep US soldiers in West Africa, where French authorities are under pressure after years of trying to bolster local forces against Islamic extremists http://u.afp.com/34er

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26 Jan

26 January 1986: After a two-day battle, The National Resistance Army, NRA, of @KagutaMuseveni
captured Kampala #Uganda and overthrew the military government of Tito Okello #LiberationDay20

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26 Jan

Operation SERVAL: Panhard ERC 90 Sagaie armoured car deploys northeast of the capital of Bamako #Mali at Sevare on 26 January 2013

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26 Jan

26 January 1976: UNITA guerrilla leader Jonas Savimbi visits the front lines in #Angola #AngolanCivilWar https://youtu.be/U0ktw5DkBt4 via @YouTube

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26 Jan

Four Cuban-manned MIG-17F fighters, with another in flight, and two Portuguese C-47 transports at Luanda IAP on 25 January 1976 #Angola #AngolanCivilWar

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26 Jan

26 January 1983- "A moment of madness" #Gukurahundi began: ZNA #NorthKorea trained 5th Brigade was deployed to quell unrest in Matabeleland #Zimbabwe formerly #Rhodesia; the ensuing violence would result in the deaths of 8,000-20,000 people

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26 Jan

26 January 1971-"He is free to come back to #Uganda- if he wishes to come back": President Milton Obote was at Commonwealth Conference in Singapore when Amin activated his putsch; Obote would not return until 1980

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26 Jan

25 January 1997- "This is not a country, it is a dependency": The Bangui Peace Agreements were signed between the #CentralAfricanRepublic Patasse government and opposition groups ending the army mutinies that saw 500 killed and French military intervention in Operation ALMANDIN

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25 Jan

VIDEO: Jammeh ruled Gambia with an iron fist but fled in January 2017 after losing a presidential election to relative unknown Adama Barrow which he refused to acknowledge before being forced out of power by a popular uprising

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25 Jan

Workers remove a painting of Hendrik Verwoerd, then Prime Minister, and his cabinet from Volksraad House of Assembly building lobby in Cape Town #SouthAfrica on 25 January 1996

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25 Jan

Prime Minister Ian Smith of #Rhodesia and Minister PK van der Byl at a press conference in Salisbury to update progress of Internal settlement negotiations on 25 January 1978

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25 Jan

A Sherman tank parked outside Major General Idi Amin's house in Kampala #Uganda after the military coup on 25 January 1971

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25 Jan

Ousmane Balde, Barry III, Magassouba Moriba, Loffo Camara, Keita Kara Soufiana, and many others
@executedtoday by hanging in Conakry #Guinea 25 January 1971 for alleged complicity in Portuguese Operation GREEN SEA invasion http://www.executedtoday.com/2012/01/25/1971-ousmane-balde-barry-iii-magassouba-moriba-loffo-camara-keita-kara-soufiana-and-many-others-in-conakry/

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25 Jan

25 January 1971: The #Uganda Army, led by Major-General Idi Amin, staged a coup d'etat and ousted President Milton Obote, who was away in Singapore

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25 Jan

23 January 2009: Cornered by combined RDF-
@FARDC_ forces near border town of Bunagana, deposed CNDP warlord Laurent Nkunda crossed into #Rwanda and was arrested

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25 Jan

25 January 1980-"Their demands were never considered" Silverton Bank Hostage Siege: Three ANC/MK guerrillas took 25 people hostage in a bank near Pretoria #SouthAfrica; the three gunmen and two hostages were killed when police stormed the bank

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25 Jan

Operation SERVAL: Panhard ERC 90 Sagaie armoured cars of the French 1st foreign Legion Cavalry Regiment 1er Regiment etranger de cavalerie at Mopti base #Mali on 25 January 2013

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25 Jan

Africa’s Richest Woman, Isabel dos Santos, daughter of former president José Eduardo dos Santos, Set to Face Charges in #Angola Over Embezzlement https://nyti.ms/2TR1xw4

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24 Jan

A #Rhodesia security force mine-protected Land-Rover that detonated a land mine with its left rear wheel- the passengers were unharmed

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24 Jan

A Pookie mine detection vehicle at a base in the #Rhodesia bush; using Formula 1 racing tires acquired from the Kyalami track near Johannesburg #SouthAfrica allowed the Pookies' weight to be distributed so as to not detonate landmines

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24 Jan

President Tshisekedi’s push for Burundi, Rwanda and Uganda to send troops to root out rebels from the DRC is a high-stakes gambit.
http://bit.ly/Africab150

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24 Jan

24 January 1987- TOYOTA WAR- #Tchad #Chad FANT government forces captured the #Libya stronghold of Zouar in the Tibesti mountains 150 miles from the Libyan frontier #ToyotaWar https://youtu.be/tSekSvP4qB0 via @YouTube

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24 Jan

24 January 2000: After 14 months, the siege of #Zimbabwe troops by RCD rebels and RPA #Rwanda forces at Ikela in central #Congo was lifted #SecondCongoWar

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24 Jan

Gazelle helicopters of the Helicopter battalion arrive at Sevare Airport #Mali as part of its deployment for Operation SERVAL 23 January 2013

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23 Jan

23 January 2008- Goma Accords: The #Congo government signed an agreement with CNDP of Laurent Nkunda and 21 other armed groups to end fighting in the eastern #Congo

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23 Jan

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 Jan

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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23 Jan

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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23 Jan

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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