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April 2, 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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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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1 Apr

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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1 Apr

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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1 Apr

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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1 Apr

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 Mar

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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31 Mar

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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31 Mar

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 Mar

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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31 Mar

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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31 Mar

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 Mar

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

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30 Mar

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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30 Mar

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 Mar

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 Mar

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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30 Mar

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

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28 Mar

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 Mar

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

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28 Mar

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 Mar

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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28 Mar

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 Mar

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

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27 Mar

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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27 Mar

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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27 Mar

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

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27 Mar

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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26 Mar

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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26 Mar

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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26 Mar

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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26 Mar

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 Mar

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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25 Mar

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 Mar

Fighters of the Seleka rebel coalition out side the presidential palace in Bangui #CentralAfricanRepublic on 25 March 2013; Michel Djotodia declared himself President after Francois Bozize fled the country

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25 Mar

24 March 1979: Conjuring a Revolution: The Moshi Unity Conference convened in Moshi #Tanzania to unite anti-Amin oppostion groups into the #Uganda National Liberation Front UNLF #UgandaTanzaniaWar

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25 Mar

24 March 1977: Combined Operations HQ, COMOPS, was formed to direct the #Rhodesia war effort under a unified military command with Army commander Peter Walls as Supremo and Air Marshall Mick McClaren as Deputy #RhodesianBushWar

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24 Mar

24 March 1978: The right-wing Rhodesian Action Party held a rally in Salisbury #Rhodesia to denounce Ian Smith and the internal settlement with Black leaders #RhodesianBushWar

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24 Mar

24 March 2013- Seleka rebels entered Bangui, the capital of #CentralAfricanRepublic, and overthrew President Francois Bozie; 13 #SouthAfrica soldiers were killed in the final battle for the city

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24 Mar

Sharpeville Massacre: #SouthAfrica Air Force Harvards fly low over the rioting crowd in Sharpeville protesting pass laws in an attempt to disperse it on 21 March 1960

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24 Mar

21 March 1960- "I don't know how many we've shot. If they do these things they must learn the hard way": In Sharpeville south of Johannesburg,, police opened firing on a crowd protesting #SouthAfrica pass laws, killing 69 and injuring 180 others

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23 Mar

23 March 2009: A peace agreement was signed by the #Congo government and the CNDP ending its revolt and planned CNDP integration of its military into the @FARDC_

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