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RSS Feed25 September 1976: leaders of the frontline states of #Angola #Tanzania #Mozambique #Botswana met in Lusaka #Zambia to discuss the British-American plan accepted by Ian Smith #Rhodesia and explained to them the week before in visits by Henry Kissinger #RhodesianBushWar
2"Sao Tome's miracle is #Biafra's tragedy": The neutral #Portugal island colony and its airport 200 miles south of #Nigeria became the center of the relief effort for #Biafra during the #NigerianCivilwar 25 September 1968
224 September 1979: Flight Lt J.J. Rawlings @officeofJJR, who had seized power in #Ghana in a putsch in June, handed over power to civilian President Hilla Limann https://youtu.be/PbuGZVosum4 via @YouTube
24 September 1979: The trial of former Equatorial Guinea President Nguema Masie began in a local cinema in capital of Malabo on charges of genocide and mass murder; he had been deposed in a coup led by his nephew in August #equatorialguinea https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9fJS5BxiPg&feature=emb_logo
24 September 1976: excerpt from #Rhodesia Prime Minister Ian Smith national TV broadcast accepting Kissinger proposals for majority rule in two years and an interim government #RhodesianBushWar https://youtu.be/eDsroSEmn8I via @YouTube
22 September 1960- Proclamation de l'indépendance du Mali; The Sudanese Republic, formerly French Sudan, declared its independence from France as Republic of #Mali https://youtu.be/tgQwHlgEHvw via @YouTube
Mass Democratic Movement anti-apartheid rally in Durban #SouthAfrica on 22 September 1989 attracted 15,000; MDM, made up of ANC and UDF supporters, defiance campaign was accompanied by a COSATU work stay away by 3 million workers
220 September 1967: #Nigeria Troops re-captured Benin in mid-western region, abandoned by retreating Biafran soldiers; #Biafra had invaded the region on 9 August but were now in full retreat to Niger River bridge #NigerianCivilWar https://youtu.be/b8iZlp87yAw via @YouTube
22-26 September 1998: South African soldiers and Ratels in a wrecked Maseru #Lesotho during widespread looting; 85 soldiers and civilians were killed in the fighting https://youtu.be/1JEhxepdaXk via @YouTube
‘Hotel Rwanda’ Hero, in Jailhouse Interview, Says He Was Duped Into Arrest https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/17/world/africa/paul-rusesabagina-rwanda-interview.html?smid=tw-share
20 September 1975: antiwar demonstration in Lisbon #Portugal; two days before Portuguese High Commissioner announced Portuguese troops had begun to withdraw from #Angola #AngolanCivilWar https://youtu.be/bNTEBC2-plM via @YouTube
20 September 1978: Prime Minister of #SouthAfrica John Vorster announced his resignation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0yuvIQHoLw&feature=youtu.be
19 September 1976: Ian Smith and Henry Kissinger at their meeting at the American Embassy in Pretoria #SouthAfrica #rhodesianBushWar https://youtu.be/3aLrS6s-FfQ via @YouTube 19
18 September 1969- "You're going to move because you must follow the Government's instructions": 1,500 Tangwena tribesman were forcibly evicted from their ancestral home under the segregationist 1930 Land Apportionment Act, which reserved the area for White's only #Rhodesia
218 September 2000: An attempted putsch in Côte d'Ivoire #IvoryCoast failed; In October, military ruler Robert Guei, who seized power in a coup the previous December, would reluctantly lose an election to Laurent Gbagbo https://youtu.be/4gk-chIPrDM via @YouTube
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