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On ‘Rooftop of Africa,’ Ethiopia’s Troops Hunt Fugitive Former Rulers https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/22/world/africa/ethiopia-tigray-conflict-abiy.html?smid=tw-share

22/23 January 1986-"We will not be a soft option for any Tom, Dick and Harry who wants to attack us": in the third round of clashes between Zulus and Pondo's outside Durban #SouthAfrica 42 were killed, 10,000 homes destroyed and 40,000 left homeless

22 January 1977- "A Deadly Read": ZAPU Vice President JZ Moyo was blown up by a #Rhodesia CIO parcel bomb in Lusaka #Zambia #RhodesianBushWar

22 January 1976: UNITA forces in its HQ city of Silva Porto, now Kuito; Cuban armor columns were rapidly approaching Novo Lisboa (Huambo) the UNITA/FNLA capital as #SouthAfrica began its withdrawal from #Angola #angolancivilwar https://youtu.be/L9alHiz6O44 via @YouTube

21 January 1987- Operation MARION and the Kwamakhutha massacre: 13 people were killed by Inkatha gunmen outside Durban #SouthAfrica including seven children

21 January 1963- "You have fought bravely against the enemy three times in past 2-1/2 years. Now the time has come to cooperate with the @UN": ONUC forces walked into Kolwezi unopposed, ending the Katanga secession

Operation SERVAL: French VBC 8x8 APC in #Mali 21 January 2013

Operation SERVAL: French troops of 21 RIMa advance north into rebel occupied #Mali from Bamako on 21 January 2013; here a Renault VAB APC stands guard in Niono

21 January 1978: Blacks leaving protected villages for shantytowns outside Salisbury #Rhodesia; security forces resettled hundreds of thousands to keep them away from nationalist guerrillas #RhodesianBushWar https://youtu.be/mTeCuszf-Wo via @YouTube

Operation GRAND SLAM: Nuns crossing the Lufira bride, one of seven bridges repaired by the @UN on the way to Kolwezi northwest of Elisabethville #Congo on 21 January 1963

Suicide Bombings in Crowded Baghdad #Iraq Market Kill at Least 32 https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/21/world/middleeast/baghdad-market-bombing.html?smid=tw-share

21/22 January 1979- The destruction of Mutukula: The #Tanzania invasion of #Uganda began #UgandaTanzaniaWar

Violence at a patriotic front rally in Bulawayo Southern #Rhodesia where the crowd attacked a suspected police agent 21 January 1980

His secession and rival government undone in Stanleyville, Antoine Gizenga returned to Leopoldville #Congo on 20 January 1962 under @UN protection; instead he was turned him over to central government, arrested and would remain in custody until July 1964

20 January 1986: A military coup toppled Chief Leabua Jonathan, the only ruler of #Lesotho since independence; #SouthAfrica had instituted a 20-day blockade to force the turnover of ANC guerrillas

20 January 2009: @RwandaMoD RDF forces began crossing the border into #Congo, beginning Operation UMOJA WETU with the @FARDC_

Operation UMOJA WETE: @RwandaMoD RDF troops and vehicles roll across the border to join @FARDC_ forces in joint operation to combat the FDLR on 20 January 2009

20 January 2017- “I am truly and sincerely proud of being of service to you”: Two days after Senegalese troops entered #The_Gambia to persuade him, Yahya Jammeh stepped down as The #Gambia President

20 January 1973: Amilcar Cabral, leader of Portuguese #Guinea guerrilla movement PAIGC in Conakry was assassinated by the "poisoned hands of imperialism and Portuguese colonialism"

21 January 1976- "The Cubans or Russians have no right to kill Angolans": Facing a increasingly desperate situation for UNITA with #SouthAfrica withdrawal beginning, Jonas Savimbi speaks from Lusaka #Zambia #AngolanCivilWar https://youtu.be/MsSSrj0-_6c via @YouTube

19 January 1988- Operation HOOPER: UNITA attack on FAPLA 25 Brigade on the Chambinga 15 km east of Cuito Cuanavale #Angola #SouthAfricanBorderWar

#CentralAfricanRepublic President Faustin-Archange Touadera begins second term amid turmoil
https://www.africanews.com/2021/01/19/car-president-faustin-archange-touadera-begins-second-term-amid-turmoil/

A Cuban Ural truck-mounted BM-21 MRL in Luanda #Angola: barrage by these MRL were instrumental in terrifying and routing FNLA and Zaire soldiers north of Luanda and causing the collapse of the FNLA in January 1976 #AngolanCivilWar

19 January 1976-Operation SAVANNAH: from Kinshasa , FNLA leader Holden Roberto claims "There is no question of collapse", but Cuban armour columns and MRLs rout FNLA and capture coastal strongholds of Ambriz and Ambrizete, now N'Zeto #AngolanCivilWar

18 January 1987: Alice Auma's Holy Spirit Movement and the slaughter at Battle of Corner Kilak #Uganda

Operation SERVAL: French soldiers armed with FAMAS rifles with a Panhard VBL scout car in Bamako #Mali on 18 January 2013

16/18 January 1976- Operation SAVANNAH: Roberto and Savimbi are told #SouthAfrica plans to withdraw from #Angola; Savimbi meets PW Botha at Rundu in SW Africa #SouthAfricanBorderWar

‘There Is No Safe Area’: In Kabul, Fear Has Taken Over https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/17/world/asia/afghanistan-kabul-taliban-violence.html?smid=tw-share

18 January 1972: Three days of rioting in Gwelo #Rhodesia left one dead and 55 arrested demonstrating against presence of Pearce Commission canvassing Black opinion on Smith-Home independence pact; former Prime Minister Garfield Todd was arrested https://youtu.be/6NmpwjTVUGM

Four members of #Namibia Defense Forces were killed when their casspir overturned between Ondangwa and Oshakati on 15 January 1993

Colonel Samuel Chiwale, commander of FALA armed wing of UNITA since 1969, at Bucaco northeast of Luso(now Luena) #Angola on 17 January 1976 #AngolanCivilWar

17 January 1966: Maj. Gen. Aguiyi-Ironsi's Press Conference After #Nigeria's First coup; the government handed over power to the military the day before https://youtu.be/mqqIEgRJdm0 via @YouTube

Col. Acheampong States the Aims of his Military Govt. on 17 January 1972 After Overthrowing Kofi Busia five days earlier #Ghana https://youtu.be/4YeuJteJVY0 via @YouTube

17 January 1961: deposed #Congo premier Patrice Lumumba @executedtoday by firing squad in Katanga province; In 2001, a Belgian commission found Belgi