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January 15, 2021

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14 Jan

Luxury Living in a Failed State: There is no place quite like Luanda #Angola one of the most unequal cities on Earth. Half of Angolans live on less than $2 a day and only 42% have regular access to electricity https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/06/01/extreme-city-specter?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=onsite-share&utm_brand=the-new-yorker&utm_social-type=earned via @NewYorker

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14 Jan

Yoweri Museveni and Other African ‘Presidents for Life’; several are now gone https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/13/world/europe/yoweri-museveni-and-other-african-presidents-for-life.html?smid=tw-share

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14 Jan

Ugandans Are Voting. Will Their President of 35 Years Win Again? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/14/world/africa/uganda-elections-bobi-wine-museveni.html?smid=tw-share

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14 Jan

13 January 1999: former #Mali President Moussa Traore and his wife were sentenced to death for embezzlement; Traore had taken power by coup in 1968 and deposed in the same manner in 1991

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13 Jan

"After slavery and colonialism, imperialism has united #Nigeria" read a sign in Rome during demonstrations day after fall of #Biafra on 13 January 1970 #NigerianCivilWar

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13 Jan

"We have arrived at one of the greatest moments in the history of our nation" said Major General Yakubu Gowon, #Nigeria head of state, during a radio address at midnight on 13 January 1970 seven hours after #Biafra surrender #NigerianCivilWar

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13 Jan

The Tragedy of Ignatius Acheampong: Visionary and Kleptocrat; he seized power on 13 January 1972 by coup @AdeyinkaMakinde
https://adeyinkamakinde.blogspot.com/2020/05/the-tragedy-of-ignatius-acheampong.html

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13 Jan

#Ghana President Kofi Busia interviewed in London after being overthrown by a coup on 13 January 1972 https://youtu.be/-n4ylDLuMdg via @YouTube

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13 Jan

13 January 1972- "Report to the nearest police station for your own safety": #Ghana President Kofi Busia was overthrown by a military coup while away in London

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13 Jan

#Ghana President and Mrs Kofi Busia greeting Mrs Nixon, wife of US President , at Accra airport three days before he was deposed in a military coup while in London on 13 January 1972

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13 Jan

13 January 1988- Operation HOOPER: The second attack on FAPLA 21 Brigade at Cuito Cuanavale #Angola #SouthAfricanBorderWar

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13 Jan

Witness to the heliborne assault of SWAPO camp at Cuamato #Angola on 12 January 1981, 44 Para Reg Sgt-Major Peter McAleese #SouthAfricanBorderWar

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13 Jan

Parabats disembark from a Puma during the assault on the SWAPO base at Cuamato #Angola on 12 January 1981 #SouthAfricanBorderWar

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13 Jan

12 January 1977- Operation MANYATELA: First use of Canberra w/alpha bombs and aborted Selous Scout heliborne assault on ZANLA Madulo Pan camp #Mozambique #RhodesianBushWar

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13 Jan

Bullets and panic: an estimated 200 rebels attack #CentralAfricanRepublic capital of Bangui; one @UN soldier killed https://reut.rs/3q96j4S

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13 Jan

Scenes in Lagos as Efiong Announces Surrender of #Biafra 12 January 1970 #NigerianCivilWar https://youtu.be/DfrMmaLgOc8 via @YouTube

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13 Jan

The Fall of Biafra 12 January 1970 by @AdeyinkaMakinde http://adeyinkamakinde.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-fall-of-biafra.html

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13 Jan

12 January 1970: In a six-minute radio address, Chief of Staff brigadier Philip Effiong announced the surrender of #Biafra #NigerianCivilWar

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13 Jan

11 January 2013- Operation SERVAL: French helicopter gunships and mirage jets were committed to action, bombing and strafing a rebel mobile force advancing up the Niger river valley from Konna #Mali

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12 Jan

11 January 1972: The Pearce Commission, sent to #Rhodesia as part of November Smith-Home independence agreement to canvass Black opinion, arrived in Salisbury https://youtu.be/yfYCTnilrtA via @YouTube

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12 Jan

Members of Cuban women's' anti-aircraft unit at a ceremony marking their departure from #Angola 10 January 1989 #SouthAfricanBorderWar

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12 Jan

10 January 1989: 13 years after #Cuba first sent its forces to #Angola, the first 450 troops left from Luanda as part of the December peace agreement #SouthAfricanBorderWar

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11 Jan

6 Park Rangers Ambushed and Killed in Congo Gorilla Reserve @gorillacd northeast of Goma blamed on Mai-Mai militia; 175 rangers have been killed in the park https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/11/world/africa/congo-gorilla-park-rangers-killed.html?smid=tw-share

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11 Jan

11 January 1970: Federal #Nigeria forces captured #Biafra capital of Owerri and its last airstrip at Uli; Odumegwu Ojukwu fled to #IvoryCoast #NigerianCivilWar

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11 Jan

11 January 2013: In Libreville #Gabon, Seleka leader Michel Djotodia and #CentralAfricanRepublic President Francois Bozize signed agreements for a cease-fire and national unity government

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11 Jan

Rhodesian security forces stopping sightseers from entering Lake McIlwaine Park near Salisbury; #Rhodesia began requiring foreign journalists to present dispatches for censorship 9 January 1978 #RhodesianBushWar

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11 Jan

9 January 1977: from Lusaka #Zambia, the so-called front line states #Angola #Tanzania #Mozambique #Botswana announced they would support the Patriotic Front over Bishop Muzorewa's ANC #RhodesianBushWar

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11 Jan

10-13 January 1976- "There has been nothing and now we are going home" said #Kenya's Daniel Arap Moi, as the OAU summit in Addis Ababa #Ethiopia adjourned on 13 January deadlocked over support of the factions in #Angola https://youtu.be/UqQf-g36QmA via @YouTube

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11 Jan

10 January 1976: at first day of OAU summit in Addis Ababa #Ethiopia, Idi Amin diving fully clothed into the Hilton Hotel swimming pool https://youtu.be/ns9sHftdKAw via @YouTube

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11 Jan

FNLA leader Holden Roberto and Jonas Savimbi of UNITA at the OAU summit in Addis Ababa #Ethiopia on 10 January 1976 #AngolanCivilWar

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10 Jan

10 January 2014: Under international pressure, #CentralAfricanRepublic President Michel Djotodia resigned and headed into exile

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10 Jan

5-10 January 2013: An islamist rebel offensive captured Konna and began advancing up the Niger river valley threatening the #Mali capital

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10 Jan

"Determined to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war",147 days after end of WWII the @UN held its first meeting in London on 10 January 1946

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10 Jan

Operation GRAND SLAM- "In spite of all the trouble and bloodshed, I am back" said rebel Katanga President Moise Tshombe upon his return to Elisabethville #Congo on 8 January 1963

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10 Jan

7 January 2003: 26 were sentenced to death, including aide Colonel Eddy Kapend, for the assassination of #Congo President Laurent Kabila in 2001 #SecondCongoWar #FirstCongoWar

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7 Jan

Operation GRAND SLAM: Katanga President Moise Tshombe's wife arriving at Rome airport on her way to Belgium on 7 January 1963 #Congo

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7 Jan

Wreckage of Dakota on banks of Lundi river near Chiredzi #Rhodesia which crashed after striking power lines on 7 January 1977 killing three Rhodesian soldiers #RhodesianBushWar

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7 Jan

A guerrilla assembly point at Inyanga in northeast Southern #Rhodesia on 7 January 1980; it was estimated 19500 alleged ZANLA/ZIPRA fighters had gathered at the 16 assembly areas designated by the cease-fire

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7 Jan

Cry Freetown: video documentary about Second Battle of Freetown #SierraLeone #SierraLeoneCivilWar https://youtu.be/NUCfAOBH3wo via @YouTube

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7 Jan

6 January 1999- Second Battle of Freetown: RUF rebels and its AFRC allies seized by coup de main most of capital of Freetown #SierraLeone; in a nearly three-week campaign of terror and butchery according to @hrw 7,335 were killed and hundreds more mutilated #SierraLeoneCivilWar

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7 Jan

Second Battle of Freetown: RUF rebel fighters of Foday Sankoh arrive in Freetown #SierraLeone on morning of 6 January 1999 #SierraLeoneCivilWar

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7 Jan

5 January 1984- Operation ASKARI: SWAPO leader Sam Nujoma asked @UN secretary Perez de Cuellar to arrange cease-fire talks with #SouthAfrica #SouthAfricanBorderWar

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7 Jan

It Wasn’t Strictly a Coup Attempt. But It’s Not Over, Either. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/07/world/americas/what-is-a-coup-attempt.html?smid=tw-share

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7 Jan

6 January 1997: AFDL commander Andre Kisase Ngandu was killed by Rwandan soldiers outside Goma #Congo; only one of the four original AFDL leaders would survive the #FirstCongoWar and #SecondCongoWar

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