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January 18, 2021

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17 January 1961: deposed #Congo premier Patrice Lumumba @executedtoday by firing squad in Katanga province; In 2001, a Belgian commission found Belgium bore "moral responsibility" for his death, and #Belgium officially apologized in 2002 http://www.executedtoday.com/2009/01/17/1961-patrice-lumumba-congo/?platform=hootsuite

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16 Jan

16 January 2009: In Goma, the Ihusi Agreement was signed by #Rwanda #COngo and CNDP ending the rebellion and allowing the @RwandaMoD to enter the #DRC and fight the FDLR #CNDPRevolt

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16 Jan

16-18 January 1972: Three days of rioting in Gwelo #Rhodesia left one black dead and 55 arrested; Blacks were protesting the Pearce Commission holding hearings on black opinion of Smith-Home independence agreement

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16 Jan

Operation SAVANNAH: UNITA guerrillas inspect Benguela railway bridge over Lumege river in northeast #Angola 16 January 1976; MPLA destroyed the bridge to stop the South African advance in December #SouthAfricanBorderWar

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16 Jan

16 January 1994: PAC President Clarence Makwetu announced APLA had suspended armed struggle https://youtu.be/zOVkYoZusHQ via @YouTube

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16 Jan

16 January 1996: #SierraLeone leader Valentine Strasser was deposed in a bloodless military coup led by Julius Maada; he was flown by helicopter to exile in Conakry #Guniea https://youtu.be/NTg924ywjOo via @YouTube

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16 Jan

Operation SERVAL: A Panhard ERC 90 Sagaie leads a column of French military vehicles in Bamako #Mali on 15 January 2013

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16 Jan

15 January 1963-Operation GRAND SLAM: from Kolwezi, Katanga President Moise Tshombe announced he would end secession and implement U Thant @UN plan for reintegration into #Congo and amnesty

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16 Jan

15 January 1975: In Alvor #Portugal, an agreement was signed by UNITA, MPLA, FNLA and President da Costa Gomes on independence for #Angola on 11 November #AngolanCivilWar

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16 Jan

Uganda’s Leader @KagutaMuseveni of 35 Years Is Re-elected Amid Accusations of Vote-Rigging https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/16/world/africa/uganda-election-results.html?smid=tw-share

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15 Jan

9-15 January 1986- Operation JERRY: The 32Bn/recce/ UNITA MRL artillery bombardment of Menongue and Cuito Cuanavale #Angola #SouthAfricanBorderWar

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15 Jan

15 January 1966-The young Majors Coup: An attempted putsch in #Nigeria failed, leaving the Prime Minister and Premiers of two regions dead; power would be handed over to military and General Ironsi the following day

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15 Jan

Nigeria’s First Military Coup on 15 January 1966: My Father as a Witness to
History by @AdeyinkaMakinde http://adeyinkamakinde.blogspot.com/2016/01/nigerias-first-military-coup-my-father.html

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15 Jan

"Nice to see you again. how are you?": Major-General Gowon and Colonel Obasanjo accept #Biafra's surrender at an official ceremony unlike any other in Lagos #Nigeria on 15 January 1970 #NigerianCivilWar

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15 Jan

15 January 2019: former #IvoryCoast President Laurent Gbagbo was acquitted by the @IntlCrimCourt of crimes against humanity; he was forcibly removed from office in 2011 after a five-month civil war after refusing to accept an election defeat

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14 January 1962: The Stanleyville revolt of Antoine Gizenga ended with the surrender en masse of his gendarmes #Congo

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15 Jan

Anti-Balaka fighters with religious amulets 14 January 2014 #CentralAfricanRepublic; although secretive of their content and meaning, they were said to contain soil of ancestors, carry the flesh of enemies killed or to protect them in battle

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15 Jan

14 January 1963- 'Down with the hypocrites, long live the united #Congo": armed with wooden battering rams, 300 students stormed and ransacked the British embassy in Leopoldville over its perceived support for Moise Tshombe and Katanga secession

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

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

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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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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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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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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 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 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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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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