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8 March -21 May 1977- SHABA I: The FNLC invasion of Shaba/Katanga Province of Zaire #Congo from #Angola

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SHABA I: Zaire government troops arriving at Kolwezi airfield to combat the two week old FNLC guerrilla invasion from #Angola 25 March 1977 #Congo

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25 March 1978: The leaders of the front-line states of #Zambia, #Botswana, #Mozambique and #Tanzania met in Dar es Salaam with Patriotic Front to discuss the Salisbury Agreement reached by Ian Smith #Rhodesia and moderate black leaders

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25 March 1977 "The only way to deal with counter revolutionaries is to cut off their heads": Alphonse Massamba-Debat was @executedtoday by firing squad a week after the assassination of #Congo Brazzaville President Marien Ngouabi https://t.co/rc5FHpvEfj

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25 Mar

24 March 1977: Combined Operations HQ, Com-Ops ,was formed to direct the #Rhodesia war effort under unified command with Army commander Peter Walls as Supremo and Air Marshall Mick McLaren his deputy

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25 Mar

24 March 1979- Conjuring a revolution : The Moshi Unity Conference convened in Moshi #Tanzania #UgandaTanzaniaWar to unite anti-Amin #Uganda opposition

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23 Mar

23 March 1988 Operation PACKER- Witness to Tumpo 3: Commandant Gerhard Louw, commander of the Olifants of Regiment President Steyn, who won the Honoris Crux #Angola #SouthAfrica; third failed attack at Cuito Cuanavale

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23 Mar

23 March 1979 Operation Dairy: #SouthAfrica/#Rhodesia SAS amphibious raid on Muhata Fuel Depot outside Beira #Mozambique

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22 Mar

18 March 1992: In the last all-white vote in #SouthAfrica, whites voted in a referendum to continue politcal reforms to end apartheid with 69% approving https://t.co/jTXwmCp9z6

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22 Mar

22 March 1987- Toyota War: #Chad forces captured the #Libya military base at Wadi Doum in northern #Tchad #ToyotaWar; the base and military equipment value estimated at near $1 billion

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22 Mar

22 March 1979- Operation Petal: Selous Scout ambush in #Botswana to capture #ZIPRA Intelligence chief Dumiso Dabengwa @DrVChimhutu #Zambia #Rhodesia

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21 Mar

21 March 1977 Shaba I : #Cuba President Fidel Castro said "not a single Cuban" soldier was involved in the invasion of Shaba province in Zaire #Congo by Katangan rebels

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21 Mar

18 March 1977- "He died fighting, his weapon in his hand ": President Marien Ngouabi of #Congo Republic was assassinated in Brazzaville

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20 Mar

March 19/20 1987- Toyota War: At Bir Kora in northern #Tchad, #Chad mobile forces ambushed and destroyed two advancing #Libya mechanized columns

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20 Mar

19 March 1997: With the fall of #Kisangani to AFDL/#Rwanda forces and panic setting in Kinshasa, Army Chief of Staff Mahele Lieko implored his soldiers "Do not extort money. Do not pillage" #Congo #FirstCongoWar

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19 Mar

UPA Uprising; Portuguese troops arrive in Luanda; after the March massacres, #Portugal responded by increasing its troop strength in #Angola from 6,500 to over 33,000 by the end of 1961

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19 Mar

15-18 March 1961- UPA Uprising: Thousands of nationalist guerrillas swept across northern #Angola from #Congo, attacking outposts and towns and killing hundreds of Europeans and Africans

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18 March 1975: #ZANU Chairman Herbert Chitepo was blown up by a booby trap car bomb set by #Rhodesia CIO operators in Lusaka #Zambia

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18 March 1977 "This will not weaken our resolve": US President Jimmy Carter signed bill repealing the Byrd amendment, permitting the US to stop importing #Rhodesia chrome

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17 March 1978: @UN Security Council Resolution 424 was adopted unanimously condemning #Rhodesia Operation Turmoil ,calling raid an "armed invasion" of #Zambia

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17 March 1993: The Executive Outcomes/FAA seaborne and air assault on UNITA-occupied oil port of Soyo #Angola

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16 Mar

Old #Rhodesia Cheetah?

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16 Mar

16 March 1984 " The Agreement on Non-Aggression and Good Neighbourliness": The Accords of Nkomati were signed by #SouthAfrica and #Mozambique

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16 Mar

15 March 1997: The eastern #Zaire #Congo city of Kisangani fell to advancing rebel AFDL and #Rwanda Army forces in the #FirstCongoWar

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15 Mar

15 March 1994- #Bophuthatswana Crisis: ANC President Nelson Mandela visited Mmabatho #SouthAfrica https://t.co/YWbcbhwZxI via @YouTube

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14 Mar

13 March 1994- Baha'i Faith Mission Massacre: APLA gunmen shot dead three whites at the Baha'i Church in Mdantsane outside East London #SouthAfrica

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14 Mar

13/14 March 1982- Witness to Super: Gunship Ace Neall Ellis #Angola #SouthAfrica

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14 Mar

9-14 March 1982-Operation Super: 32 Battalion air assault on PLAN camp near Iona in southwest #Angola killed nearly 200 SWAPO guerrillas and captured a huge arms cache #SouthAfrica

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4-7 March 1990-The Bloodless Coup that turned into Bloody Shambles: A committee of officers led by Brigadier Oupa Gqozo overthew President Lennox Sebe in the "Republic" of #Ciskei #SouthAfrica

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“The way people look at me now, they respect me for what I am doing.” Inês, deminer, HALO #Angola https://t.co/y73Ux3Bux2

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12 March 1994- #Bophuthatswana Crisis: the SADF intervened to restore order and deposed President Lucas Mangope who fled the capital of Mmabatho in a helicopter #SouthAfrica; at least 40 were killed in the disorder

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12 March 1961: At the Tananarive Conference in #Madagascar , Kasavubu, Tshombe and Kalonji agreed to a confederation of states in the #Congo; the follow-up meeting in Coquilhatville in April would see the arrest of #Katanga President Moise Tshombe

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11 March 1994 #Bophuthatswana Crisis: the blundering intervention by two white rightist militias ended with three AWB members gunned down by Bop security forces #SouthAfrica

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11 Mar

10-11 March 1979- The Battle of Lukaya: Gaddafi intervenes in #Uganda and the biggest battle of the #UgandaTanzaniaWar #Tanzania

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11 Mar

In #SouthAfrica, a Sense of Security Draws Many to Golf Communities https://t.co/PUnvTI5JL7

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10 Mar

10 March 1994- #Bophuthatswana Crisis: rioting and looting in Mmabatho as Black Homeland Collapses #SouthAfrica https://t.co/rfTJZAZ299 via @YouTube

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10 Mar

7-10 March 1994 "This is the kick of a dying horse"-#Bophuthatswana President Lucas Mangope announcement that the black homeland would not participate in elections led to a civil strike, rioting, looting,a mutiny by defence forces and intervention by the White Right #SouthAfrica

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9 Mar

In #SouthAfrica’s Fabled Wine Country, White and Black Battle Over Land https://t.co/Q0SOqsaCUt

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8 Mar

President Moise Tshombe of breakaway Katanga province and Albert Kalonji of Kasai Mining State at Tananarive on island of #Madagascar for conference of leaders of #Congo factions on 8 March 1961

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7 Mar

7 March 1993: After a 55 day battle, UNITA guerrillas captured Huambo, #Angola second largest city, from government FAPLA/FAA forces; an estimated 10,000 were killed https://t.co/e8LMQB8Zrq

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6 Mar

At a news conference in Leopoldville (now Kinshasa), two Canadian soldiers described how Congolese troops seized the port city of Matadi from the @UN 6 March 1961

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6 Mar

4-5 March 1961: After a two-day battle @UN troops were driven from the port city of Matadi on #Congo River by #Congolese Army troops

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2-4 March 1979 "We have crushed and killed all the aggressors": Ugandan exile rebels crossed the #Kenya border and attacked the #Uganda military barracks at Tororo east of Kampala

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3 March 1999 "Americans and British, we dont want you on our land": Eight tourists were hacked or bludgeoned to death by #Rwanda Hutu rebels in the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, home of rare mountain gorillas, in #Uganda @ugwildlife

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A column of three BTR-60 APC and a T-54 tank In Luanda #Angola on 4 March 1976

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4 March 1980: Robert Mugabe won election victory with 63% of the vote and became Prime Minister of #Zimbabwe #Rhodesia https://t.co/XpEjI2V6JU

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3 Mar

3 March 1978: #Rhodesia Ian Smith reached an agreement with Black leaders Bishop Muzorewa, Ndabingi Sithole and Chief Jeremiah Chirau on an internal settlement that would provide for black rule by the end of year

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3 Mar

3 March 1976: President Samora Machel announced he was closing the #Mozambique border with #Rhodesia