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11 July 1960: France announced it would grant full independence to #Niger, Voltaic Republic(Burkina Faso), Dahomey(Benin) and Ivory Coast in August

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11 July 1960: Premier Moise Tshombe declared the independence of #Congo's Katanga province and called for continued financial and military support from #Belgium #CONGO60

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10 Jul

The 8th Plague, a short film on the great June 2004 West Africa locust invasion that was one of @newhumanitarian 25 great crises of past quarter-century https://youtu.be/X98KOq_0aZU via @YouTube

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10 Jul

'This undermines the struggle": In Duduza 30 miles east of Johannesburg #SouthAfrica, @NobelPrize winner Bishop Tutu intervened to prevent a Black man accused of being a government "stooge" from being incinerated on a burning car on 10 July 1985

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10 Jul

10 July 1960-" The Congo is falling apart": Belgian paratroopers battled mutinous Congolese soldiers in Elisabethville as Belgium began air operations to rescue Europeans throughout #Congo #CONGO60

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10 Jul

10/11 July 1960: Operation MANGROVE, the Belgian sea-borne assault on Atlantic ports of Matadi and Boma #CONGO60 #Congo #DRC

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10 Jul

Nationalist #ZANU leader Rev Ndabaningi Sithole, under a 1975 detention order, returned to #Rhodesia from self imposed exile; he was required to renounce terrorism 10 July 1977 #Zimbabawe

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10 Jul

An Alouette III picks up troops near the confluence of the Mazoe and Nyagui rivers in northeast #Rhodesia 1973 #RhodesianBushWar

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10 Jul

Moise Tshombe, along with Godefroid Munongo, who was Kantanga Interior Minister in secession days of 1960-63, after being sworn in as #Congo Premier on 10 July 1964 #SimbaRevolt #CONGO60

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10 Jul

10 July 1999: In Lusaka #Zambia, the heads of state of #Congo, #Namibia, #Rwanda, #Zimbabwe, #Angola and #Uganda signed the first peace agreement of the #SecondCongoWar; the rebel groups MLC and RCD signed in August

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10 Jul

What happened during Liberia’s civil war? And why does the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami still matter today? How 25 crises shaped history, and what we can learn from them today: https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/Rethinking-humanitarianism-25-crises-shaped-history?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

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9 Jul

Burkina Faso: Residents’ Accounts Point to Mass Executions https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/07/08/burkina-faso-residents-accounts-point-mass-executions

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9 Jul

Over 180 Bodies Found Dumped in Burkina Faso Town, @hrw Report Says https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/07/world/africa/burkina-faso-bodies-military.html?smid=tw-share

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9 Jul

9 July 1960: Belgium mobilized 1,800 soldiers, including paracommados, and began airlifting troops to #Congo to restore order and safe guard Belgian nationals #CONGO60

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9 Jul

Convoy of Europeans fleeing the violence in Elisabethville #Congo, now Lubumbashi, crossing into Northern #Rhodesia, present day #Zambia, on 9 July 1960 #CONGO60

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AdeyinkaMakindeAdeyinka Makinde@AdeyinkaMakinde·
6 Jul

July 6th 1967: Start of the Nigerian Civil War.

Dick Tiger and the Nigerian Civil War
http://adeyinkamakinde.blogspot.com/2017/07/dick-tiger-and-nigerian-civil-war.html

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8 Jul

8 July 1960-End of Force Publique Mutiny: Premier Lumumba dismissed all Belgian officers and re-branded the army as the ANC: Kasavubu named commander in chief and Sergeants Joseph Mobutu and Victor Lundula rise to command #Congo army #congo60

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8 Jul

Force Publique Mutiny: Europeans being turned back from the ferry in Leopoldville on 8 July 1960; mutinous soldiers had seized the crossing to Brazzaville on two-mile wide Congo River after 1,300 managed to cross to escape the violence in the capital #Congo #CONGO60

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8 Jul

SWATF soldiers at the scene of the bomb blast in Windhoek SW Africa which killed one person on 6 July 1988 #AngolanBorderWar

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8 Jul

6 July 1988: A bomb blast wrecked the Klein Windhoek butchery in a suburb of SW Africa capital, killing one person and injuring 18 others #Namibia #AngolanBorderWar

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7 Jul

Police confront demonstrators in Leopoldville #Congo on 7 July 1960; Europeans began fleeing the capital by ferry to Brazzaville after mutinous soldiers rioted in the capital and seized N'Djili airport #CONGO60

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7 Jul

7 July 1999: In Lome #Togo, #SierraLeone President Ahmad Kabbah and RUF leader Foday Sankoh signed a peace accord during the #SierraLeoneCivilWar

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7 Jul

7 July 1969: Sir Humphrey Gibbs, the colonial Governor of Southern #Rhodesia, leaves Government House in Salisbury; he had remained there since UDI was declared in 1965 https://youtu.be/izQW2qhOLo0 via @YouTube

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7 Jul

Zimbabwe spends millions on officials' luxury cars as country goes hungry https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/07/zimbabwe-spends-millions-on-officials-luxury-cars-as-country-goes-hungry?CMP=share_btn_tw

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7 Jul

DR #Congo sends ex-warlords to try resolve conflict in Ituri; FNI commander Mathieu Ngudjolo was acquitted by @IntlCrimCourt and FRPI commander Germain Katanga was convicted of 2003 Bogoro Massacre http://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-africa-47639452?ns_mchannel=social&ns_source=twitter&ns_campaign=bbc_live&ns_linkname=5f03f8671fc5ad0653b5cb30%26DR%20Congo%20sends%20ex-warlords%20to%20try%20resolve%20conflict%262020-07-07T05%3A08%3A31.697Z&ns_fee=0&pinned_post_locator=urn:asset:c77de52d-6ea4-4202-bcd9-c6df8eb72c7a&pinned_post_asset_id=5f03f8671fc5ad0653b5cb30&pinned_post_type=share via @BBCNews

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6 Jul

6 July 1964- "Kamuzu, Kamuzu, Kamazu!": After 73 years as a British protectorate, #Malawi became an independent nation

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6 Jul

Dr Hastings Banda, who would rule #Malawi for 29 years, arrives back in the then Nyasaland of Central African Federation on 6 July 1958 from a 30-year self-imposed exile

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6 Jul

5 July 1978: In Accra #Ghana, Head of State Lt Colonel Ignatius Acheampong was deposed by a coup led by General Fred Akuffo

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6 Jul

6 July 1964: Returning from over a years' exile in Spain, Moise Tshombe was named Premier of #Congo #SimbaRevolt #CONGO60

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6 Jul

SW Africa police Wolf at NANSO congress rally in Katutura township outside Windhoek on 5 July 1986 #Nambia #AngolanBushWar thanks to @iamakwenye for ID of a Wolf, not a casspir

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5 Jul

5 July 1973- " I know that some of you are plotting a coup d'etat. Well, here I am if you want to do it": President Gregoire Kayibanda was overthrown by a military coup in #Rwanda

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5 Jul

Belgium mulls charges over 1961 killing of #Congo's first elected leader Patrice Lumumba https://www.theguardian.com/global/2020/jul/01/belgium-mulls-charges-over-1961-assassination-of-congos-first-elected-leader?CMP=share_btn_tw

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5 Jul

George Floyd’s Killing Prompts Africans to Call for Police Reform at Home https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/03/world/africa/george-floyd-protests-police-africa.html?smid=tw-share

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5 Jul

5 July 1978- Operation TACAUD: #Chad government soldiers of Felix Malloum at Ati in eastern #Tchad; the FROLINAT forces of Goukouni Oueddei were defeated by the French at Ati in May https://youtu.be/fo4vXiDDrxA via @YouTube

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5 Jul

5 July 1977: 12 members expelled from the ruling Rhodesian Front formed the new right-wing Rhodesian Action Party; in the snap 31 August election they wouldn't win one seat in parliament and only 9% of vote as Smith received a mandate https://youtu.be/ohEQhAQD_d8 via @YouTube

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4 Jul

The funeral of hostage Dora Bloch in Israel in 1979; she was @executedtoday 4 July 1976 by Idi Amin in retaliation for the #Israel commando raid; her remains were recovered near Kampala in 1979 after fall of Idi Amin

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4 Jul

Operation THUNDERBOLT-The Entebbe Raid: #Israel Foreign Minister Yigal Allon greets the 103 hostages rescued in the commando raid on Entebbe Airport on 4 July 1976; three hostages were killed, one @IDF soldier, seven hijackers and estimated 20 #Uganda soldiers

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4 Jul

4 July 1994: After a three-month battle, RPF/RPA rebels seized the #Rwanda capital of Kigali #kwibuka26 https://youtu.be/6r9HtEVVpM0 via @YouTube

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3 Jul

2 July 2013: Former #Chad ruler Hissen Habre was arrested in Dakar #Senegal for war crimes and crimes against humanity #Tchad

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