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3 June 1988 " The month of June must be a period of united and decisive offensive": A @MYANC bomb exploded in the Afrikaans community of Roodepoort #SouthAfrica killing four people and injuring 19 others

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2 June 1978: Two missionaries were killed by ZIPRA guerrillas when they attacked the Embakwe Mission at Plumtree southwest of Bulawayo #Rhodesia #RhodesianBushWar

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31 May 1991 "Settlement from exhaustion" Bicesse Accords: In Lisbon, #Portugal, after 16 years of conflict UNITA guerrilla leader Jonas Savimbi and President Jose Eduardo dos Santos of #Angola signed a peace agreement leading to free elections in 1992

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NPFL guerrilla leader Charles Taylor in the coastal city of Buchanan, south of Monrovia #Liberia on 29 May 1990 after it was captured by his fighters #FirstLiberianCivilWar

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2 Jun

2 June 1966: Former Premier Evariste Kimba and three cabinet ministers "walked unfaltering to the gallows" @executedtoday by hanging before 100,000 in Leopoldville #Congo after Mobutu declared a holiday

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2 Jun

2 June 1977- "If our people weren't being murdered this position wouldn't exist at all": #Rhodesia Defence Minster PK van der Byl has had enough of reporter during interview on Operation AZTEC in #Mozambiquie https://youtu.be/nT-uuKnCkrA via @YouTube

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2 Jun

1 June 1964- Simba Revolt: After 60 Congolese soldiers were massacred by rebels, Premier Cyrille Adoula appealed for @UN assistance to quell the rebellion in eastern #Congo

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1 Jun

1 June 1999: Former #SouthAfrica State President PW Botha's conviction for contempt for failure to appear before the TRC was overturned on appeal

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1 Jun

1 June 1999: #Chad completed the withdrawal of its forces from #Congo #SecondCongoWar

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1 Jun

Police charge into crowd of 2,000 rival ANC supporters in Salisbury's #Rhodesia black Highfield township with dogs, batons flailing on 1 June 1975; 13 were killed, 28 wounded when Police opened fire in 'self-defence' during fighting between ZAPU and ZANU members at ANC meeting

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Operation TACAUD: FROLINAT jeep-mounted 106 mm recoil-less rifle captured in Ati-Jeddah area #Chad during May 1978 battles #Tchad

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31 May-2 June 1978- Operation TACAUD Battle of Jeddah: French Foreign legionnaires, Marines and #Chad troops routed Libyan-backed FROLINAT rebels at Jeddah #Tchad

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18-20 May 1978 Operation TACAUD Battle of Ati: A Libyan-armed FROLINAT rebel force attacked the #Chad garrison at Ati, 430 km northeast of N'Djamena #Tchad

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"We smashed four terrorist camps and killed 32 terrorists": Supremo Peter Walls press conference in Salisbury #Rhodesia for Operation AZTEC on 31 May 1977 #RhodesianBushWar

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31 May 1961: South Africa became a Republic; an all-white referendum in October 1960 had won public approval for leaving the British Commonwealth https://youtu.be/ncncKcl3dLE via @YouTube

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Colonel Ojukwu:" If they try to cross the Niger River, we'll be waiting"; The Federal government blocked the mile-long Niger River bridge on #Biafra western border with Allis-Chalmers earth movers to seal off the last link with #Nigeria on 31 May 1967 #NigerianCivilWar

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30 May 1979: Bishop Muzorewa was sworn in as Prime Minister of #Zimbabwe #Rhodesia https://youtu.be/F7HbYkHZtTk via @YouTube

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30 May 1997: @USMC marines evacuated 900 foreign nationals by helicopter from Freetown #SierraLeone to escape the looting and violence that followed putsch that put Major Johnny Paul Koroma in power #SierraLeoneCivilWar

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30 May 2012: Charles Taylor, former #Liberia President and NPFL warlord, sentenced to 50 years for war crimes during #LiberianCivilWar https://youtu.be/1OBj_Bx1njI via @YouTube

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30 May 1994: RPA/RPF rebels surrounded the last remaining government positions in Kigali #Rwanda #Kwibuka26

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#Uganda fishermen on Lake Victoria removing bodies that washed ashore 28 May 1994; officials said as many as 10,000 bodies had come down the Kagera River from #Rwanda #Kwibuka26

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Operation AZTEC: the wreckage of the #Rhodesia Dakota, said to be Jan Smuts former personal Dak, shot down by RPG-7 taking off from occupied Mapai airfield #Mozambique killing Flt Lt Bruce Collocott on 30 May 1977 #RhodesianBushWar

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30 May 1967: #Nigeria's eastern region seceded, declaring itself the independent Republic of #Biafra #NigerianCivilWar

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Operation AZTEC: The Selous Scout flying column followed the Cabora Bassa power line before heading to Jorge do Limpopo and Mapai on 29 May 1977 #Mozambique #Rhodesia #RhodesianBushWar

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28 May-2 June 1977 Operation AZTEC: The overland Selous Scout and Airborne RLI assault on ZANLA bases in southern #Mozambique #Rhodesia #RhodesianBushWar

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29 May 1997: Before 30,000 at Kinshasa's Kamanyola Stadium and flanked by Museveni #Uganda, Bizimungu #Rwanda, Buyoya #Burundi, dos Santos #Angola and Chiluba #Zambia, Laurent Kabila was sworn in as President of #Congo #SecondCongoWar #FirstCongoWar

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28 May 2001- The Coup too Far: commandos attacked the home of President Ange-Felix Patasse in Bangui in a failed putsch in #CentralAfricanRepublic

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28 May

Operation AZTEC: A Willys jeep mounting a captured 82mm recoilless rifle and 10 ton truck carrying explosives were in the Selous Scout column along with UNIMOGS 28 May 1977 #Rhodesia #RhodesianBushWar

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28 May

Operation AZTEC: A Selous Scout column of 110 men crossed into #Mozambique on 28 May 1977 to combine with a RLI air assault on FRELIMO bases the next day #Rhodesia #RhodesianBushWar

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28 May

28 May 1948- "Today we are at home in our land": Despite being decisively out voted, The National Party defeated Jan Smuts United party and began its 45 year rule of #SouthAfrica

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Libyan Forces Aligned With Tripoli Government Take Key Base From Rivals https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/18/world/africa/libya-tripoli-forces.html?smid=tw-share

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Children sit on a bench along waterfront in Durban #SouthAfrica on 27 May 1960; park benches like this were reserved for whites only

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27 May 1977- "We have ended the march to the Precipice": A leftist putsch led by former Minister Nito Alves was crushed by loyalist forces of Agostinho Neto in #Angola

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27 May 1980: Milton Obote returned from nine years' exile to #Uganda

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26 May

25 May 1988- "As a gift to #Africa, I declare #Libya's recognition of #Chad": In Tripoli, Col. Muammar Qaddafi announced recognition of #Tchad #AfricaDay #AfricaDay2020

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26 May

26 May 1976: #Angola announced 13 mercenaries captured fighting for the FNLA would go on trial on charges of "committing acts of war against the Angolan people"; they faced the firing squad if convicted #AngolanCivilWar

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26 May

25 May 1963: After a four day conference in Addis Ababa #Ethiopia, 30 nations formed the Organisation of African Unity #AfricaDay #AfricaDay2020

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Burundi’s Ruling Party Candidate Wins Presidency https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/25/world/africa/burundi-election.html?smid=tw-share

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24-25 May 1993: Fighting between @MYANC and @IFPinParliament supporters near Johannesburg #SouthAfrica left 35 dead

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25 May 1997: A putsch by rebel soldiers sprung Major Johnny Paul Koroma from prison and toppled the #SierraLeone government #SierraLeoneCivilWar

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Suriname’s President Shrugs Off Murder Sentence in Re-election Bid https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/24/world/americas/suriname-bouterse-election.html?smid=tw-share

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24 May 2008: Congolese MLC Warlord Jean-Pierre Bemba was arrested in Belgium on @IntlCrimCourt war crimes charges committed in #CentralAfricanRepublic #SecondCongoWar

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24 May 1968: Bob Foster KO's Light heavyweight champion Dick Tiger, a Lt in the #Biafra army with a left hook considered "One of the 10 deadliest punches of the last 25 years" #NigerianCivilWar https://youtu.be/QjLgDlOLFA4 via @YouTube

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Second Army Mutiny: foreign nationals boarding a C-160 in Bangui #CentralAfricanRepublic; 3,500 foreign nationals were evacuated during Operation ALMANDIN II 23 May 1996

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20 May 1979: #Tanzania troops take Gulu, location of one of largest air bases in #Uganda #UgandaTanzaniaWar https://youtu.be/Xj6q1EWWHEo via @YouTube

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Burundi Turns Out to Replace President of 15 Years, Pandemic or No https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/20/world/africa/burundi-election.html?smid=tw-share

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23 May 1983: The trial of six white #Zimbabwe air force officers for the July 1982 Project BARNACLE raid on Thornhill air base that damaged or destroyed 13 aircraft began

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23 May 2008: The #Gambia President Yahya Jammeh threatened to behead homosexuals and gave gay people 24 hours to leave the country