Great White Tribe

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

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

Joshua Nkomo campaigning in Salisbury Southern #Rhodesia on 16 January 1980

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

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

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

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

16 January 2001: #Congo President Laurent Kabila was assassinated in Kinshasa #SecondCongoWar

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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

15 January 2019: former #IvoryCoast Presid