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
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
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
Operation SERVAL: French Gazelle helicopters arrive in Bamako #Mali on 14 January 2013
4Operation SERVAL: French Panhard ERC 90 Sagaie disembarked at Bamako #Mali airport on 13 January 2013
2#Ghana President Kofi Busia interviewed in London after being overthrown by a coup on 13 January 1972 https://youtu.be/-n4ylDLuMdg via @YouTube
Bullets and panic: an estimated 200 rebels attack #CentralAfricanRepublic capital of Bangui; one @UN soldier killed https://reut.rs/3q96j4S
Scenes in Lagos as Efiong Announces Surrender of #Biafra 12 January 1970 #NigerianCivilWar https://youtu.be/DfrMmaLgOc8 via @YouTube
The Fall of Biafra 12 January 1970 by @AdeyinkaMakinde http://adeyinkamakinde.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-fall-of-biafra.html
211 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
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
Statement from Virunga National Park following the fatal attack on Park Rangers today: https://bit.ly/38w5jSr
10-13 January 1976- "There has been nothing and now we are going home" said #Kenya's Daniel Arap Moi, as the OAU summit in Addis Ababa #Ethiopia adjourned on 13 January deadlocked over support of the factions in #Angola https://youtu.be/UqQf-g36QmA via @YouTube
10 January 1976: at first day of OAU summit in Addis Ababa #Ethiopia, Idi Amin diving fully clothed into the Hilton Hotel swimming pool https://youtu.be/ns9sHftdKAw via @YouTube
Fighting Men of #Rhodesia | Andre Scheepers ep09 #RhodesianBushWar https://youtu.be/nhUh396Oxr4 via @YouTube