Ceiling of Debre Birhan Selassie church, Gondar, Ethiopia. Photo: Rod Waddington, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Licence · Source
Real events, births and milestones from Africa and the diaspora.
Post of Zanzibar, Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1964 The Zanzibar Revolution overthrew the Sultan of Zanzibar and his mainly Arab government; the new state later merged with Tanganyika to form Tanzania.
Sources: BlackPast ; Pambazuka News
PoliticsCameroonian forces repelled a Boko Haram assault on a military base at Kolofata, near the Nigerian border. The government said 143 fighters were killed along with one Cameroonian soldier, a toll AFP noted could not be independently verified and which later accounts put anywhere between 143 and 300.
Sources: International Crisis Group ; Voice of America
Politics
World Economic Forum, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons 1949 Hamadi Jebali, Tunisian engineer and politician who became prime minister after the 2011 revolution, was born.
Sources: Club de Madrid ; Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Birth
Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1916 P. W. Botha, who as South African prime minister and state president oversaw the height of apartheid-era repression, was born (died 2006).
Sources: South African History Online ; Gale / Encyclopedia.com
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