Etienne Scholasse, European Communities — CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons 2001 Democratic Republic of the Congo President Laurent-Désiré Kabila was shot by one of his own bodyguards in Kinshasa; his death was confirmed two days later.
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Real events, births and milestones from Africa and the diaspora.
Etienne Scholasse, European Communities — CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons 2001 
PMO Barbados — Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 2006 Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was sworn in as President of Liberia, becoming Africa's first elected female head of state.
Politics
Borysk5 — CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons 2012 Tuareg militias of the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad launched an armed rebellion against the Malian government, igniting the Mali War.
Politics
Thilo Parg — CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons 1959 Sade, Nigerian-British singer-songwriter known for her smooth soul sound with the band Sade, was born.
Birth
Claude Truong-Ngoc — CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons 2022 Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, former President of Mali who was ousted in a 2020 military coup, died at age 76.
Death
Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1952 Fuad II was proclaimed King of Egypt and Sudan as an infant, becoming the last monarch of Egypt before the 1953 declaration of a republic.
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