Italian troops launched the Battle of Amba Aradam against Ethiopian defenders during the Second Italo-Abyssinian War.
BattleOn this day — February 10 in African history
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Kenyan security forces rounded up ethnic Somali men at the Wagalla airstrip in Wajir County. The official death toll of 57 rests on a government report that has been widely rejected; survivors and community accounts put the dead in the thousands. Kenya's Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission later called it the country's worst single human rights violation.
Source: Al Jazeera
Tragedy
Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1989 Ron Brown was elected chairman of the U.S. Democratic National Committee, becoming the first African American to lead a major American political party.
PoliticsDeolinda Rodrigues, Angolan revolutionary, writer and independence activist, was born.
Birth
CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons 1977 Salif Diao, Senegalese international footballer, was born.
Birth
Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1995 Naby Keïta, Guinean international footballer, was born.
Birth
CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons 2023 Kiernan Forbes, the South African rapper known as AKA, was shot dead outside a restaurant on Florida Road in Durban, aged 35. His friend the chef Tebello Motsoane was killed in the same drive-by shooting.
Source: Al Jazeera
Death