CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons 2021 Sixty people drown and hundreds go missing after an overloaded boat sank on the Congo River near Longola Ekoti, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
TragedyOn this day — February 15 in African history
Real events, births and milestones from Africa and the diaspora.
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CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons 2015 Islamic State militants beheaded 21 Coptic Christian migrant workers on a beach in Libya, provoking international outrage and mourning in Egypt.
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CC BY-SA 2.5, Wikimedia Commons 1981 Rita Jeptoo, Kenyan marathon runner, was born.
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CC0, Wikimedia Commons 1993 Geoffrey Kondogbia, Central African-born French international footballer, was born.
BirthMuhsin Hendricks was shot dead in Gqeberha, South Africa, as he left to officiate an interfaith wedding. Two masked men fired into his car and drove off. Hendricks had come out as a gay imam in 1996 and built a support network and later a mosque for LGBT Muslims. His family said he had regularly received death threats, and the deputy justice minister said the killing should be investigated as a hate crime.
Sources: Human Rights Watch ; South African Department of Justice
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