CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons 2021 Sixty people drown and hundreds go missing after an overloaded boat sinks 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 behead 21 Coptic Christian migrant workers on a beach in Libya, provoking international outrage and mourning in Egypt.
Tragedy
CC BY-SA 2.5, Wikimedia Commons 1981 Rita Jeptoo, Kenyan marathon runner, is born.
Birth
CC0, Wikimedia Commons 1993 Geoffrey Kondogbia, Central African-born French international footballer, is born.
BirthMuhsin Hendricks, South African imam and Islamic scholar known as one of the world's first openly gay imams, is shot dead near Cape Town.
Death