SKopp — Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1960 France signed an agreement transferring internal autonomy toward independence to the Mali Federation of Senegal and French Sudan; Senegal commemorates this date as its Independence Day.
IndependenceOn this day — April 4 in African history
Real events, births and milestones from Africa and the diaspora.
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SKopp — Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1960 Angola's MPLA government and UNITA rebels signed a peace treaty, formally ending the 27-year Angolan Civil War.
Politics
Jacob Crawfurd / WOMEX — CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons 1939 Hugh Masekela, South African trumpeter and composer known as the 'father of South African jazz,' was born in Witbank, South Africa.
Birth
Andriy Gridyushko — CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons 2011 Georgian Airways Flight 834 crashed at N'djili Airport in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing 32 of the 33 people aboard.
Disaster
Nammarci — CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons 2014 Kumba Yalá, president of Guinea-Bissau from 2000 until a military coup deposed him in 2003, died at a military hospital in Bissau at 61.
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Death