Tanganyika and Zanzibar merged to form the United Republic of Tanzania, one of the more successful mergers of independent African states.
IndependenceOn this day — April 26 in African history
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Paul Weinberg — CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons 1994 South Africa began its first multiracial general election, a four-day vote won decisively by Nelson Mandela's African National Congress and marking the formal end of apartheid.
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Col. Charles Waterhouse, USMC Art Collection — Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1805 In the First Barbary War, a mercenary force led by U.S. Marines under William Eaton captured the city of Derna in present-day Libya, later commemorated in the Marines' Hymn's 'shores of Tripoli.'
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Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1963 Constitutional amendments in Libya transformed the country into the unitary Kingdom of Libya and extended the right to vote to women.
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Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 2005 Elisabeth Domitien, who served as the first and only female Prime Minister of the Central African Republic, died.
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