Tunisia became a French protectorate under the Treaty of Bardo.
PoliticsOn this day — May 12 in African history
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Ana Nascimento/ABr — CC BY 3.0 br, Wikimedia Commons 1929 Sam Nujoma, founding President of independent Namibia, was born.
BirthEritrean forces occupied the border town of Badme, the flashpoint that ignited the two-year Eritrean-Ethiopian War.
HistoryAfriqiyah Airways Flight 771 crashed on approach to Tripoli, Libya, killing 103 of the 104 people aboard.
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Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 2006 Hussein Maziq, who served as Prime Minister of Libya under King Idris, died.
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