Amadou Hampate Ba, the Malian writer and ethnologist who preserved West African oral traditions in print, died.
DeathOn this day — May 15 in African history
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Ricardo Stuckert/PR — CC BY 3.0 br, Wikimedia Commons 2013 Henrique Rosa, who served as President of Guinea-Bissau, died.
DeathGhana launched CanSat, a small satellite payload used to train students in space science, part of its early space-programme efforts.
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Ahmed ABDELMOUMEN — CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons 1955 Mohamed Brahmi, Tunisian politician later assassinated during the country's post-revolution turmoil, was born.
BirthEgypt and other Arab states invaded the newly declared state of Israel, beginning the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
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