Deyda Hydara, the Gambian journalist and press-freedom advocate who co-founded the newspaper The Point, was born.
Sources: The Point ; Reporters Without Borders (RSF)
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Ceiling of Debre Birhan Selassie church, Gondar, Ethiopia. Photo: Rod Waddington, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Licence · Source
On this day: June 9 in African history
Real events, births and milestones from Africa and the diaspora.
Brian Williamson, a pioneering Jamaican LGBT-rights activist who co-founded J-FLAG, was killed.
Sources: Human Rights Watch ; The Gleaner (Jamaica)
DeathAli Kushayb, a Darfur militia commander wanted for war crimes, was transferred into the custody of the International Criminal Court after voluntarily surrendering in the Central African Republic.
Sources: International Criminal Court ; UN News
PoliticsNigerian singer D'banj, who helped popularize Afrobeats internationally, was born.
Sources: The Guardian Nigeria ; BBC News Pidgin
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