Ceiling of Debre Birhan Selassie church, Gondar, Ethiopia. Photo: Rod Waddington, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Licence · Source
Real events, births and milestones from Africa and the diaspora.
Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1881 Muhammad Ahmad declared himself the Mahdi, the prophesied redeemer of Islam, in Sudan, launching the Mahdist revolt against Ottoman-Egyptian rule.
Sources: Encyclopaedia Britannica ; World History Encyclopedia
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André Cros, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons 1969 Moise Tshombe, the Congolese politician who led Katanga's secession and later served as Prime Minister of the Congo, died in exile in Algeria.
Sources: Encyclopaedia Britannica ; Encyclopedia.com
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Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1992 Mohamed Boudiaf, who had returned from decades of exile to lead Algeria, was assassinated by one of his own bodyguards during a televised speech.
Sources: The New York Times ; Los Angeles Times ; The Africa Report
Death
LTV World through Gebe'ta, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons 2020 Hachalu Hundessa, the Ethiopian singer and Oromo activist whose music became an anthem of political protest, was assassinated, triggering nationwide unrest.
Sources: Al Jazeera ; BBC News
DeathNigeria's Federal Supreme Court dismissed the Eastern Region's suit against the 1963 census figures, ruling that the federal government's acceptance of the count infringed no legal right of the regional government.
Source: Internet Archive
Read the full article: Regions, Census and Elections: Nigeria's Road to Crisis, 1945-1965
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