Cyrene Magazine, Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1977 Egypt and Libya agreed to a ceasefire, mediated by Algeria and the PLO, ending their brief border war.
PoliticsOn this day — July 24 in African history
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Cyrene Magazine, Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1977 More than 10,000 African municipal workers staged the largest strike in Johannesburg's history to that point.
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Simon Wedege (Kirjapan), CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons 2012 Ghanaian President John Atta Mills died suddenly in Accra; John Dramani Mahama was sworn in as his successor the same day.
DeathAir Algérie Flight 5017, en route from Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, to Algiers, crashed in Mali, killing all 116 people aboard.
DisasterPius Langa, who served as Chief Justice of South Africa and helped shape the country's post-apartheid constitutional jurisprudence, died.
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