Real events, births and milestones from Africa and the diaspora.
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.
Sources: Facts on File World News Digest (Stanford University archive) ; Helion & Company
PoliticsMore than 10,000 African municipal workers staged the largest municipal workers' strike in Johannesburg's history to that point.
Sources: South African History Online ; The Washington Post
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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.
Sources: Voice of America ; The Christian Science Monitor
DeathAir Algérie Flight 5017, en route from Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, to Algiers, crashed in Mali, killing all 116 people aboard.
Sources: Voice of America ; Fox News
DisasterPius Langa, who served as Chief Justice of South Africa and helped shape the country's post-apartheid constitutional jurisprudence, died.
Sources: Constitutional Court of South Africa ; South African History Online
Death