Real events, births and milestones from Africa and the diaspora.
Painting by Frank Dadd, 1898 — Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1898 At the Battle of Omdurman in Sudan, an Anglo-Egyptian army under Herbert Kitchener decisively defeated Mahdist forces, ending the Mahdist State and establishing British dominance over Sudan.
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Photo by Farid Amadou Bahleman — CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons 1933 Mathieu Kérékou, who later ruled Benin for nearly three decades and oversaw Africa's first successful transition from dictatorship to multiparty democracy, was born in Kouarfa, French Dahomey.
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CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons 1998 The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda convicted former mayor Jean-Paul Akayesu of genocide, the first-ever conviction for genocide by an international court and the first to recognize rape as an act of genocide.
JusticeAt least 129 people died during a mass jailbreak attempt at Makala Prison, the largest prison in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in Kinshasa.
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Photo by Rob C. Croes / Anefo (1979) — CC BY-SA 3.0 NL, Wikimedia Commons 1924 Daniel arap Moi, who later served as Kenya's second president for 24 years, was born in Kuriengwo, Baringo District, Kenya Colony.
BirthOperation OAU, a peace initiative launched by the Organisation of African Unity, began in an effort to end the Nigerian Civil War then raging in Biafra.
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