South African Republic President Paul Kruger crossed into Mozambique to begin his exile during the Second Boer War, never to return to South Africa.
HistoryOn this day — September 11 in African history
Real events, births and milestones from Africa and the diaspora.
Militants attacked the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, killing U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans.
PoliticsStorm Daniel caused two dams to collapse above Derna, Libya, sending a flash flood through the city that killed thousands of people in one of the deadliest floods in modern African history.
Tragedy
Photo by John Mathew Smith — CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons 1941 Minnijean Brown-Trickey, one of the Little Rock Nine students who integrated Little Rock Central High School in 1957, was born in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Birth
Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1950 Jan Smuts, the South African field marshal and statesman who twice served as prime minister and helped found the League of Nations and United Nations, died at his farm near Pretoria.
Death