Kingkongphoto & www.celebrity-photos.com — CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons Nelson Mandela and F. W. de Klerk jointly received the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo for negotiating the peaceful end of apartheid.
PoliticsOn this day — December 10 in African history
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Echando una mano — CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons 1996 South Africa's new post-apartheid Constitution was signed into law by President Nelson Mandela.
PoliticsEgyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for the Camp David Accords.
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Rémih — CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons 1902 The reservoir of the Aswan Low Dam in Egypt was formally opened.
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Aero Icarus — CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons (aircraft of the same type involved) 2005 Sosoliso Airlines Flight 1145 crashed at Port Harcourt International Airport in Nigeria, killing 108 people, most of them schoolchildren.
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