Ali Zifan — CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons 2013 A reported coup attempt in South Sudan triggered fighting that escalated into a devastating civil war.
PoliticsOn this day — December 14 in African history
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Ali Zifan — CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons 2013 Mohamed Saad, one of Egyptian cinema's most popular comic actors, was born.
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Radio Okapi — CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons 2014 Louis Alphonse Koyagialo, who served as Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, died.
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