Somali government forces and Ethiopian troops captured Mogadishu unopposed during the War in Somalia.
Sources: BBC News ; Associated Press
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Ceiling of Debre Birhan Selassie church, Gondar, Ethiopia. Photo: Rod Waddington, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Licence · Source
On this day: December 28 in African history
Real events, births and milestones from Africa and the diaspora.
A truck bomb detonated in Mogadishu, Somalia, killing at least 85 people; the militant group Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility.
Sources: CNN ; Al Jazeera ; Deutsche Welle
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Warren K. Leffler, Library of Congress, Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1925 Milton Obote, who twice served as President of Uganda, was born.
Sources: Makerere University ; BlackPast
Birth
Government of Ethiopia, Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1924 Girma Wolde-Giorgis, who later served as President of Ethiopia, was born.
Sources: Ethiopian News Agency ; Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ethiopia
Birth
Ultraslansi, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons 1980 Lomana LuaLua, the Congolese-English footballer known for his acrobatic goal celebrations in the Premier League, was born.
Sources: Transfermarkt ; BBC Sport
BirthTwo days before Nigeria's federal election, President Nnamdi Azikiwe urged Prime Minister Abubakar Tafawa Balewa to postpone it for six months so that United Nations experts could help run a free and fair poll. Balewa refused, and the two agreed to put their dispute to a meeting with the regional governors and premiers.
Sources: UCLA Library Digital Collections, Nnamdi Azikiwe Papers (Nigeria) ; Internet Archive
Read the full article: Regions, Census and Elections: Nigeria's Road to Crisis, 1945-1965
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