| Week
starting Saturday 23 April |
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| Date |
Year |
Event |
|
| 23 |
1903 |
Muhammed Abdalah Hassan (the 'Mad Mullah') suffers heavy
losses in further encounters with British forces. |
| 23 |
1977 |
UN officials and various missionaries are expelled from
Ethiopia. |
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For more on 23 April |
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| 24 |
1979 |
Abel Tendekayi Muzorewa's United African National
Council has won 51 of the 72 seats available to black candidates (28 are
reserved for white MP's) in national elections in Rhodesia. He will be
inaugurated as prime minister of the new Republic of Zimbabwe on 1 June. |
| 24 |
1993 |
Death of Oliver Tambo (born 1917): South African
political leader, co-founder of the ANC's Youth League, and president of
the ANC from 1980 to 1991. |
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|
For more on 24 April |
|
| 25 |
1941 |
World War II: North Africa
General Erwin Rommel's Deutsches Afrika Korps forces the British out of
Halfaya Pass, just southeast of Sollum, and back to the Buq Buq-Sofafi line
in Egypt. |
| 25 |
1994 |
Last day of white rule in South Africa is marked by the
beginning of a bombing campaign. |
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|
For more on 25 April |
|
| 26 |
1941 |
World War II: East Africa.
The Abyssinian fortress of Dessie, roughly half-way between Addis Ababa and
Amba Alagi, is captured by General Alan Cunningham's South African
divisions. |
| 26 |
1961 |
French Army rebels once again try to take power in
Algeria. |
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|
For more on 26 April |
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| 27 |
1961 |
Sierra Leone achieves independence from Britain. |
| 27 |
1972 |
Death of Kwame Nkrumah, nationalist leader and first
president of Ghana. |
| 27 |
1994 |
First ever multi-racial elections held in South Africa. |
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|
For more on 27 April |
|
| 28 |
1902 |
A punitive expedition is undertaken by the British
against Muhammed Abdalah Hassan (known to the British as the 'Mad Mullah')
in Somalia. |
| 28 |
1936 |
Faud dies and his 16-year-old son, Farouk, becomes King
of Egypt. |
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|
For more on 28 April |
|
| 29 |
1958 |
Egypt pays $81 million for the Suez Canal. |
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For more on 29 April |
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