2004 -- Jean de Dieu Kamuhanda, a former Minister of Education in Rwanda, is found guilty of genocide and sentenced to life in prison.
For more on 22 January.
1970 -- The leader of the Biafran rebels, General Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, is granted political asylum in the Cote d'Ivoire.
1978 -- Fighting resumes between Ethiopian troops and Somali forces in the disputed Ogaden Desert.
2005 -- General Yusuf Ahmed Sarinle, the Chief of Police in Mogadishu, Somalia, is assassinated.
For more on 23 January.
1979 -- Dr Connie Mulder, formally the Minister for Information, resigns from the South African parliament as a result of the ongoing 'information scandal' which is being called 'Muldergate' in the South African press. The scandal involved the government funding an English-language, pro-government newspaper in Johannesburg called the Citizen.
For more on 24 January.
1971 -- President Apolo Milton Obote, who is attending the Commonwealth Conference in Singapore, has been overthrown by his army commander, General Idi Amin Dada. Obote is accused of corruption and tribalism by the new government.
2005 -- The Swaziland Federation of Trade Unions holds a two day general strike in protest against King Mswati III's authoritarian rule.
For more on 25 January.
1986 -- President Tito Lutwa Okello, Chairman of the Military Council of Uganda, is removed from power by the National Resistance Army, NRA. The leader of the NRA, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, is to be president.
1976 -- Soviet-built MiGs are observed in the Angolan conflict.
For more on 26 January.
1980 -- Robert Mugabe, leader of ZANU (Zimbabwe African National Union), is allowed to return home to Rhodesia, the first time in five years.
For more on 27 January.
1971 -- President Idi Amin Dada of Uganda bans all political parties.
1995 -- Louis Farrakhan, the leader of the Nation of Islam sect, meets with South African President Nelson Mandela.
For more on 28 January.
