| Week starting Monday 8 December |
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| Date |
Year |
Event
|
|
| 8 |
1906 |
Britain announces intention to intervene in the Congo Free State if Belgian and German atrocities against
natives continues. |
|
| 9 |
1961 |
Tanganyika (now Tanzania) achieves independence. |
| 9 |
1962 |
Julius Kambarage Nyerere is first president of newly formed Republic of Tanganyika. |
| 9 |
1974 |
Portuguese and Rhodesian soldiers are accused in a UN report of torturing and killing over 1,000 Africans
in Mozambique during the war of independence. |
|
| 10 |
1902 |
After four years of construction, the Aswan Dam, Egypt, is declared completed today. |
| 10 |
1952 |
World WarII: North Africa
A strong German attack at Medjez el Bab, Tunisia, is turned by British and Free French defenders. |
| 10 |
1960 |
Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli
is the first black African to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Luthuli was elected president of the ANC in 1952, and although he
was an advocate of peaceful negotiation rather than violence, he led the protests against the 1960 Sharpville shootings and supported the burning of passes. Luthuli was
allowed to leave South Africa in the following year to collect the Peace Prize and was offered political asylum by the US,
which he refused. |
| 10 |
1963 |
Zanzibar gains independence from Britain. |
|
| 11 |
1980 |
Dr Apollo Milton Obote is finally returned to power in Uganda. When it seemed like the opposition DP party
might win, the chair of the military commission 'took over' the counting of ballots. |
|
| 12 |
1924 |
Spanish troops are pushed out of Morocco by Abd el Krim. |
| 12 |
1963 |
Kenya achieves independence from Britain. Jomo Kenyatta becomes prime minister. |
| 12 |
1964 |
Kenya declared a republic. |
|
| 13 |
1958 |
The UN rejects a call for Algerian independence. |
| 13 |
1988 |
Agreement is reached between the US, South Africa, Angola and Cuba for Namibian independence and the
withdrawal of Cuban forces from Angola. |
|
| 14 |
1901 |
Reports reach London of the large number of deaths in South African concentration camps. Six thousand Boer
women and children have dies in the last two months! |
| 14 |
1961 |
Tanganyika (now Tanzania) is admitted to the UN. |
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