Colonial Twilight
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"Pas de lettres, pas de photos, pas de souvenirs : si tu vis, tu brûles". Histoire politique et militaire de l'Afrique, 1948-à nos jours.
Salisbury, Rhodesia
Joined April 2013
10/13 February 1998- First Battle of Freetown: ECOMOG attacked Sierra Leone capital to drive out Koroma Junta
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10 February 1988: attempted coup d'etat in #Bophuthatswana capital of Mmabatho was crushed by police and SADF troops
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SERVAL: Caesar 155 mm Self-propelled howitzers of 68e Regiment d'artillerie d’Afrique in Tessalit #Mali on 9 February 2013
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9 February 1976: Huambo, the former capital of Savimbi and Roberto's short-lived Democratic People's Republic of #Angola, fell to Cuban and FAPLA forces
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SERVAL: French column enters Tessalit, 125 miles north of Kidal #Mali, after a three-day march form Gao, on 8 February 2013
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8 February 2013- Operation SERVAL: French paratroopers seized Tessalit airport 125 miles north of Kidal in eastern #Mali
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Former #Rhodesia Prime Minister Ian Smith talking to a farmer armed with a pistol, while campaigning for one of the 20 assembly seats reserved for whites, 8 February 1980
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8 February 1962- OAS Assassins! police killed eight lashing out at protesters at left-wing demonstration attended by 10,000 in Paris against OAS bombings video 1:11
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7 February 1962: among 10 OAS bombings that day in France, attempted assassination of Andre Malraux in Boulogne-sure-Seine instead disfigured four-year-old Delphine Renard; @humanite_fr with Delphine on front page; police would kill eight the next day at left-wing demonstrations
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6/8 February 1979- Technical Coup: President Joachim Yhombi-Opango was forced out and replaced by Denis Nguesso-Sassou, who still rules Republic of Congo-Brazzaville today
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Tumult in Algiers: @ParisMatch cover 18 February 1956 on riot unleashed by pied noirs during Premier Guy Mollet's visit to Algiers on 6 February 1956
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LOYADA HOSTAGE RESCUE: a 2e REP legionnaire in the palm grove looking at hijacked bus, 3-7 February 1976
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3/7 February 1976- Loyada Hostage Rescue: Legionnaires rescued 30 children kidnapped on a bus in French Somaliland, snipers killing all seven guerrillas simultaneously
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"I bring no miraculous remedies concocted in Paris": New Premier Guy Mollet lays wreath at war memorial in Algiers at start of riot one hour after he arrived in Algiers, 6 February 1956
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Hostile reception from Algiers for Premier Guy Mollet: thousands of pied noirs took to the streets for the first time, greeting him with shouts of defiance and hatred, and barrage of rotten fruit and clods of earth, on 6 February 1956; one person was killed and 35 injured
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“It seems to me neither fitting nor possible that General Catroux should engage in a conflict of ideas and actions on a national problem of capital importance”: letter of resignation penned hours after the violent riot that greeted Premier Guy Mollet in Algiers on 6 February 1956
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March of up to 20,000 ‘ancien combattants’ (war veterans) in Algiers on 5 February 1956 protesting the appointment of Gen Georges Catroux as new Governor General for #Algeria
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Soustelle, Soustelle, avec nous (with us)!”Ne partez pas(don’t go) “ “ Revenez (come back)!” shouted the pied noirs as Governor- General of #Algeria Jacques Soustelle, departs Algiers on a tank surrounded by thousands of supporters on 2 February 1956
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RT @HisOnyichinaz4: HIS: 1820 - The first organized group of freed enslaved Africans in the US left the country from New York. They travell…
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