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Watch about the life story of Uganda's Chief Justice Benedicto Kiwanuka and why he was killed.
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For over 30 years, the world has hunted Joseph Kony.

His LRA rebellion began in northern Uganda, abducting children and terrorizing civilians.

The ICC issued a warrant for his arrest in 2005.

Then Kony vanished into Central Africa.

In 2012, the world learned his name.

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In 1960, Senegal and the Sudanese Republic united as the Mali Federation.

Just months later, Senegal withdrew and the federation collapsed.

But the Sudanese Republic kept the name.

On September 22, it became the Republic of Mali, reviving the name of the ancient Mali Empire.

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Mobutu ruled Zaire for 32 years.

Then Laurent Kabila’s rebels swept across the country.

In May 1997, Mobutu fled.

Kabila seized Kinshasa, took power, and renamed Zaire the DRC.

But then, his former allies turned against him…

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In 1959, Hutu politician Dominique Mbonyumutwa was attacked.

Rumors spread that he had been killed.

He survived.

But the rumor triggered deadly violence, burned homes, and mass displacement.

Within two years, Rwanda’s centuries-old monarchy was gone.

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Seychelles had been independent for just 84 days when it got a seat at the UN.

On September 21, 1976, the tiny island nation was admitted into the United Nations.

Just months earlier, it was still a British colony.

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The Gambia was barely 7 months old when the world gave it a seat at the table.

On September 21, 1965, the tiny West African nation was admitted into the United Nations.

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Seven rebel groups in Ethiopia have just joined forces against one government.

Fano, the TPLF, OLA and four other armed groups have formed the “Alliance for Survival,” calling for an end to Abiy Ahmed’s government.

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🇱🇷 He left as president. Hours later, he was dead.

On September 9, 1990, Samuel Doe went to Monrovia's Freeport.

Prince Y. Johnson's fighters ambushed and captured him.

His final hours were filmed.

By day's end, Liberia's former ruler was dead.

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🇦🇴 Angola won independence… then foreign armies arrived.

In 1975, Portugal left, but Angola became a Cold War battlefield.

The USSR backed the MPLA. Cuba sent thousands of troops. Apartheid South Africa intervened, while the US backed anti-MPLA forces.

The war lasted 27 years

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Some Liberian children went to war before they knew what war was.

Taylor’s forces turned boys as young as 10 into fighters in “Small Boys Units.” Girls were also recruited and subjected to horrific abuse.

For thousands, childhood ended with a gun.

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Broadcast journalist and aspiring Gomoa West MP Captain Smart, together with his aides and bodyguards, visited the newly unveiled sculpture of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah at Krisan in the Ellembelle District of the Western Region.

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By sunrise, Egypt had a king. By nightfall, he was finished.

On July 23, 1952, the secret Free Officers seized control.

King Farouk was forced to abdicate and leave Egypt.

He sailed into exile. Egypt’s monarchy never came back.

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Libya brought tanks and aircraft to crush Chad.

Then the Toyotas came.

Chadian fighters mounted weapons on pickups, attacked at terrifying speed, then vanished into the desert.

Libya had the firepower.

Chad had the Toyotas.

This gave birth to the Toyota War.

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He came within seconds of killing Idi Amin.

In 1974, Brigadier Charles Arube led a coup that seized parts of Kampala.

Then he reached Amin’s hideout.

Arube entered the house, not knowing Amin was still inside.

Gunshots rang out.

Arube was dead.

The coup collapsed.

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A Black Hawk fell. Then another.

What was meant to be a quick raid in Mogadishu became a 19-hour fight for survival.

By dawn, 18 U.S. soldiers were dead.

The battle became known as Black Hawk Down.

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Windhoek, Namibia 🇳🇦 in the 90 's

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Somalia was winning—then the Soviet Union turned its guns against them.

In 1977, Siad Barre invaded Ethiopia to seize the Ogaden.

Somali forces captured much of the region.

Then Moscow switched sides and armed Ethiopia.

By 1978, Somalia was in retreat.

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He seized Ghana in a bloodless coup—then faced a firing squad.

On January 13, 1972, Colonel Ignatius Kutu Acheampong overthrew Kofi Busia’s government and took power.

Seven years later, Acheampong was executed after another military takeover.

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Two men who once shared power eventually turned Sudan into a battlefield.

In April 2023, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan’s army clashed with Mohamed Hamdan “Hemedti” Dagalo’s RSF.

What began as a power struggle in Khartoum spread across the country.

Millions fled.

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He launched a coup… then stopped to ask his girlfriend if she recognized his voice.

On April 17, 1967, Lt. Samuel Arthur seized Ghana’s radio station and announced the overthrow of the government.

Then he went to see his girlfriend.

He was arrested.

The coup collapsed.