Celebration of national football victory
Commemorates the historic victory of Equatorial Guinea against Ivory Coast in AFCON 2024
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AFCON Victory Against Ivory Coast
Celebration of national football victory
On this day in African history
- 1641 Garcia II, considered one of Kongo’s greatest kings, begins his 20-year rule over the Kingdom of Kongo. · Democratic Republic of the Congo
- 1846 Ahmad I ibn Mustafa decrees the total abolition of slavery in Tunisia, making the country the first in the Islamic world to ban the practice. · Tunisia
- 1963 The Guinea-Bissau War of Independence begins, pitting independence fighters against the colonial forces of Portugal.Â
- 1963 AmÃlcar Lopes Cabral orders the launch of open armed conflict in Guinea-Bissau with an assault on the Portuguese barracks at Tite. · Guinea-Bissau
- 1987 Somali's minister of defence, Mohammed Said Hersi Morgan, sends a "letter of death" to Somali President Siad Barre, proposing the genocide of the Isaa...
- 2020 Charles Njonjo celebrates his centenary as the last surviving member of Kenya's first independence cabinet. · Kenya