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🇲🇱 Armed Forces Day in Mali
Celebration of the military
Date in Mali
January 20
Honors the military forces of Sierra Leone.
Marks the swearing-in ceremony of new military recruits
How Armed Forces Day is observed in Mali
Historical significance
Established after Mali gained independence in 1960.
Public life in Mali
BanksClosed
SchoolsClosed
Government officesClosed
Calendar & celebration
Calendar systems
Gregorian
On this day in African history
- 1962 Cyrille Adoula orders the arrest of deputy prime minister Antoine Gizenga to eliminate the rival eastern counter-government. · Democratic Republic of the Congo
- 1964 Oscar Kambona drives himself to the mutinous Colito Barracks to negotiate with soldiers of the Tanganyika Rifles, maintaining public order and coordin... · Tanzania
- 1971 Juvenalias Aooko meets MP Gideon Mutiso at Parliament Buildings and declares that a coup against the Kenyatta government carries divine approval. · Kenya
- 1986 Leabua Jonathan, Prime Minister of Lesotho, is ousted from power in a coup d'état led by General Justin Lekhanya. · Lesotho
- 1991 Sudan's government imposes Islamic law nationwide, worsening the civil war between the country's Muslim north and Christian south.
Other countries celebrating Armed Forces Day
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Benin
Oct 26
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Egypt
Oct 6
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Liberia
Feb 11
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Mozambique
Sep 25
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Sao Tome and Principe
Sep 6
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Sierra Leone
Feb 18