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Karume Day
Commemoration of Sheikh Abeid Amani Karume
Celebration date
April 7
Geographic reach
1 country
Commemorates the assassination of the first President of Zanzibar, Abeid Karume.
Commemorates the assassination of Zanzibari President Abeid Karume, the first President of Zanzibar
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What this holiday commemorates
On this day in African history
- 1960 South Africa's apartheid government passes the Unlawful Organisations Act, banning the ANC and PAC. 路 South Africa
- 1992 Eritrea's Provisional Government issues the Referendum Proclamation for independence. 路 Eritrea
- 1994 Prime Minister Agathe Uwilingiyimana is assassinated on the first day of the Rwandan genocide. 路 Rwanda
- 2012 Joyce Banda is inaugurated as Malawi's first female president. 路 Malawi
- 2019 Massive sit-ins peak near Sudan's army headquarters in Khartoum during the Sudanese Revolution. 路 Sudan