Karume Day

Commemoration of Sheikh Abeid Amani Karume

Commemorates the assassination of Zanzibari President Abeid Karume, the first President of Zanzibar

What this holiday commemorates

• 1971 President Julius Nyerere rejects requests from Kenyan conspirators for military assistance and weapons to support the planned coup. · Tanzania

On this day in African history

• 1960 South Africa's apartheid government passes the Unlawful Organisations Act, banning the ANC and PAC. · South Africa
• 1992 Eritrea's Provisional Government issues the Referendum Proclamation for independence. · Eritrea
• 1994 Prime Minister Agathe Uwilingiyimana is assassinated on the first day of the Rwandan genocide. · Rwanda
• 2012 Joyce Banda is inaugurated as Malawi's first female president. · Malawi
• 2019 Massive sit-ins peak near Sudan's army headquarters in Khartoum during the Sudanese Revolution. · Sudan

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