Day of remembrance for fallen heroes
Honors those who lost their lives during the struggle for South Sudan's independence
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Martyrs Day
Day of remembrance for fallen heroes
On this day in African history
- 1877 The Kiriji War, a civil war between the Yoruba peoples of the western Ibadan Kingdom and the eastern Ekiti-Parapo Yoruba people, begins.
- 1899 Sierra Leone chief Bai Bureh and two other leaders of the anti-British Hut Tax Uprising of 1898 are exiled to Ghana, and his followers executed.
- 1986 Organization of African Unity (OAU) adopts the Language Plan of Action for Africa in Addis Ababa, establishing the early regional guidelines for indig... · Ethiopia
- 1990 The news programmes on state television – the only TV news allowed in Zaire by dictator Mobutu Sese Seko – begin every broadcast with an image of Mobu... · Democratic Republic of the Congo
- 2006 The first multi-party elections in forty years take place in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
- 2021 ACALAN launches the annual African Languages Week in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, to elevate the social and educational status of indigenous languages. · Burkina Faso