Traditional New Year festival
Traditional Shirazi New Year festival featuring unique ritual fighting with banana stalks to settle past year's disputes and welcome good fortune for the coming year
Regional
Mwaka Kogwa Festival
Traditional New Year festival
On this day in African history
- 1952 Egyptian military, led by Colonel Gamal Abdal Nasser, topples the monarchy of King Faruk in a coup d’état.
- 2005 2005 – Three bombs explode in Naama Bay, Egypt, killing 88 people.
- 2005 Three bombs explode in Naama Bay, Egypt, killing 88 people. · Egypt
- 2013 President Salva Kiir dismisses Vice President Riek Machar and the entire cabinet, precipitating a structural governance crisis. · South Sudan
- 2014 Muslim Seleka rebels and Christian anti-Balaka militia at war in the Central African Republic sign a ceasefire agreement in Congo-Brazzaville.