🇲🇦 Oued Ed-Dahab Day in Morocco

On this day in African history

• 1595 Portuguese authorities execute rebel leader Rei Amador by hanging and quartering to suppress the island-wide slave uprising. · São Tomé and Príncipe
• 1961 British colonial authorities release Jomo Kenyatta from restriction in Maralal and escort him back to Gatundu. · Kenya
• 2004 Kuaima Riruako's reparations campaign secures its first major diplomatic breakthrough as Minister Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul delivers the first formal... · Namibia
• 2008 Nigeria hands over the potentially oil-rich Bakassi peninsula to Cameroon, ending a long-standing dispute over the territory.
• 2013 Egypt declares a state of emergency as security forces kill hundreds of demonstrators supporting former president Mohamed Morsi.
• 2017 Massive mudslides leave sections of Freetown, Sierra Leone, buried killing 1,141 people and leaving 3,000 homeless.