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The Day Zanzibar's Slave Market Closed Forever
On June 5, 1873, the gates of Stone Town's great slave market shut for the final time. For generations, this market had funneled tens of thousands of enslaved Africans from the continent's interior across the Indian Ocea...
Celebrated across Africa on this day
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Sultan Barghash bin Said of Zanzibar closes the great slave market under the terms of a treaty with Great Britain. - 1879 The Zungeni Mountain skirmish took place between British and Zulu forces during the second invasion of the Zulu Kingdom. 🇿🇦 South Africa
- 1879 The Zungeni Mountain skirmish occurs between British and Zulu forces during the second invasion of the Zulu Kingdom. 🇿🇦 South Africa
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Abbé Fulbert Youlou faces mounting criticism after Guinean President Ahmed Sékou Touré condemns elite excess and corruption during a state visit to Brazzaville. -
Wangari Maathai launches the Green Belt Movement with its first tree planting on World Environment Day -
President Gaafar Nimeiry unilaterally abolishes the Southern Sudan Autonomous Region, dismantling the constitutional guarantees of the 1972 treaty. - 1997 The Second Republic of the Congo Civil War begins. 🇨🇬 Republic of the Congo
- 2000 The Six-Day War in Kisangani begins in Kisangani, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, between Ugandan and Rwandan forces. A large part of the city is destroyed. 🇨🇩 Democratic Republic of the Congo