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The 1959 Nile Waters Agreement
The Nile Water Agreement of 1959 was a significant milestone in water allocation for Egypt and Sudan. As per the agreement, Egypt's water allocation was increased from 48 billion cubic meters to 55.5 billion cubic meters...
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- 1959 Sudan and the United Arab Republic (Egypt) sign in Cairo the Nile Waters Agreement to divide Nile waters for the construction of the Aswan High Dam and trade promotion.
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Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is elected president of Liberia, the first woman to lead an African country. - 2013 11 people are killed in a car park bombing in Mogadishu, Somalia.
- 2020 More than 50 people beheaded in the latest attack by Islamist militants in Cabo Delgado province, northern Mozambique.
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Made a life peer, Baroness Moyo, in the UK House of Lords
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Born in Beaufort West, South Africa
