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02/07/2023

FACTS ABOUT LIBYA 🇱🇾🇱🇾

Did you know that 90% of Libya is desert?

Libya gained independence from Great Britain in 1951.

In terms of area, Libya is in 4th place among African countries

When eating, Libyans do not use cutlery, preferring to use only their hands..

It is an interesting fact that before the beginning of the revolution, the state paid birth mothers $7,000.
One of the main sources of income in Libya is oil and gas production

Before the overthrow of Gaddafi, the counterfeiting of medical drugs in Libya was punishable by death.
It is interesting that water in Libya is more expensive than gasoline.

Libya has 150 tons of gold reserve in bank.

Before 2011, Libya was the only country in the world to use a plain flag (green)

15/06/2023

Meet Samia Suluhu Hassan the First Female President of Tanzania 🇹🇿

30/05/2023

On this day the Republic of Biafra was established in 1967 by Igbo military officer and Eastern Region governor late C. Odumegwu Ojukwu under his presidency, following a series of ethnic tensions and military coups after Nigerian independence in 1960 that culminated in the 1966 massacres of Eastern-Nigerians. The military of Nigeria proceeded to invade Biafra shortly after its declaration of independence, resulting in the start of the Nigerian Civil War

22/05/2023

The ugly history of Africa’s most famous bag
In 1983, Nigeria expelled two million undocumented West African migrants, half of whom were from Ghana. The sturdy, checked bags into which they packed their belongings have become a symbol of exclusion and intolerance. Nearly four decades later, the region ... https://africanhistory.online/history?id=45129196

In 1983, Nigeria expelled two million undocumented West African migrants, half of whom were from Ghana. The sturdy, checked bags into which they packed their belongings have become a symbol…

22/05/2023

The Civil war

The Mozambican Civil War was a 15-year conflict that occurred between May 30, 1977, and October 4, 1992, in the southern African country of Mozambique. Although ostensibly an internal civil war, the conflict was in fact a proxy war between the Soviet Union which backed the Mozambican government, and the United States which supported the insurgents. The war occurred two years after Mozambique officially gained its independence from Portugal. The main belligerents were the Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO) led by President Samora Machel which controlled the central government and the Mozambican National Resistance (RENAMO) led by André Matsangaissa. It was estimated that one million people died during a 15-year conflict in a country that in 1990 had a population of 14 million.

The background of the war goes back to 1976 when troops from white minority-controlled Rhodesia entered Mozambique to carry out operations against the Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army (ZANLA) which had bases in Mozambican territory. The Rhodesian troops freed André Matsangaissa, an ex-FRELIMO official who had been arrested and imprisoned. Matsangaissa joined RENAMO which was formed in 1975 in opposition to FRELIMO and quickly rose to become its leader. When Matsangaissa was killed in 1979 after an unsuccessful attack on a Mozambican regional Centre, Afonso Dhlakama became the new leader of RENAMO.

FRELIMO was strongest in the cities and major towns of Mozambique during much of the civil war while RENAMO operated mainly in the countryside. It continued the fight against the Mozambique central government even after the white minority regime in Rhodesia was replaced by Robert Mugabe who renamed the country Zimbabwe. Mugabe and his government now supported FRELIMO but RENAMO gained the support of Kenya and South Africa