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News highlights from Africa and beyond (January 24, 2024).

Word of the Day: “A dog with a bone in his mouth cannot bite you.” – Ugandan Proverb.

Today in history in 2020,
“Ugandan environmental activist Vanessa Kamate is among 20 young activists from around the world who assemble at The World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. They are petitioning world governments to replace fossil fuels with clean energy to avert global climate disaster.” – Source: https://www.africatodayyesterday.org/days/24-jan

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News highlights from Africa and beyond (January 23, 2024).

Word of the Day: “Two birds disputed about a kernel; when a third swooped down and carried it off.” – Democratic Republic of Congo Proverb.

Today in history in 2019, “The Democratic Republic of Congo is experiencing the second-largest Ebola outbreak in history, with 713 “confirmed and probable cases” and 439 deaths. The country confirms 14 new cases of the hemorrhagic fever today — the largest increase since the outbreak began in August.” – Source: https://www.africatodayyesterday.org/days/23-jan

News highlights from Africa and beyond (January 23, 2024).

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News highlights from Africa and beyond (January 22, 2024).

Word of the Day: “If you start looking for a fly in your food, it means that you are full.” – South African Proverb.

Today in history in 1992, “South African liberation hero Nelson Mandela and South Africa’s last apartheid regime president F.W. De Klerk are jointly awarded the UNESCO Peace Prize.” – Source: https://www.africatodayyesterday.org/days/22-jan

News highlights from Africa and beyond (January 22, 2024).

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News highlights from Africa and beyond (January 21, 2024).

Word of the Day: “The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind’s eye only, fade out in sand.” – Nadine Gordimer.

Today in history in 1640,
“The world’s first major drought is scientifically documented. Low rainfall responsible for drought is recorded along the Sahel, south of the Sahara Desert. A second drought is recorded in the 1680s.” – Source: https://www.africatodayyesterday.org/days/21-jan

News highlights from Africa and beyond (January 21, 2024).

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News highlights from Africa and beyond (January 20, 2024).

Word of the Day: “The bush in which you hide has eyes.” – Guinean Proverb.

Today in history in 1973,
“Amilcar Cabral, one of Africa’s most influential anti-colonial leaders who led the independence movements and a guerilla army in Cabo Verde and Guinea-Bissau against colonial Portugal, is assassinated by political rivals, in Conakry, Guinea.” – Source: https://www.africatodayyesterday.org/days/20-jan

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News highlights from Africa and beyond (January 19, 2024).

Word of the Day: “If you can walk, you can dance; If you can talk, you can sing.” – Gambian Proverb.

Today in history in 2017, “The winner of The Gambia’s presidential election is sworn in, but not in The Gambia. Gambian dictator Yahya Jammeh goes back on his promise to honour the will of Gambian voters, and continues to occupy the presidential palace. Adama Barrow is sworn in at the Gambian embassy in Dakar, Senegal.” – Source: https://www.africatodayyesterday.org/days/19-jan

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News highlights from Africa and beyond (January 18, 2024).

Word of the Day: “The soup does not move round in an elder’s belly.” – Nigerian Proverb.

Today in history in 1948, “University of Ibadan is founded, in Ibadan, British Nigeria. The first degree-awarding institution in Nigeria will have an enrollment of 42,000 students in 2024.” – Source: https://www.africatodayyesterday.org/days/18-jan

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News highlights from Africa and beyond (January 17, 2024).

Word of the Day: “To love someone who does not love you is like shaking a tree to make the dew drops fall..” – Democratic Republic of Congo Proverb.

Today in history in 1961, “Patrice Lumumba, independence leader and first Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo, is assassinated after only 10 months in office; executed by a firing squad of Belgian and Congolese officers who were behind his ouster. The killing sparks international outrage, and brings some unification to DRC by creating the country’s first national martyr.” – Source: https://www.africatodayyesterday.org/days/17-jan

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News highlights from Africa and beyond (January 16, 2024).

Word of the Day: “One who has been bitten by a snake lives in fear of worms.” – Nigerian Proverb.

Today in history in 1966, “The Federal Military Government of Nigeria begins its 13-year rule, headed by Major General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi.” – Source: https://www.africatodayyesterday.org/days/16-jan

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News highlights from Africa and beyond (January 15, 2024).

Word of the Day: “Give me a push from my back” does not mean give me a hunchback.” – Nigerian Proverb.

Today in history in 1966, “Nigeria’s first coup d’état ends the First Nigerian Republic. The military responds to a period of civil unrest with the bloody takeover of government. Among those killed is Prime Minister Tafawa Balewa.” – Source: https://www.africatodayyesterday.org/days/15-jan

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News highlights from Africa and beyond (January 14, 2024).

Word of the Day: “If you sleep with itching anus, you will definitely wake up with your hands smelling.” –Nigerian Proverb.

Today in history in 1970, “The Nigerian Civil War formally concludes with Biafra’s surrender and the reversal of its 1967 Declaration of Independence.” – Source: https://www.africatodayyesterday.org/days/14-jan

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News highlights from Africa and beyond (January 13, 2024).

Word of the Day: “Onye m ga-egbuli m ga rio chineke ka o nyere m aka?
Translation: Regarding the person that I can defeat easily, do I still need to beg God for assistance?.” –Nigerian Proverb.

Today in history in 1931, “Flora Nwapa, Nigerian author and publisher, is born in Oguta, Nigeria. “The mother of modern African literature” was the first African woman to have a novel published in English in Britain. She established a publishing house in Nigeria in 1970 that promoted women authors.” – Source: https://www.africatodayyesterday.org/days/13-jan

News highlights from Africa and beyond (January 13, 2024).

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News highlights from Africa and beyond (January 12, 2024).

Word of the Day: “Know thyself deathless and able to know all things, all arts, sciences, the way of every life. Become higher than the highest height and lower than the lowest depth. Amass in thyself all senses of animals, fire, water, dryness and moistness. Think of thyself in all places at the same time, earth, sea, sky, not yet born, in the womb, young, old, dead, and in the after death state.” – Muata Ashby, Ancient Egyptian Proverbs.

Today in history in BC 3000
“like every day, the clay ovens are being worked to bake bread to feed ancient Egyptians – with the process preserved in wall paintings”. https://www.africatodayyesterday.org/days/12-jan

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News highlights from Africa and beyond (January 11, 2024).

Word of the Day: “A man being short does not make him a boy.” –Nigerian Proverb.

Today in history in 1940
“The Nigerian town of Igede-Ekiti hosts the Western Region’s first Westernised White Wedding. The newlyweds are Mr. and Mrs. John Oke Agbede”. https://www.africatodayyesterday.org/days/11-jan

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News highlights from Africa and beyond (January 09, 2024).

Word of the Day: “Too much discussion means a quarrel.” – Ivorian Proverb.

Today in history in 1964
“The University of Abidjan is founded. In 1996, the largest university of Côte d’Ivoire will be renamed Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny, after the country’s first president.”
Source: https://www.africatodayyesterday.org/days/09-jan

News highlights from Africa and beyond (January 09, 2024).

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News highlights from Africa and beyond (January 06, 2024).

Word of the Day: “A ripened fruit does not cling to the vine.” – Zimbabwean Proverb.

Today in history in 2019,
“Zimbabwe is officially Africa’s Number One tobacco producer after final 2018 figures show exports of US$892 million. Government helped production when the Central Bank boosted its farmer aid scheme, the Tobacco Input Finance Facility, from US$28 million in 2017 to US$70 million in 2018.”
Source: https://www.africatodayyesterday.org/days/06-jan

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News highlights from Africa and beyond (January 03, 2024).

Word of the Day: “One single finger cannot pick a louse.” – Liberian Proverb.

Today in history in 1848,
“Joseph Jenkins Roberts is sworn in as Liberia’s first president, in Monrovia. Nathaniel Brander is sworn-in as the vice president of the five month-old country.”
Source: https://www.africatodayyesterday.org/days/31-dec

News highlights from Africa and beyond (January 03, 2024).

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News highlights from Africa and beyond (January 2, 2024).

Word of the Day: “Every monkey is a gazelle in its mother’s eyes.” – Tunisian Proverb.

Today in history in 1909,
Dr. Tewhida Ben Sheikh was born. She was the first Muslim woman to become a physician in North Africa, in Tunisia. She was a pioneer gynecologist who did progressive work in contraception and abortion access. After her long career and life, she died at age 101 in 2010. She became the first woman to appear on Tunisian currency, the 10-dinar note, in 2020.”
Source: https://www.africatodayyesterday.org/days/31-dec

News highlights from Africa and beyond (January 2, 2024).

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News highlights from Africa and beyond (January 1, 2024).

Word of the Day: “No shortcuts exist to the top of a palm tree.” – African Proverb.

Today in history in 1808,
“Law signed by U.S. President Thomas Jefferson, The Act Prohibiting the Importation of Slaves, goes into effect. Some smuggling of enslaved Africans continues until the U.S. Civil War is fought to end slavery.”
Source: https://www.africatodayyesterday.org/days/31-dec

News highlights from Africa and beyond (January 1, 2024).

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News highlights from Africa and beyond (December 31, 2023).

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Word of the Day: “No one can pass twice between the thighs of an elephant.” – Kenyan Proverb.

Today in history in 1977,
“Kenyan writer and intellectual Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o is arrested on orders of Vice President Daniel Arap Moi, and imprisoned for one year for his political play I Will Marry When I Want.”
Source: https://www.africatodayyesterday.org/days/31-dec

News highlights from Africa and beyond (December 31, 2023).

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