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Africa Day (formerly African Freedom Day and African Liberation Day) is the annual commemoration of the foundation of the Organization of African Unity on 25 May 1963. [1] It is celebrated in various countries on the African continent as well as around the world. [ 2 ]
Emperor of Ethiopia Haile Selassie with President of Egypt Gamal Abdel Nasser in Addis Ababa for the Organisation of African Unity summit, 1963. To co-ordinate and intensify the co-operation of African states in order to achieve a better life for the people of Africa. [2] To defend the sovereignty, territorial integrity and independence of ...
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May 25 is the 145th day of the ... 1963 – The Organisation of African Unity is established ... of Mars to search for environments suitable for water and microbial life.
East Africa: 22: Abdou Diouf: 18 July 1985: 28 July 1986 Senegal: West Africa: 23: Denis Sassou-Nguesso: 28 July 1986: 27 July 1987: People's Republic of the Congo: Central Africa (8) Kenneth Kaunda: 27 July 1987: 25 May 1988 Zambia: Southern Africa: 24: Moussa Traoré: 25 May 1988: 24 July 1989 Mali: West Africa: 25: Hosni Mubarak: 24 July ...
The Organisation of African Unity (OAU), was subsequently established on 25 May 1963 followed by the African Economic Community in 1981. [1] Critics argued that the OAU in particular did little to protect the rights and liberties of African citizens from their own political leaders, often dubbing it the "Dictators' Club". [2]
Before independence, the average life expectancy in Kenya was 45, but by the end of the 1970s it was 55, the second-highest in Sub-Saharan Africa. [389] This improved medical care had resulted in declining mortality rates while birth rates remained high, resulting in a rapidly growing population; from 1962 to 1979, Kenya's population grew by ...
In 1953, he attempted to have Buganda secede to retain the kingdom's independence from a proposed British colonial federation in East Africa. He was deposed and exiled by British colonial governor Andrew Cohen , but was allowed to return to the country two years later in the wake of a popular backlash known as the Kabaka Crisis under the terms ...