Some key dates within the historical past of Rwanda: Fifteenth-Nineteenth Centuries – Clans within the space start to merge into kingdoms. One in every of these, the Kingdom of Rwanda turns into more and more dominant from the mid-18th Century, reaching its best extent within the Nineteenth Century. 1884 – Berlin Convention sees partition of…
9 July 2011 Up to date 16 July 2024 Rwanda, a small landlocked nation in east-central Africa, is attempting to get well from the ethnic strife that culminated in government-sponsored genocide within the mid-Nineteen Nineties. An estimated 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and reasonable Hutus have been killed by dominant Hutu forces in 100 days. Rwanda has…
9 July 2011 Up to date 9 July 2024 South Africa has one of many continent’s greatest and most developed economies. For some 40 years it was dominated by a white minority authorities, when the Nationwide Social gathering got here to energy in 1948 and imposed its coverage of apartheid, which legally institutionalised beforehand current…
Some key dates in Algeria’s historical past: c. 600BC – Carthaginians increase settlements alongside the North African coast. 4th Century BC – Berbers kind the one largest component of the Carthaginian military. 241-238BC – Revolt of the Mercenaries: Berber troopers insurgent after being unpaid following Carthage’s defeat by Rome within the First Punic Struggle. 146BC…
As local weather change drives temperature will increase and decrease precipitation in southern Africa, analysis has discovered that there’s more likely to be a rise within the variety of wildfires in areas which are already scorching, dry and water scarce. Large wildfires broke out in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province on 12 and 13 July 2024,…
12 July 2011 Up to date 29 August 2023 Algeria, a gateway between Africa and Europe, has been battered by violence over the previous half-century. There are conflicting experiences concerning the demise toll throughout the conflict towards France for independence within the Nineteen Fifties and early 60s. French historians estimate that as much as 400,000…
9 July 2011 Up to date 13 September 2023 Sudan’s historical past goes again to the pharaonic interval. It was the largest and one of the crucial geographically various states in Africa, till its cut up into two nations in 2011 after southern Sudan voted for independence. This adopted a long time of battle by…
Some key dates in Sudan’s historical past: 2500-1500BC – Kerma kingdom, based mostly within the southern a part of Nubia, present-day northern and central Sudan. It’s lastly absorbed into the New Kingdom of Egypt. 1550-1069BC – A lot of Sudan is a part of the New Kingdom of Egypt. 1070BC – 350AD – Following the…
Festivals like Christmas and New 12 months are widespread celebrations noticed with a lot pomp and enthusiasm globally. The traditions is perhaps completely different in each nation, however the date of the celebration stays the identical. However are you conscious of an East African nation, whose New 12 months celebrations are fairly completely different than…
Eritrea has attracted consideration for plenty of regarding points lately. Whereas the dictatorship underneath the Kim dynasty in North Korea is broadly acknowledged, the African continent additionally hosts nations the place authoritarianism looms giant. Amongst them, a rustic on the Pink Beach has earned a chilling nickname: “Africa’s North Korea.” Eritrea, which is a nation…