13 August 1998 The Night the Lights went out in Kinshasa: The giant hydroelectric Inga dam, Africas largest, that supplied Kinshasa and most of #Congo power was captured by #Uganda rebel forces #Rwanda

#Chad soldiers guard a emergency cabinet meeting in Ndjamena concerning the #Libya-backed rebel offensive in the north; Col Qaddafi would admit to only "moral support" 12 August 1983

#Egypt: 5 Years Later, Rab'a Massacre Survivors Victimized https://t.co/WPthclGEoA via @YouTube

Secretary-General of @UN Dag Hammarskjold flew to Elisabethville in Katanga with two companies of Swedish UN troops to meet with the self-styled President of the secessionist province Moise Tshombe; 12 August 1960 #Congo

9 August 1991 Battle of Ventersdorp: Hundreds of Police and Afrikaner Resistance Movement supporters battled outside a hall where President FW de Klerk was to speak, leaving three dead and 54 wounded #SouthAfrica

#Sweden troops boarding a plane bound for Elizabethville in Katanga as @UN troops began replacing Belgian soldiers who had intervend in #Congo after the Force Publique mutiny; 12 August 1960

Operation Turquoise: Rwandan Hutus began to flee to Zaire #Congo from the French safe haven in #Rwanda as French troops prepared to withdrawal from the country in a week at end of mandate; 12 August 1994

Operation Turquoise: #Rwanda Hutu began to flee to Zaire #Congo from the French safe haven as French troops preopared to withdrawal from the country in a week at end of mandate 12 August 1994

Volunteers for the #Katanga army undergo triaining on 11 August 1960; The #Congo province had ordered mobilisation to enforce its July secession

10 August 1982 Operation Meebos 2: A SWAPO concentration 30 km north of Cuvelai #Angola was attacked by #SouthAfrica Helicopter gunships, Mirage jets and airlifted troops killing 116 PLAN guerrillas

As a mobile #Rwanda #Uganda force advanced from the west on the capital, Congolese men and women in Kinshasa #Congo signed up for the Peoples Self- force: it was claimed over 5,000 had joined 10 August 1998

10 August 1998 Operation Kitona: The #Rwanda RPA-led force crossed the #Congo River and captured the port city of Matadi

10 August 1998 Operation Kitona: The #Rwanda RPA-led force crossed the #Congo River and captured the port city of Matadi

#Zimbabwe Ousted Mugabe. The Economy’s Still a Mess. https://t.co/u19m4V8jZp via @nytvideo

9 August 1983 Operation Manta began: #France announced it was sending 500 paratroopers to #Chad to train the forces of President Hissen Habre in their fight against #Libya-backed rebels in the north

Some of the 500 rebel prisoners captured by #Chad government forces during the fighting at the northern oasis of Faya-Largeau on display in the capital Ndjamena 9 August 1983 #Libya

9 August 1976 "Jesus, I just hope we don't run out of ammunition": Operation Eland, the Selous Scout cross-border flying column raid attacked the ZANLA Nyadzonya camp in #Mozambique , killing or wounding over 1,000 guerrillas #Rhodesia

9 August 1982 Operation Meebos 2: A Puma helicopter was shot down by SWAPO AA fire northwest of Cuvelai #Angola killing 15 paratroopers of 1 Para Bn and crew #SouthAfrica

4 August 1982 Operation Meebos 2 "Remember, no shooting at FAPLA": 61 Mech Bn ambush of a FAPLA convoy north of Cuvelai #Angola #SouthAfrica

Joseph Kabila, #Congo Strongman, Will Step Down After 17 Years in Power https://t.co/MduYBR0awk

8 August 1998: 7 nations of the SADC @SADC_News met in an emergency summit at Victoria Falls #Zimbabwe #Rhodesia in an effort to end the #Congo crisis #SecondCongoWar #Rwanda #Uganda #Zimbabwe

8 August 1988 "A de facto cessation of hostilities is now in effect": #SouthAfrica, #Cuba and #Angola announced an immediate cease-fire in Angola and Namibia

Central African Republic: Justice Needed for War Crimes https://t.co/t6BF1WGSPn via @YouTube

8 August 1988 "A de facto cessation of hostilities is now in effect": #SouthAfrica, #Cuba and #Angola announced an immediate cease-fire in Angola and Namibia

Congo's Kabila will not stand in presidential election ; his replacement is under sanction by the EU for alleged human rights violations https://t.co/tlrRl6XhIa

8 August 1998: 7 nations of the SADC @SADC_News met in an emergency summit at Victoria Falls #Zimbabwe #Rhodesia in an effort to end the #Congo crisis #SecondCongoWar

4 August 1993: In Arusha, #Tanzania a peace agreement was signed by #Rwanda and the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) that temporarily ended the civil war

"A useful exchange of views": US Undersecretary of State W. Averell Harriman and #Belgium Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak met in Brussels ti discuss what to do about the spreading revolts in #Congo 7 August 1964

Situation in #Congo on 7 August 1964 ;Areas captured by Mulele rebellion in Kasai and the APL Simba revolt in Kivu

6 August 1982 "We do not need to waste time": Three @MYANC /MK guerrillas, dubbed the Moroka 3, were sentenced to be hanged for high treason and murder; they would hang together in June 1983 #SouthAfrica

6 August 1998 "We will take the war back to #Rwanda , where it came from": The RPF airborne force captured the Atlantic oil port of Moanda #Congo and Uvira in the east #SecondCongoWar

5 August 1988: In Geneva, #SouthAfrica, #Angola and #Cuba agreed on "a sequence of steps to achieve peace in southwestern Africa"

5 August 1964: The northeast city of Stanleyville fell to a force of APL "Simba' rebels led by 'General' Nicolas Olenga #Congo #DRC

4 August 1998 Operation Kitona: The #Rwanda RPF airborne assault on Kitona Airbase 320 km west of Kinshasa #Congo to topple Laurent Kabila at start of #SecondCongoWar

What kind of government allows someone who takes over in a coup run for President @edmnangagwa ?

Lt Col Yakubu Gowon, who seized power in #Nigeria in a military coup the week before , with Chief Obafemi Alowolo, recently freed governor of the western region; 3 August 1966 #Biafra

3 August 1968: President Massamba-Debat was overthrown as President of the #Congo Republic Brazzaville by a army coup led by Capt. Marien Ngouabi; they would perish within a week of each other in a coup in 1977

2 August 1998 "We the army of the DRC have taken the decision to remove President Laurent-Desire Kabila from power"" Congolese troops mutinied in Goma and #Rwanda troops crossed the border and seized Goma and Bukavu @GEC_CRG #SecondCongoWar

Hutu soldiers of the #Rwanda army defeated by the RPF in a refugee camp in #Zaire #Congo 1 August 1994 #Kwibuka24

1 August 1975: #SouthAfrica announced it was removing its remaining paramilitary police force from #Rhodesia

Moise Tshombe, returning from exile and named Premier in early July, ended a 3,500 mile week-long unity tour through #Congo on 30 July 1964 as rebels closed in on Stanleyville

30/31 July 1978 Operation Mascot: #Rhodesia SAS and RLI airborne assault on 10 ZANU bases in #Mozambique in the first reported raid since the Transitional Government came to power in March #Zimbabwe

31 July 1981 Operation Mixer: @MYANC/ MK officer Joe Gqabi was shot dead by Project Barnacle #SouthAfrica Recce operators in Harare #Zimbabwe #Rhodesia

The #Rhodesia army displays dead guerrillas in a protected village in July 1976