Colonial Twilight

28 October 2003: the @UN released its final report of three on the illegal plunder of gems and minerals in eastern #Congo in areas controlled by Congo/Zimbabwe, #Uganda and #Rwanda during the Second Congo War

U.S. Hits Rwanda With New Sanctions Over a Conflict Trump Declared ‘Ended’ nytimes.com/2026/10/29/world…

BMP armor vehicles , one of FARDC and other @MONUSCO, outside Goma on 29 October 2008 during fighting with CNDP rebels

Israeli Magach in Suez City on 29 October 1973

KADESH: Wives and children of State Department personnel, 62 total, boarding an Air Force transport at Lydda Airport near Jerusalem for Athens on 29 October 1956

29 October 1956- The Suez Crisis: Operation KADESH, the Israeli military thrust into the Gaza Strip and Sinai

28 October 1963- “If my removal as head of the regime can serve to safeguard national unity, I will have once again added a stone to this edifice which is dear to me": President Hubert Maga resigned and Colonel Christophe Soglo seized power in Dahomey

Israeli and Egyptian military leaders met at Km 101 on Cairo to Suez road on 28 October 1973. It was first meeting between military representatives between the two countries in a quarter-century.

Egyptian President Anwar el-Sadat conferring with Algerian Foreign Minister Abdel Aziz Bouteflika in Cairo on 27 October 1973. Bouteflika would go on to be the seventh President of #Algeria for 20 years starting in 1999

Show down at Suez: 29 October 1973 @TIME

A SAM-2, one of eight Egyptian antiaircraft missiles captured intact in their launching sites near Suez, 27 October 1973

29 October 2006: Joseph Kabila won the run-off election and became President of #Congo, the first democratically elected president since 1960; he now is the face of Rwanda-backed FRN rebel movement based in Goma and sentenced to death for treason in absentia

28 October 1977- Operation KROPDUIF: Recce Commando and 32 Battalion attack on SWAPO base at Eheke

BACKLASH: a SADF recce team placing explosives on the railway line and road between Mocamedes and Lubango on Serra de Leba pass in southern Angola on 28 October 1979 (four photos)

28 October 1975- Operation SAVANNAH: Task Force ZULU reached the Atlantic, capturing the port city of Mocamedes unopposed

"Majority rule in that briefcase Mr. Wilson”: a policeman restrains dog snapping at African during a rally outside Government House on 27 October 1965, where Prime Minister Harold Wilson was meeting with Joshua Nkomo and Ndabaningi Sithole, both being held in ‘restriction’ camp

28 October 1976: the Geneva Conference for #Rhodesia began

24 October 1996: the Rwandan Army and its AFDL allies captured Uvira on Lake Tanganyika

Armored vehicles of the @UN @MONUSCO interspersed with refugees fleeing the fighting north of Goma on 27 October 2008

26 October 2008- Nkunda's Last Dance: CNDP rebels launched a third offensive that seized the Virunga Park and FARDC Rumangabo military camp and advanced on Goma