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This is a list of notable people who have been assassinated in Africa .
Algeria
Date
Victim(s)
Assassin(s)
Notes
117 BC
Hiempsal , co-ruler of Numidia
Hiempsal's death was ordered by his cousin, Jugurtha .
December 24, 1942
François Darlan , senior figure of Vichy France
Fernand Bonnier de La Chapelle
March 4, 1957
Larbi Ben M'Hidi , Algerian nationalist and FLN leader
(not sure)
Hanged by French Army officers under Paul Aussaresses ; at the time, his death was passed off as a suicide.
March 23, 1957
Larbi Tbessi , Nationalist and Association of Algerian Muslim Ulema president
Thrown from a building by French Army officers under Paul Aussaresses ; at the time, his death was passed off as a suicide.
June 21, 1957
Maurice Audin , Pied-noir and PC militant
March 15, 1962
Mouloud Feraoun , writer
Organisation armée secrète
February 3, 1987
Mustafa Bouyali , Islamic fundamentalist
Ambushed by Algerian security services.
June 29, 1992
Mohamed Boudiaf , Chairman of High Council of State
Lembarek Boumaârafi
Shot at Annaba .[1]
June 2, 1993
Tahar Djaout , journalist, poet and author
Killed by the Armed Islamic Group .
August 21, 1993
Kasdi Merbah , former Prime Minister of Algeria
March 10, 1994
Abdelkader Alloula , playwright
Killed by two members of the Islamic Front for Armed Jihad .
September 29, 1994
Cheb Hasni , singer
December 3, 1994
Saïd Mekbel , journalist
Assassinated with a car bomb in Aïn Bénian .
September 28, 1995
Aboubakr Belkaid , politician
May 21, 1996
Seven Trappist monks of Tibérine
The monks were kidnapped by the Armed Islamic Group in March 1996, and reportedly executed on May 21; others claim that the monks were accidentally killed by the Algerian army. See Assassination of the monks of Tibhirine .
August 1, 1996
Pierre Lucien Claverie , Catholic bishop of Oran
January 28, 1997
Abdelhak Benhamouda , trade unionist
June 25, 1998
Lounès Matoub , Berberist singer
November 22, 1999
Abdelkader Hachani , Islamic fundamentalist
Fouad Boulemia
Fouad Boulemia , a member of the Armed Islamic Group , was convicted for Hachani's murder and sentenced to death, but was later released.
Angola
Benin
Date
Victim(s)
Assassin(s)
Notes
June 20, 1975
Michel Aikpé , government minister
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Date
Victim(s)
Assassin(s)
Notes
October 13, 1961
Louis Rwagasore , Prime Minister of Burundi
Georges Kageorgis
January 15, 1965
Pierre Ngendandumwe , Prime Minister of Burundi[2]
September 30, 1965
Joseph Bamina , Prime Minister of Burundi
April 29, 1972
Ntare V Ndizeye , deposed King of Burundi
October 21, 1993
Melchior Ndadaye , President of Burundi, founder of the Burundi Workers' Party
Overthrown and killed in a military coup.
March 11,1995
Ernest Kabushemeye , government minister
September 9,1996
Joachim Ruhuna , Roman Catholic archbishop of Gitega
November 20, 2001
Kassi Manlan , World Health Organization representative
Murdered in a conspiracy after discovering that aid money was being diverted into private accounts.
January 1, 2017
Emmanuel Niyonkuru , Minister of Water and the Environment
Assassinated in the early hours of January 1, 2017 in Bujumbura .
Cameroon
Central African Republic
Chad
Comoros
Date
Victim(s)
Assassin(s)
Notes
May 29, 1978
Ali Soilih , former President of Comoros
November 26, 1989
Ahmed Abdallah , President of Comoros
Overthrown in a coup.
June 13, 2010
Combo Ayouba , army chief of staff and former interim head of state
Republic of the Congo
Côte d'Ivoire
Date
Victim(s)
Assassin(s)
Notes
September 19, 2002
Émile Boga Doudou , government minister
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Date
Victim(s)
Assassin(s)
Notes
January 17, 1961
Patrice Lumumba , former Prime Minister of the Congo[5]
Executed by firing squad.
January 17, 1961
Maurice Mpolo , former Minister of Interior, and associate of Lumumba[4]
January 17, 1961
Joseph Okito , Senate Vice-President and associate of Lumumba[5]
May 6, 1997
Mahele Lieko Bokungu , military figure
January 16, 2001
Laurent-Désiré Kabila , President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo[4]
Rashidi Muzele, one of Kabila's bodyguards
Egypt
Date
Victim(s)
Assassin(s)
Notes
48 BC
Pompey the Great , Roman general and politician
Achillas , Lucius Septimius Salvius, and Julius Caesar
1121
Al-Afdal Shahanshah , vizier of Fatimid Egypt
1130
Al-Amir bi-Ahkami l-Lah , Fatimid Caliph
October 24, 1260
Qutuz , Mamluk sultan of Egypt
June 14, 1800
Jean Baptiste Kléber , French general
Suleiman al-Halabi
February 20, 1910
Boutros Ghali , Prime Minister of Egypt
Ibrahim Nassif al-Wardani
November 19, 1924
Sir Lee Stack , Governor-General of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
November 6, 1944
Walter Edward Guinness , Lord Moyne, the UK's Minister Resident in the Middle East
Eliyahu Hakim , a member of Zionist group Lehi
February 24, 1945
Ahmed Maher Pasha , Prime Minister of Egypt[6]
Mustafa Essawy
December 28, 1948
Mahmud Fahmi Nokrashi , Prime Minister of Egypt[7]
Abdel Meguid Ahmed Hassan
February 12, 1949
Hassan al-Banna , founder of the Muslim Brotherhood
November 28, 1971
Wasfi al-Tal , Prime Minister of Jordan
Shot by members of Black September during a visit to Cairo.[4]
October 6, 1981
Anwar Sadat , President of Egypt
Khalid Islambouli
Shot while reviewing a military parade;[4] see Assassination of Anwar El Sadat .
October 13, 1990
Rifaat al-Mahgoub , speaker of Egyptian parliament
June 8, 1992
Farag Foda , Egyptian politician and intellectual
Islamist movement al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya claimed responsibility for the attack.
Equatorial Guinea
Eswatini
Date
Victim(s)
Assassin(s)
Notes
April 1, 2008
Gabriel Mkhumane , political opposition leader
Ethiopia
Date
Victim(s)
Assassin(s)
Notes
December 17, 1960
Ras Abebe Aragai , Prime Minister
June 22, 2019
General Se'are Mekonnen , Chief of army of the National Defense of Ethiopia.
June 22, 2019
Major General Gezae Abera
The Gambia
Date
Victim(s)
Assassin(s)
Notes
December 16, 2004
Deyda Hydara , journalist
Ghana
Date
Victim(s)
Assassin(s)
Notes
April 17, 1967
Emmanuel Kotoka , military figure
Guinea
Date
Victim(s)
Assassin(s)
Notes
January 20, 1973
Amílcar Cabral , Pan-African intellectual
Inocêncio Kani
Killed in Conakry .
Guinea-Bissau
Date
Victim(s)
Assassin(s)
Notes
March 1, 2009
Batista Tagme Na Waie , chief of staff of the army
March 2, 2009
João Bernardo Vieira , President of Guinea Bissau
Shot by soldiers during armed attack on his residence in Bissau.
June 5, 2009
Baciro Dabó , government minister and independent presidential candidate
June 5, 2009
Helder Proença , former government minister
Kenya
Date
Victim(s)
Assassin(s)
Notes
February 25, 1965
Pio Gama Pinto , socialist politician
July 5, 1969
Tom Mboya , Kenyan Minister of Economic Planning and politician[8]
March 2, 1975
Josiah Mwangi Kariuki , Kenyan politician
January 3, 1980
Joy Adamson , conservationist
August 20, 1989
George Adamson , conservationist
February 13, 1990
Robert Ouko , Foreign Minister of Kenya
Disappeared on February 12–13; found dead on February 16.[9]
May 16, 1998
Seth Sendashonga , former interior minister of Rwanda
August 23, 2000
John Anthony Kaiser , Roman Catholic priest
March 5, 2009
Oscar Kamau Kingara , human rights activist
March 5, 2009
John Paul Oulo , human rights activist
Liberia
Libya
Madagascar
Date
Victim(s)
Assassin(s)
Notes
May 12, 1863
Radama II , King of Madagascar
After Radama passed a controversial law allowing disputes to be settled by duelling, his palace was besieged on the orders of the Prime Minister, Rainivoninahitriniony . Radama was captured by soldiers and strangled with a silk sash; some historians believe he may have survived this attack and lived out the rest of his days in obscurity.
February 11, 1975
Richard Ratsimandrava , President of Madagascar
Shot six days after taking power in military coup.[4]
Malawi
Date
Victim(s)
Assassin(s)
Notes
February 3, 1915
John Chilembwe , anti-colonial leader
Mauritania
Mauritius
Date
Victim(s)
Assassin(s)
Notes
October 3, 1951
Rabia Mokadam
Noël Jérôme Juillet (Pic Pac), France Cangy (Le Roi) and Paul Célestin (Le Fou)
News article
October 3, 1951
Jaimuddin Mokadam
Noël Jérôme Juillet (Pic Pac), France Cangy (Le Roi) and Paul Célestin (Le Fou)
News article
1965
Rampersad Surath , Political activist (Labour)
1965
Robert Brousse and Constable Beesoo , Political activist and policeman
1971
Fareed Muttur , Political activist (MMM)
1971
Azor Adelaide , Dock worker and political activist (MMM)
1986
Cyril de Guardia, Raymond Desvaux de Marigny and Ambicaduth Sooknundun (Medine Sugar Estate executives)
Sténio Hervel (alias Piou Piou)
Piou Piou Hervel murders
1996
Babal Joomun, Zulfikar Bheeky and Yousouf Moorad Political activists (Labour Party)
Escadron de la mort
Gorah Issac murders
Morocco
Mozambique
Namibia
Niger
Nigeria
Date
Victim(s)
Assassin(s)
Notes
January 15, 1966
Abubakar Tafawa Balewa , Prime Minister of Nigeria
Killed in a military coup.
January 15, 1966
Ahmadu Bello , Premier of Northern Nigeria
Killed in a military coup.
January 15, 1966
Samuel Akintola , Premier of Western Nigeria
Killed in a military coup.
1966
Festus Okotie-Eboh , government minister
July 29, 1966
Adekunle Fajuyi , Military Governor of Western Nigeria
Killed in a coup led by Theophilus Danjuma .
July 29, 1966
Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi , Head of State of Nigeria
Killed in a coup led by Theophilus Danjuma .
February 13, 1976
Murtala Mohammed , Head of State of Nigeria[4]
Killed in an attempted coup led by Buka Suka Dimka .
October 19, 1986
Dele Giwa , journalist
1996
Kudirat Abiola
December 23, 2001
Bola Ige , justice minister of Nigeria
October 16, 2011
Modu Bintube , Borno state legislator
Suspected to have been killed by Boko Haram militants.[10]
July 2, 2016
Gideon Aremu , Oyo state legislator and lawmaker.
Under investigation.[11]
Rwanda
Senegal
Somalia
Date
Victim(s)
Assassin(s)
Notes
October 15, 1969
Abdirashid Ali Shermarke , President of Somalia
Shot by one of his bodyguards, possibly for personal – rather than political – reasons.
1989
Salvatore Colombo , Roman Catholic bishop of Mogadishu
July 28, 2006
Abdallah Isaaq Deerow , former acting President of Somalia
June 17, 2009
Ali Said , Mogadishu police chief
June 18, 2009
Omar Hashi Aden , security minister
Killed in the 2009 Beledweyne bombing , for which Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility.
June 10, 2011
Abdishakur Sheikh Hassan Farah , interior minister
Haboon Abdulkadir Hersi Qaaf, Farah's teenage niece
Killed in a suicide bomb attack; Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility.
South Africa
Date
Victim(s)
Assassin(s)
Notes
1828
Shaka , king of the Zulus
Dingane and Mhlangana , Shaka's half-brothers
September 6, 1966
Hendrik Verwoerd , Prime Minister of South Africa[4]
Dimitri Tsafendas
Tsafendas, a parliamentary messenger, stabbed Verwoerd to death with a dagger in the House of Assembly due to his opposition to Verwoerd's policy of apartheid .
1977
Robert Smit
August 17, 1982
Ruth First , anti-apartheid scholar and wife of Communist party leader Joe Slovo
Killed by a letter bomb; her death was ordered by Craig Williamson .
May 21, 1985
Vernon Nkadimeng , South African dissident
March 29, 1988
Dulcie September , head of the African National Congress in Paris
1989
David Webster , anthropologist
Civil Cooperation Bureau
April 10, 1993
Chris Hani , leader of the South African Communist Party
Janusz Walus
Anti-Communist killing.
November 5, 1994
Johan Heyns , prominent leader in the Dutch Reformed Church
January 22, 2009
Mbongeleni Zondi , South African politician
Sudan
Tanzania
Togo
Tunisia
Uganda
Western Sahara
Zambia
Zimbabwe
See also
References
^ "Historic Assassinations Since 1865," The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2004 , p156 (World Almanac 2004 )
^ "Chief Political Assassinations Since 1865," The World Almanac and Book of Facts 1967 , p257 (World Almanac 1967 )
^ "explaining the conflict in central african republic" . Epiphany .
^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m World Almanac 2004 , p156
^ a b c World Almanac 1967 , p257
^ "Assassinations and Political Murders," 20th Century Timeline (Griesewood & Dempsey, Ltd., 1985) (Crescent Books, 1985) [20th Century Timeline ], p119
^ 20th Century Timeline , p120
^ "Historic Assassinations Since 1865," The World Almanac and Book of Facts 1982 (World Almanac 1982 ), p750
^ Cohen, David William (2004). The Risks of Knowledge: Investigations Into the Death of the Hon. Minister John Robert Ouko in Kenya, 1990 . Ohio University Press. p. x. ISBN 9780821415986 .
^ "Nigeria's Boko Haram accused of killing MP Modu Bintube" . BBC News. October 17, 2011.
^ "Gunmen Assassinate Oyo Assembly Lawmaker, Gideon Aremu - 360Nobs.com" .
^ "Killed the Matabele God: Burnham, the American scout, may end uprising". New York Times . June 25, 1896. ISSN 0093-1179 .