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This Friday, May 28, we celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of the overthrow of the terrorist regime led by Mengistu Hailé Mariam, now in exile. This national holiday truly greets the fall of a 17-year-old tyrannical system, but also the memory of a very special day. The sun has not yet risen over Addis Ababa. In a week since dictator Mengistu Hailé Mariam quickly left the former imperial palace ahead of the rebels' progress, residents of the Ethiopian capital have been waiting for the next battle in anxiety. Officially,…

March 26, 1991 - March 26, 2021. It has been thirty years since a popular uprising swept through General Moussa Traoré's regime. Three decades later, in Bamako, opinions are divided on the results of this change, which has led to a multi-party system. as reported from Bamako, Serge DanielLike Djiguiba Kéita from the National…