Using scientists to further his financial interest in Central Africa, Belgium's King Leopold II creates the International African Association with the support of American and European explorers and scientists. The associations goal: to "civilise" the peoples of Central Africa. The association’s "explorations" will be designed to gather information ultimately for the profit of Leopold’s company and to facilitate the deaths of millions of Congolese people.

The British Foreign Office in London receives a telegram from Cape Town reporting the devastating attacks by the Bapedi nation of South Africa against the Boer Transvaal Republic. Britain seeks to take advantage by sending an army to conquer the Transvaal in the name of "restoring order." However, before the plan can be carried out, the Boers will make peace with the Bapedi.

The African Association is established, in London, to "promote and protect the interests of all subjects claiming African descent, wholly or in part, in British colonies and other place, especially Africa.”  To disprove skeptics who say black people are incapable of forming a political organisation, founder Henry Sylvester Williams (pic), a lawyer from Trinidad, restricts membership to black people. Whites may be granted honourary membership. In 1900, the organisation’s name will change to The Pan-African Association to reflect the inclusion of the African diaspora throughout the world.

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A regional airlines to serve West Africa, West African Airways Corporation, receives its first aircraft - a De Havilland Dove - in preparation for its first flight scheduled for next month, October 1947. The route is between Lagos and Calabar in British Nigeria.

The Tigrayan National Organisation is formed by nationalist leaders seeking a socialist revolution in Ethiopia’s Tigray region. The group's goal is to prepare the Tigray people for armed struggle, which will be fought by the Tigray People's Liberation Front when it is founded in February, 1975.

The worst air disaster to date in Zaire (Democratic Republic of Congo) occurs when an overloaded Zaire Air Force transport plane crashes while taking off at Kindu Airport, killing all 36 people on board.

The release of the film Yaaba establishes Burkina Faso filmmaker Idrissa Ouédraogo as an internationally critically-acclaimed director.

South Africa’s National Peace Accord, a critical step toward ending apartheid and establishing a non-racial democratic state, is signed by 27 political organisations and government.

The Human Rights Commission of South Africa reports that 3,400 persons have died in political violence since the signing of the National Peace Accord one year ago today.

Namibia signs a bilateral monetary agreement with South Africa, an essential step toward the normalisation of economic relations. (pic: Port of Walvis Bay -- South African territory handed over to Namibia on 1 March 1994)

To curb juvenile delinquency, a 10 p.m. curfew for Ghanaians under 18 takes effect in northern regional capital Tamale. Children and teens out after curfew are arrested.

The biggest demonstration in Mauritius in 40 years finds 25,000 Mauritians protesting for the second week in a row against they consider government’s inadequate response to an environmental disaster. A devastating oil spill from a Japanese tanker, which for some reason sailed to Mauritius and split in two, is fouling the pristine tropical beaches of this tourism-dependent country.

Uganda President Yoweri Museveni and Tanzania President John Magufuli co-sign a deal for a US$3.24 billion, 1,445-km East African Crude Oil Pipeline. When built, the pipeline will run from Hoima in Uganda to the Tanzania's port at Tanga.

As the Coronavirus pandemic rages globally, Seychelles has the overall highest percentage of its population vaccinated against the virus. Morocco has the absolute highest number of vaccinated citizens, about 36 million. However, 80% of African countries are missing their vaccination goals. (pic: Seychelles President Wavel Ramkalawan is vaccinated)