Today in African History;28th May

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On this day in 1995An outbreak of the Ebola virus killed 153 people in Zaire.
 
Also on this day in 2006Nineteen South African passport holders who were deported from the Democratic Republic of Congo for their alleged involvement in a coup plot on 26 May, arrived home.
Sixteen of the men were members of Omega, which had contracts with the DRC’s National Transport office for the training of security personnel in Matadi, Boma and Mouanda. The men denied the allegations and were released without being charged.
Equally on this day in 1991; Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front captured Addis Ababa, toppling the remnants of a Marxist government whose seventeen-year rule brought war and famine. Meles Zenawi  headed the provisional government for four years.

And on this day in 1950; in south Africa, Africans made a unanimous resolution for a “National Day of Mourning and Protest” on which Africans countrywide would be ordered to stay at home. The resolution was taken during a rally held in Durban on 28 May 1950.