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

26 October 1962- Operation PARAFUSO GRANDE: Portuguese combat assault on FNLA base at Caluca, the first heliborne raid sub- Saharan Africa

Holden Roberto with LtCol Santos e Castro, a Portuguese army defector, ELP commando leader and Roberto’s Chief of Staff, at Ambriz on the coast 150 km north of Luanda, on 25 October 1975

Rhodesian Alouette III helicopter (K-car) with a Matra MG 151 20 mm cannon

At Sa De Bandeira airport building, Maj Dries Van Coller, ZULU commander Koos Van Heerden and BG Alpha Cmdt Deville Linford on 24 October 1975; the MPLA had ordered the town defended, but South African troops seized the airport just as a plane load of arms arrived from Mocamedes

26 October 1972: Major Mathieu Kérékou led a putsch in Dahomey, dissolving the ruling Presidential Council and Assembly; he went on to rule the soon- to- be renamed #Benin for 29 years

24 October 1975-"We have been liberated by the South Africans!": Task Force ZULU captured Sa De Bandeira, 900 km south of Luanda

Wounded soldier of surrounded Egyptian Third Army being helped to a truck near Suez City by fellow prisoner and Israeli soldier, 26 October 1973

Fred Rwigyema, who led the victorious NRA column into Kampala in January 1986 and rose to command the Rwandan Patriotic Front before its invasion in 1990, shown her with a group of Rwanda exiles in Uganda, Banyarwanda, that joined the NRA in the mid-1980s

“Fred Rwigyema oyee. Long Live Fred Rwigyema! Shout loud so those in Goma can hear you!”: the coffin of RPF chairman Fred Rwigyema in Kigali on 2 October 1995. On fifth anniversary of his death, his body was exhumed in Uganda, and taken to Kigali #Rwanda for a hero's funeral

Colonel Muammar el Gaddafi last hiding place near his hometown of Sirte on 20 October 2011 where he fled to after a NATO air strike on his convoy. He was captured and killed byrebels. He ruled Libya since September 1969 when a coup d’etat overthrew the monarch King Idris I

"It would have been wrong for me not to come": 8,000 Africans greet Premier Harold Wilson as he arrives at Salisbury airport, #Rhodesia on 25 October 1965, for last minute talks with Ian Smith to stave off UDI youtu.be/oQOcIcWOEuA?si=RciT… video 1:04

Israeli soldiers leading line of Egyptian prisoners on the west bank of Suez Canal on 25 October 1973

13th Foreign Legion Demi-Brigade (13e DBLE) in French Somaliland, now Djibouti, Horn of Africa, in 1969. A patrol in the desert

24/25 October 1973: the @IDF was routed in the battle of Suez City with heavy losses, the final battle of the Yom Kippur War

Alice Auma, leader of the Holy Spirit Movement in Uganda, was defeated in 1987 and fled to Kenya. One of her followers, Joseph Kony, took up the mantle and formed the Lords Resistance Army shortly after. Indicted in 2005 for war crimes and pursued by the US, he is still at large.

25 October 1987: Alice Auma's Holy Spirit Mobile Forces were routed by the NRA at Magamaga barracks outside Jinja, Uganda and fled into Kenya

Rajeshwar Dayal of India, representative of Dag Hammarskjold in Congo, reviews ONUC troops in Leopoldville on @UN Day on 24 October 1960