2024 in Africa

1 January
Egypt and Ethiopia become BRICS members.
Ethiopia announces an agreement with Somaliland to use the port of Berbera. Ethiopia also says that it will eventually recognize Somaliland's independence, becoming the first country to do so.
14 January Ã¢ÂÂ 2024 Comorian presidential election: Amid an opposition boycott, incumbent president Azali Assoumani wins re-election with 62.9% of the vote and only 16.3% voter turnout.

4 February Ã¢ÂÂ President of Namibia Hage Geingob dies at the age of 82, and is succeeded by his vice-president Nangolo Mbumba.

6 May Ã¢ÂÂ 2024 Chadian presidential election: Mahamat DÃÂ©by wins election to a full term as president, succeeding his father Idriss DÃÂ©by.
19 May Ã¢ÂÂ A coup d'ÃÂ©tat attempt in the Democratic Republic of the Congo reportedly led by Christian Malanga leads to unrest in Kinshasa. Government soldiers quickly intervene, arresting the coup leaders and reportedly restoring calm.
29 May
2024 South African general election: The ANC party fails to win a majority of the vote for the first time in South Africa's democratic history.
2024 Malagasy parliamentary election: President Andry Rajoelina's party, Tanora Malagasy Vonona, loses their majority at the National Assembly, winning only 80 seats out of 163.

10 June Ã¢ÂÂ A plane crash near Chikangawa, Malawi, kills nine people, including Vice President of Malawi Saulos Chilima.
14 June Ã¢ÂÂ 2024 South African general election: The ANC and other opposition parties agree to form a national unity government, with Cyril Ramaphosa being re-elected President of South Africa.
29 June
2024 Mauritanian presidential election: Incumbent president Mohamed Ould Ghazouani wins re-election to a second term.
2024 Borno State bombings: 30 people are killed and 100 are injured when three separate bomb blasts occur in the town of Gwoza in Borno State, Nigeria.

15 July Ã¢ÂÂ 2024 Rwandan general election: Incumbent Paul Kagame is reelected for a fourth term.
31 July Ã¢ÂÂ Moussa Dadis Camara, the former military ruler of Guinea, is found guilty of crimes against humanity in the massacres that occurred in 2009 and is sentenced to twenty years in prison by a Guinean court.

14 August Ã¢ÂÂ The World Health Organization (WHO) declares mpox a public health emergency of international concern for the second time in two years, following the spread of the virus in African countries.
24 August Ã¢ÂÂ In Barsalogho, Burkina Faso, 600 civilians are victims of a massacre by Islamists associated with Al-Qaeda.

6 October Ã¢ÂÂ 2024 Tunisian presidential election: Incumbent Kais Saied is reelected for a second term.
9 October Ã¢ÂÂ 2024 Mozambican general election: Daniel Chapo is elected president while the ruling FRELIMO party retains a majority in the Assembly of the Republic.
24 October Ã¢ÂÂ The first case of the 2024 Kwango province disease outbreak is reported in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
30 October Ã¢ÂÂ 2024 Botswana general election: The ruling BDP party is voted out of power, ending 58 years of uninterrupted governance. Duma Boko of the UDC party is elected President of Botswana.

10 November Ã¢ÂÂ 2024 Mauritian general election: The electoral alliance Lepep of incumbent Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth is defeated by that of opposition leader and former Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam, with the latter taking all but two seats.
13 November Ã¢ÂÂ 2024 Somaliland presidential election: Opposition candidate Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi of the Waddani party is elected president.
16 November
The 2024 Gabonese constitutional referendum is held and approved.
Algerian dissident writer Boualem Sansal is put in custody by Algerian authorities after his landing in Algiers.
17 November Ã¢ÂÂ 2024 Senegalese parliamentary election: President Bassirou Diomaye Faye's party PASTEF wins an absolute majority at the National Assembly.
27 November Ã¢ÂÂ 2024 Namibian general election: Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah of the SWAPO party is elected as the first female president of Namibia.

14 December Ã¢ÂÂ Cyclone Chido makes landfall in Mayotte, causing at least 20 deaths and bringing devastating damage to the island.

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