List of people assassinated in Africa

This is an incomplete list of people who have been assassinated, or murdered in Africa.

Assassinations in Africa

Algeria

117 BC – Hiempsal I, co-ruler of Numidia
1942 – François Darlan, senior figure of Vichy France
1957 – Maurice Audin, communist mathematician
1963 – Mohamed Khemisti, Algerian foreign minister
1976 – Gaston Marie Jacquier, French Roman Catholic bishop^[1]
1987 – Mustafa Bouyali, Islamic fundamentalist
1992 – Mohamed Boudiaf, President of Algeria
1993 – Youcef Sebti, poet
1993 – Kasdi Merbah, former Prime Minister of Algeria
1994 – Abdelkader Alloula, playwright
1994 – Cheb Hasni, singer
1998 – Lounès Matoub, singer
1999 – Abdelkader Hachani, Islamic fundamentalist

Burkina Faso

1987 – Thomas Sankara, Head of State of Burkina Faso
1991 – Clément Oumarou Ouédraogo, opposition

Burundi

1961 – Louis Rwagasore, Prime Minister of Burundi
1965 – Pierre Ngendandumwe, Prime Minister of Burundi
1965 – Joseph Bamina, Prime Minister of Burundi
1975 – Ntare V, dethroned King of Burundi (disputed circumstances)
1993 – Melchior Ndadaye, President of Burundi
2001 – Kassi Manlan, World Health Organisation representative
2003 – Michael Courtney, Apostolic Nuncio to Burundi

Cameroon

1958 - Ruben Um Nyobe, leader of the Cameroon's People Union (UPC)

Chad

1975 – François Tombalbaye, President of Chad

Comoros

1978 – Ali Soilih, former President of Comoros
1989 – Ahmed Abdallah, President of Comoros

Congo (Brazzaville)

1977 – Marien Ngouabi, President of the Congo
1977 – Émile Biayenda, Archbishop of Brazzaville
1988 – Pierre Anga, rebel leader

Congo (Kinshasa)

1961 – Patrice Lumumba, former Prime Minister of the Congo
1961 – Maurice Mpolo, Lumumba associate, former Minister of Youth and Sports
1961 – Joseph Okito, Lumumba associate, former Vice President of the Senate
1964 – Jason Sendwe, Provincial President of North Katanga
2001 – Laurent Kabila, President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Côte d'Ivoire/Ivory Coast

2002 – Robert Guéï, former President of Côte d'Ivoire
2002 - Rose Doudou Guéï, wife of Robert Guéï and mother of politicians Franck Guéï and Francis Pėdou Guéï
2002 – Émile Boga Doudou, interior minister
2003 – Muhammad Ahmad al-Rashid, Saudi ambassador
2012 – Leeba Hussan, of Côte d'Ivoire

Egypt

Pompey the Great, (48 BC), Roman politician killed in Egypt
Germanicus, (19), Roman military leader, poisoned in Alexandria by Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso under orders from Tiberius
Al-Afdal Shahanshah, (1121), vizier of Fatimid Egypt
Al-Amir, (1130), last Fatimid Caliph
Qutuz, (1260), Mamluk sultan of Egypt
Al-Ashraf Khalil, (1293), Mamluk sultan of Egypt
Jean Baptiste Kléber, (1800) French general, in Cairo.
Boutros Ghali, (1910), Prime Minister of Egypt, by Ibrahim El-Wardan
Sir Lee Stack, (1924), governor-general of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, in Cairo
Walter Edward Guinness, Lord Moyne, (1944), the UK's Minister Resident in the Middle East; killed in Cairo by the Stern Gang
Ahmed Maher Pasha, (1945), Prime Minister of Egypt, in Cairo by Mahmud Issawy
Mahmud Fahmi Nokrashi, (1948), Prime Minister of Egypt, by a member of the Muslim Brotherhood
Hassan al-Banna, (1949), founder of the Muslim Brotherhood
Anwar Sadat, (1981), President of Egypt
Rifaat al-Mahgoub, (1990), speaker of Egyptian parliament
Farag Foda, (1992), Egyptian politician and intellectual
Hisham Barakat, (2015), Egyptian State Prosecutor^[2]

Equatorial Guinea

Atanasio Ndongo Miyone, Saturnino Ibongo, Bonifacio Ondó Edu, Armando Balboa, Pastor Torao and many others, (1969), Equatorial Guinean politicians, in murderous crackdown after coup attempt against President Francisco Macías Nguema

Ethiopia

Tilahun Gizaw, (1969), Ethiopian student leader

The Gambia

Deyda Hydara, (2004), journalist

Guinea

Amílcar Cabral, (1973), Pan-African intellectual, in Conakry, Guinea

Abudusalam Eduardo 2009

Aissatou Boiro (2012)^[3]

Kenya

Pio Gama Pinto, (1965), socialist politician
Tom Mboya, (1969), Kenyan politician
Josiah Kariuki, (1975), Kenyan politician
Lawrence Otieno Muga (1987), politician & teacher in Kasipul Kabondo
Robert Ouko, (1990), foreign minister of Kenya
John Kaiser, (2000), missionary (officially recorded as a suicide)
Starlin Arush, (2002), Somali Peace Activist and INGO Worker
Chrispin Odhiambo Mbai,(2005) Kenyan Constitution Review Commissioner
Melitus Mugabe Were,(2008) MP,Embakasi
Gorge Saitoti, 2012 Minister of internal defense
Jacob Juma, May 5, 2016, Nairobi, Kenya
Joseph Nkaissery, 2017 Secretary of defense
Chris Musando (Musando), IEBC ICT Deputy Director. August 2017.

Liberia

William R. Tolbert, Jr., (1980), president of Liberia killed in military coup
Samuel Doe, (1990), president of Liberia

Libya

Muammar Gaddafi, (2011), Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council of Libya killed by NATO supported opposition fighters during Civil War.

Madagascar

Radama II of Madagascar, (1863), king of Madagascar.
Richard Ratsimandrava, (1975), president of Madagascar killed just days after taking power in military coup

Mozambique

Eduardo Mondlane, (1969), leader of the independentist FRELIMO movement, allegedly killed by the Portuguese branch of Gladio.
Carlos Cardoso, (2000), Mozambican journalist

Niger

Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara, (1999), President of Niger

Nigeria

Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, (1966), Prime Minister of Nigeria killed during military coup
Alhaji Sir Ahmadu Bello, (1966)
Samuel Akintola, (1966)
Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi, (1966), military head of state
Adekunle Fajuyi, (1966)
Murtala Ramat Mohammed, (1976), President of Nigeria
Dele Giwa, (1986), journalist
Ken Saro-Wiwa, (1995), activist
Bola Ige, (2001), justice minister of Nigeria
Ganiyu Akanbi Bello, (2014), Yoruba Leader and businessman

Rwanda

Dian Fossey, (1985), primatologist, in the province of Ruhengeri; assassination probably planned by Protais Zigiranyirazo
Landoald Ndasingwa, 1994, Minister of Labor, killed with his wife and children in the first week of the genocide^[4]
Agathe Uwilingiyimana, (1994), Prime Minister of Rwanda killed with her husband the morning after genocide began]]^[5]]]
Juvénal Habyarimana, (1994), His plane was shot out of the sky as it approached Kigali airport, and signalled the start of the Rwandan Genocide.

Somalia

Abdirashid Ali Shermarke, (1969), president of Somalia
George Adamson, (1989), British naturalist, at Kora

South Africa

1828 - Shaka, king of the Zulus, near Stanger (now KwaDukuza) by his brothers Dingane and Umthlangana, with the help of Mbopa
1828 - Umthlangana, Zulu prince, stabbed to death by Dingane shortly after Shaka's assassination
1840 - Dingane, king of the Zulus, stabbed to death while on a military expedition in the Hlatikhulu Forest by Zulu Nyawo, Sambane and Nondawana
1956 - Henry Nxumalo aka Mr Drum, stabbed to death by an unknown assailant in Sophiatown.
1966 - Hendrik Verwoerd, Prime Minister of South Africa, stabbed in parliament by Dimitri Tsafendas
1974 - Onkgopotse Tiro, South African student leader, Tiro was assassinated with a parcel bomb while in exile in Botswana. This made him one of the first activists to be assassinated outside of the borders of South Africa. Tiro was buried in Botswana, later reburied in his birth Village Dinokane Near Zeerust
1977 - Steve Biko, South African anti-apartheid activist, killed in police custody
1982 - Ruth First, anti-apartheid scholar and wife of Communist party leader Joe Slovo, by pro-apartheid master spy and security policeman Craig Williamson
1985 - Vernon Nkadimeng, South African dissident
1988 - Dulcie September, head of the African National Congress in Paris assassinated in connection with her investigation into arms trafficking into South Africa from France
1989 - David Webster, Social anthropologist and anti-Apartheid activist
1993 - Chris Hani, leader of the South African Communist Party
1993 - Johan Heyns, prominent leader in the Dutch Reformed Church
2013 - Steve Khululekile, AMCU regional organiser, Rustenburg, North West, 2013^[6]^[7]
2013 - Nkululeko Gwala, prominent Abahlali baseMjondolo activist, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, 2013^[8]^[9]

Sudan

Cleo Noel Jr, US Chief of Mission to Sudan, shot by Black September terrorists (see 1973 Khartoum diplomatic assassinations)
George Curtis Moore, US Deputy Chief of Mission to Sudan, shot by Black September terrorists (see 1973 Khartoum diplomatic assassinations)
Guy Eid, Belgian Chargé d'affaires to Sudan, shot by Black September terrorists (see 1973 Khartoum diplomatic assassinations)
John Granville, diplomat for the United States Agency for International Development, New Years 2008.

Tanzania

Abeid Karume, (1972), first President of Zanzibar, First Vice President of Tanzania

Togo

Sylvanus Olympio, (1963), first president of independent Togo, in a coup led by dictator Gnassingbé Eyadéma
Tavio Amorin, (1992), socialist leader (shot in Lomé, died in Paris)

Tunisia

Khalil Wazir ("Abu Jihad"), (1988), military leader of the PLO, in Tunis
Salah Khalaf ("Abu Iyad"), (1991), deputy leader of the PLO killed by Abu Nidal terrorists in Tunis, Tunisia

Uganda

Benedicto Kiwanuka, (1972), Chief Justice of Uganda
Janani Luwum, (1977), Archbishop of Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and Boga-Zaire from 1974 until 1977

Zambia

Herbert Chitepo, (1975), Zimbabwean nationalist leader

Zimbabwe

Attati Mpakati, (1983), left-wing Malawian politician

References

↑ Kiser, John (28 February 2003). The Monks of Tibhirine: Faith, Love, and Terror in Algeria. Macmillan. p. 47. ISBN 978-0-312-30294-8. Retrieved 19 June 2017.
↑ "Egypt's state prosecutor killed in Cairo bomb attack". www.aljazeera.com. Al Jazeera And Agencies. Retrieved 27 October 2015.
↑ https://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2012/11/200524.htm
↑ L. Mushikiwabo and Jack Kramer, 2006, Rwanda Means the Universe: A Native's Memoir of Blood and Bloodlines, St. Martin's Press
↑ R. Dallaire 2004 Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda, Random House
↑ Another Marikana murder, NIVASHNI NAIR, The Times, 13 May 2013
↑ Marikana union official shot dead as South African tensions rise, DAVID SMITH, Guardian, 13 May 2013
↑ KZN: Anatomy of an assassination, Miki Moore, Daily Marverick, 31 July 2013
↑ South Africa: Killed for crying foul, by Andrew England, Financial Times, 26 August 2013

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