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List of assassinations in Africa

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Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
117 BC	Hiempsal, co-ruler of Numidia		Hiempsal's death was ordered by his cousin, Jugurtha.
December 24, 1942	François Darlan, former Head of Government of Vichy France and High Commissioner of France in Africa	Fernand Bonnier de La Chapelle
March 4, 1957	Larbi Ben M'Hidi, Algerian nationalist and FLN leader		Hanged by French Army officers under Paul Aussaresses; his death was initially passed off as a suicide.
March 23, 1957	Larbi Tbessi, nationalist and president of the Association of Algerian Muslim Ulema		Thrown from a building by French Army officers under Paul Aussaresses; at the time, his death was passed off as a suicide.
June 21, 1957	Maurice Audin, Pied-noir and PC militant
March 15, 1962	Mouloud Feraoun, writer	Organisation armée secrète
July 8, 1976	Gaston Marie Jacquier, Catholic bishop	Abdessalam Abdelkader	Stabbed in a crowded Algiers street while wearing full clerical attire. The assassin had a history of psychiatric problems, but was suspected by some to have been religiously motivated.^[1]^[2]^[3]
February 3, 1987	Mustafa Bouyali, Islamic fundamentalist		Ambushed by Algerian security services.
June 29, 1992	Mohamed Boudiaf, Chairman of the High Council of State	Lembarek Boumaârafi	Shot at Annaba.^[4]
June 2, 1993	Tahar Djaout, journalist, poet and author		Killed by the Armed Islamic Group.
August 21, 1993	Kasdi Merbah, former Prime Minister of Algeria
March 10, 1994	Abdelkader Alloula, playwright		Killed by two members of the Islamic Front for Armed Jihad.
September 29, 1994	Cheb Hasni, singer
December 3, 1994	Saïd Mekbel, journalist		Assassinated with a car bomb in Aïn Bénian.
September 28, 1995	Aboubakr Belkaid, former minister
May 21, 1996	Seven Trappist monks of Tibérine		The monks were kidnapped by the Armed Islamic Group in March 1996, and reportedly executed on May 21; others claim that the monks were accidentally killed by the Algerian army. See Assassination of the monks of Tibhirine.
August 1, 1996	Pierre Lucien Claverie, Catholic bishop of Oran
October 22, 1996	Ali Boucetta, Mayor of Algiers
January 28, 1997	Abdelhak Benhamouda, trade unionist
June 25, 1998	Lounès Matoub, Berberist singer
November 22, 1999	Abdelkader Hachani, Islamic fundamentalist	Fouad Boulemia	Fouad Boulemia, a member of the Armed Islamic Group, was convicted for Hachani's murder and sentenced to death, but was later released.

Date	Victim(s)	Notes
November 2, 1992	Jeremias Chitunda, Vice President of UNITA	Killed by government troops as part of the Halloween Massacre.
November 2, 1992	Elias Salupeto Pena, UNITA senior advisor	Killed by government troops as part of the Halloween Massacre.
February 22, 2002	Jonas Savimbi, founder and leader of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola	His death marked the end of the Angolan Civil War

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
October 15, 1987	Thomas Sankara, Head of State of Burkina Faso		Killed in the 1987 Burkina Faso coup d'état organised by Blaise Compaoré.
December 13, 1998	Norbert Zongo, journalist

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
October 13, 1961	Louis Rwagasore, Prime Minister of Burundi	Georges Kageorgis
January 15, 1965	Pierre Ngendandumwe, Prime Minister of Burundi^[5]
December 15, 1965	Joseph Bamina, Prime Minister of Burundi		Killed during the 1965 Burundian coup d'état attempt
April 29, 1972	Ntare V Ndizeye, deposed King of Burundi
October 21, 1993	Melchior Ndadaye, President of Burundi, founder of the Burundi Workers' Party		Overthrown and killed in the 1993 Burundian coup d'état attempt
March 11, 1995	Ernest Kabushemeye, Minister for Mines and Energy
September 9, 1996	Joachim Ruhuna, Roman Catholic archbishop of Gitega
November 20, 2001	Kassi Manlan, World Health Organization representative		Murdered in a conspiracy after discovering that aid money was being diverted into private accounts.
January 1, 2017	Emmanuel Niyonkuru, Minister of Water and the Environment		Assassinated in Bujumbura.

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
September 13, 1958	Ruben Um Nyobé, anti-colonialist leader and founder of the Union of the Peoples of Cameroon		Killed by the French Army
November 3, 1958	Félix-Roland Moumié, anti-colonialist leader of the Union of the Peoples of Cameroon		Killed by the SDECE

Date	Victim(s)	Notes
April 13, 1975	François Tombalbaye, President of Chad	Killed during the 1975 Chadian coup d'état
October 22, 1993	Abbas Koty, rebel leader
April 20, 2021	Idriss Déby, President of Chad	Killed in the 2021 Northern Chad offensive

Date	Victim(s)	Notes
May 29, 1978	Ali Soilih, former President of Comoros	Killed after being overthrown in a coup
November 26, 1989	Ahmed Abdallah, President of Comoros	Overthrown in a coup.
June 13, 2010	Combo Ayouba, army chief of staff and former interim head of state

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
March 18, 1977	Marien Ngouabi, President of the Congo	Barthélemy Kikadidi and others	Shot in Brazzaville.^[7]
March 23, 1977	Émile Cardinal Biayenda, Roman Catholic archbishop of Brazzaville		Abducted and killed by soldiers
March 25, 1977	Alphonse Massamba-Débat, former President of the Congo		Killed for his alleged involvement in the murder of President Ngouabi
August 28, 2004	Angèle Bandou, former presidential candidate

Date	Victim(s)	Notes
September 19, 2002	Émile Boga Doudou, Minister of State for the Interior and Decentralization	Killed in a coup that started the First Ivorian Civil War
September 19, 2002	Robert Guéï, former President of Ivory Coast.	Killed in a coup that started the First Ivorian Civil War
September 19, 2002	Rose Doudou Guéï, wife of Robert Guéï and former First Lady of Ivory Coast.	Killed in a coup that started the First Ivorian Civil War

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
January 17, 1961	Patrice Lumumba, former Prime Minister of the Congo^[8]	Soldiers of the State of Katanga with the involvement of Belgian officials	Sent to the breakaway region of Katanga to be killed after being ousted in a coup led by Joseph Mobutu during the Congo Crisis
January 17, 1961	Maurice Mpolo, former Minister of Interior, and associate of Lumumba^[7]
January 17, 1961	Joseph Okito, Vice-President of the Senate and associate of Lumumba^[8]
January 29, 1993	Philippe Bernard, Ambassador of France to Zaire		Killed during an army mutiny in Kinshasa
May 6, 1997	Mahele Lieko Bokungu, Commanding General of the Forces Armées Zaïroises		Killed by Mobutu loyalists for attempting to negotiate a peaceful settlement with Laurent-Désiré Kabila during the First Congo War
January 16, 2001	Laurent-Désiré Kabila, President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo^[7]	Rashidi Muzele	Killed by one of his bodyguards
February 22, 2021	Luca Attanasio, Italian Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo ^[9]	Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (suspected)	Killed in an ambush in Goma

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
1962 BC	Amenemhat I, Pharaoh of the Twelfth Dynasty of Egypt		The identity of the assassin is unknown and the fact of the assassination is not entirely certain. Nevertheless, it is accepted as likely that he was killed in his bedchamber by members of his bodyguard as described in the Instructions of Amenemhat. The assassination of Amenemhat I is commonly cited as the first recorded political assassination in history.
1155 BC	Ramesses III, Pharaoh of the Twentieth Dynasty of Egypt	Tiye, Pebekkamen, and other members of the Harem conspiracy	CT scans of his mummy show the king's throat was cut in the course of the assassination. The conspirators, who were attempting to install Tiye's son Pentawer on the throne, failed, and (according to the Judicial Papyrus of Turin) were tried and sentenced to death by the government of Ramesses's intended successor Ramesses IV.
48 BC	Pompey the Great, Roman general and politician	Achillas, Lucius Septimius Salvius, and Julius Caesar
1121	Al-Afdal Shahanshah, vizier of Fatimid Egypt
1130	Al-Amir bi-Ahkami l-Lah, Fatimid Caliph
October 24, 1260	Qutuz, Mamluk sultan of Egypt	Baybars
June 14, 1800	Jean Baptiste Kléber, French general	Suleiman al-Halabi
February 20, 1910	Boutros Ghali, Prime Minister of Egypt	Ibrahim Nassif al-Wardani
November 19, 1924	Sir Lee Stack, Governor-General of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
November 6, 1944	Walter Edward Guinness, Lord Moyne, the UK's Minister Resident in the Middle East	Eliyahu Hakim, a member of Zionist group Lehi
February 24, 1945	Ahmed Maher Pasha, Prime Minister of Egypt^[10]	Mustafa Essawy ^{[citation needed]} .
January 5, 1946	Amin Osman, Former minister of finance.	A group of Egyptian army officers including Anwar Sadat.
December 28, 1948	Mahmud Fahmi Nokrashi, Prime Minister of Egypt^[11]	Abdel Meguid Ahmed Hassan
February 12, 1949	Hassan al-Banna, founder of the Muslim Brotherhood
November 28, 1971	Wasfi al-Tal, Prime Minister of Jordan		Shot by members of Black September during a visit to Cairo.^[7]
October 6, 1981	Anwar Sadat, President of Egypt	Khalid Islambouli	Shot while reviewing a military parade;^[7] see Assassination of Anwar El Sadat.
October 13, 1990	Rifaat al-Mahgoub, Speaker of the Egyptian parliament
June 8, 1992	Farag Foda, politician and intellectual		Islamist movement al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya claimed responsibility for the attack.
June 29, 2015	Hisham Barakat, Prosecutor General		Killed in car bombing

Date	Victim(s)	Notes
December 17, 1960	Ras Abebe Aragai, Prime Minister	Killed during a failed coup attempt
June 22, 2019	General Se'are Mekonnen, Chief of General Staff of the Ethiopian National Defense Force	Killed during the Amhara Region coup d'état attempt
June 22, 2019	Major General Gezae Abera , Aide to General Mekonnen	Killed during the Amhara Region coup d'état attempt
March 30, 2023	Desalegn Bokonja, head of the Prosperity Party’s office in Nekemte
April 27, 2023	Girma Yeshitila, head of the Prosperity Party in Amhara
May 8, 2023	Omer Lemma, head of the Prosperity Party in Haruka Woreda, Afar Region

Date	Victim(s)	Notes
April 17, 1967	Emmanuel Kotoka, member of the National Liberation Council and Chief of the Defence Staff	Killed during Operation Guitar Boy
June 30, 1982	Cecilia Koranteng-Addow, Justice of the High Court of Ghana	Abducted and killed along with two other justices by soldiers
June 30, 1982	Frederick Poku Sarkodee, Justice of the High Court of Ghana	Abducted and killed along with two other justices by soldiers
June 30, 1982	Kwadwo Agyei Agyapong, Justice of the High Court of Ghana	Abducted and killed along with two other justices by soldiers

Date	Victim(s)	Notes
March 1, 2009	Batista Tagme Na Waie, chief of staff of the army
March 2, 2009	João Bernardo Vieira, President of Guinea Bissau	Shot by soldiers during armed attack on his residence in Bissau in retaliation for the killing of Batista Tagme Na Waie
June 5, 2009	Baciro Dabó, former Interior Minister and presidential candidate
June 5, 2009	Helder Proença, former Defense Minister

Date	Victim(s)	Notes
February 25, 1965	Pio Gama Pinto, journalist, anti-colonial activist and socialist legislator
July 5, 1969	Tom Mboya, Minister of Economic Planning ^[12]
March 2, 1975	Josiah Mwangi Kariuki, Assistant Government Minister
January 3, 1980	Joy Adamson, conservationist
August 20, 1989	George Adamson, conservationist
February 13, 1990	Robert Ouko, Foreign Minister	Disappeared on February 12–13; found dead on February 16.^[13]
May 16, 1998	Seth Sendashonga, former interior minister of Rwanda
August 23, 2000	John Anthony Kaiser, Roman Catholic priest
March 5, 2009	Oscar Kamau Kingara, human rights activist
March 5, 2009	John Paul Oulo, human rights activist

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
July 28, 2011	Abdul Fatah Younis, commander-in-chief of the armed forces of the Libyan Republic	Possibly security guards or members of the Obaida Ibn Jarrah Brigade
October 20, 2011	Muammar Gaddafi, de facto head of state from 1969 to 2011		Killed at the close of the First Libyan Civil War. See Death of Muammar Gaddafi
September 12, 2012	J. Christopher Stevens, United States Ambassador to Libya		Killed in the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
May 12, 1863	Radama II, King of Madagascar		After Radama passed a controversial law allowing disputes to be settled by duelling, his palace was besieged on the orders of the Prime Minister, Rainivoninahitriniony. Radama was captured by soldiers and strangled with a silk sash; some historians believe he may have survived this attack and lived out the rest of his days in obscurity.
February 11, 1975	Richard Ratsimandrava, President of Madagascar		Shot six days after taking power in military coup.^[7]

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
May 10, 1965	Rampersad Surath, Political activist
May 10, 1965	Robert Brousse and Jacques Beesoo, Political activist and policeman^[14] in Trois Boutiques.^[15]
November 25, 1971	Fareed Muttur, Political activist (MMM)
November 25, 1971	Azor Adelaide, Dock worker and political activist (MMM)
1986	Cyril de Guardia, Raymond Desvaux de Marigny and Ambicaduth Sooknundun (Medine Sugar Estate executives)	Sténio Hervel (alias Piou Piou)	Piou Piou Hervel murders
1996	Babal Joomun, Zulfikar Bheeky and Yousouf Moorad Political activists (Labour Party)	Escadron de la mort	Gorah Issac murders

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
February 3, 1969	Eduardo Mondlane, anti-colonial activist and leader of the pro-independence FRELIMO movement		Killed by a parcel bomb
August 17, 1982	Ruth First, South African communist		Killed by a parcel bomb sent by South African Police
November 22, 2000	Carlos Cardoso, journalist	Nyimpine Chissano and Anibal dos Santos	Shot while investigating allegations of corruption in Mozambique's largest bank. Chissano and dos Santos were charged with orchestrating the murder.

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
April 12, 1980	William R. Tolbert, Jr., President of Liberia		Killed in the 1980 Liberian coup d'état led by Samuel Doe^[7]
September 9, 1990	Samuel Doe, President of Liberia		Tortured and killed on the orders of Prince Johnson.

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
10 July 1971	Ahmed Bahnini, former Prime Minister of Morocco		Killed during the 1971 Moroccan coup d'état attempt
16 August 1972	Mohamed Oufkir, Minister of the Interior and Defense		Killed after launching the failed 1972 Moroccan coup d'état attempt against King Hassan II
18 December 1975	Omar Benjelloun, socialist politician	Chabiba islamia

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
March 27, 1978	Clemens Kapuuo, Herero chief and politician
September 12, 1989	Anton Lubowski, leading white SWAPO activist		Shot in front of his home in central Windhoek, allegedly by members of the government's Civilian Co-Operation Bureau.

Date	Victim(s)	Notes
January 15, 1966	Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, Prime Minister of Nigeria	Killed during the 1966 Nigerian coup d'état
January 15, 1966	Ahmadu Bello, Premier of Northern Nigeria	Killed during the 1966 Nigerian coup d'état
January 15, 1966	Samuel Akintola, Premier of Western Nigeria	Killed during the 1966 Nigerian coup d'état
January 15, 1966	Festus Okotie-Eboh, Finance Minister of Nigeria	Killed during the 1966 Nigerian coup d'état
July 29, 1966	Adekunle Fajuyi, Military Governor of Western Nigeria	Killed during the 1966 Nigerian counter-coup led by Theophilus Danjuma.
July 29, 1966	Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi, Head of State of Nigeria	Killed during the 1966 Nigerian counter-coup
February 13, 1976	Murtala Mohammed, Head of State of Nigeria^[7]	Killed in an attempted coup led by Buka Suka Dimka.
October 19, 1986	Dele Giwa, journalist
June 4, 1996	Kudirat Abiola, pro-democracy activist and wife of presidential candidate Moshood Abiola
December 23, 2001	Bola Ige, Justice Minister
October 16, 2011	Modu Bintube, Borno state legislator	Suspected to have been killed by Boko Haram militants.^[16]
July 2, 2016	Gideon Aremu, Oyo State legislator and lawmaker.^[17]

Date	Victim(s)	Notes
December 1896	King Mibambwe IV Rutarindwa	Died in the aftermath of the Rucunshu Coup
December 26, 1985	Dian Fossey, primatologist	Possibly killed by gorilla poachers.
April 6, 1994	Juvénal Habyarimana, President of Rwanda, and Cyprien Ntaryamira, President of Burundi	Plane carrying the two leaders shot down by unknown attackers with a surface-to-air missile. The attack was the catalyst for the Rwandan genocide.^[7] See Assassination of Juvénal Habyarimana and Cyprien Ntaryamira.
April 7, 1994	Agathe Uwilingiyimana, Prime Minister of Rwanda	Killed during the Rwandan genocide
April 7, 1994	Joseph Kavaruganda, President of the Constitutional Court	Killed during the Rwandan Genocide
April 7, 1994	Faustin Rucogoza, Minister of Information	Killed during the Rwandan Genocide
April 20, 1994	Rosalie Gicanda, Queen Dowager of Rwanda	Killed during the Rwandan Genocide
May 1994	Jean-Baptiste Habyalimana, Prefect of Butare Province and then the only Tutsi prefect in Rwanda	Killed during the Rwandan Genocide
June 1994	André Kameya, journalist and Secretary-General of the Parti Libéral	Killed during the Rwandan Genocide

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
April 16, 1957	Kamal Al Din Salah, chairman of the UN Advisory Council on Italian Somaliland		Shot by a Somalian
October 15, 1969	Abdirashid Ali Shermarke, President of Somalia		Shot by one of his bodyguards, possibly for personal – rather than political – reasons
July 9, 1989	Salvatore Colombo, Roman Catholic bishop of Mogadishu
July 28, 2006	Abdallah Isaaq Deerow, former acting President of Somalia
June 17, 2009	Ali Said, Mogadishu police chief
June 18, 2009	Omar Hashi Aden, security minister		Killed in the 2009 Beledweyne bombing, for which Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility.
June 10, 2011	Abdishakur Sheikh Hassan Farah, interior minister	Haboon Abdulkadir Hersi Qaaf, Farah's teenage niece	Killed in a suicide bomb attack; Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility.
July 27, 2022	Abdullahi Ali Ahmed Waafow, mayor of Merca		Killed in a suicide bomb attack; Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility.

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
September 22, 1828	Shaka, King of the Zulus	Dingane and Mhlangana, Shaka's half-brothers
September 6, 1966	Hendrik Verwoerd, Prime Minister of South Africa^[7]	Dimitri Tsafendas	Tsafendas, a parliamentary messenger, stabbed Verwoerd to death with a dagger in the House of Assembly due to his opposition to Verwoerd's policy of apartheid.
November 22, 1977	Robert Smit, economist and parliamentary candidate for the National Party
August 17, 1982	Ruth First, anti-apartheid scholar and wife of Communist party leader Joe Slovo		Killed by a letter bomb; her death was ordered by Craig Williamson of the South African Police.
May 21, 1985	Vernon Nkadimeng, anti-apartheid activist
March 29, 1988	Dulcie September, head of the African National Congress in Paris
May 1, 1989	David Webster, anthropologist	Civil Cooperation Bureau
April 10, 1993	Chris Hani, leader of the South African Communist Party	Janusz Walus
November 5, 1994	Johan Heyns, prominent leader in the Dutch Reformed Church
January 22, 2009	Mbongeleni Zondi, Zulu chieftain and politician

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
March 2, 1973	Cleo A. Noel, Jr., US Chief of Mission, George Curtis Moore, Deputy Chief of Mission, and Guy Eid, Belgian chargé d'affaires^[7]		Taken hostage and assassinated by members of Black September; see Attack on the Saudi Embassy in Khartoum.
January 1, 2008	John Granville, diplomat for the United States Agency for International Development
June 14, 2023	Khamis Abakar, Governor of West Darfur State	Rapid Support Forces (RSF)	Killed during the Battle of Geneina of the 2023 Sudan conflict

Date	Victim(s)	Notes
February 3, 1969	Eduardo Mondlane, Mozambican independence leader and founder of FRELIMO	Killed by a parcel bomb
April 7, 1972	Abeid Karume, 1st President of Zanzibar and 1st Vice President of Tanzania
June 12, 1979	David Sibeko, South African black nationalist

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
January 13, 1963	Sylvanus Olympio, first President of Togo		Killed in the 1963 Togolese coup d'état.^[8]
July 29, 1992	Tavio Amorin, leader of the Pan-African Socialist Party		Shot in Lomé on July 23, later died in a Paris hospital.

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Benin

Burkina Faso

Burundi

Cameroon

Central African Republic

Chad

Comoros

Republic of the Congo

Ivory Coast

Democratic Republic of the Congo

Egypt

Equatorial Guinea

Eswatini

Ethiopia

The Gambia

Ghana

Guinea

Guinea-Bissau

Kenya

Liberia

Libya

Madagascar

Malawi

Mauritania

Mauritius

Morocco

Mozambique

Namibia

Niger

Nigeria

Rwanda

Senegal

Somalia

South Africa

Sudan

Tanzania

Togo

Tunisia

Uganda

Western Sahara

Zambia

Zimbabwe

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Date	Victim(s)	Notes
April 16, 1988	Khalil al-Wazir, military leader of the PLO	Shot by Israeli commandos in Tunis.^[7]
January 14, 1991	Salah Khalaf, deputy leader of the PLO	Killed in Tunis.
February 6, 2013	Chokri Belaid, Tunisian opposition leader
July 25, 2013	Mohamed Brahmi, Tunisian opposition leader

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
September 22, 1972	Benedicto Kiwanuka, former Prime Minister and Chief Justice of Uganda
February 17, 1977	Janani Luwum, Anglican Archbishop of the Church of Uganda

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
1896	Mlimo, Ndebele religious leader	Frederick Russell Burnham, British Army scout	Mlimo's death effectively ended the Second Matabele War.^[18]
31 July 1981	Joe Gqabi, South African ANC activist	South African Defence Force	^[19]^[20]
24 March 1983	Attati Mpakati, Malawian dissident
22 May 2008	Tonderai Ndira, member of the Movement for Democratic Change