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| Abdoulaye Wade won a presidential runoff election in Senegal and peacefully took power, ending forty years of Socialist Party rule in that country (See March 19). | 1 |
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| RUF rebel forces in Sierra Leone's civil war took 500 UN peacekeeping troops hostage; it was not until July 15 that the last of these hostages were rescued (See July 15). The UN created an international tribunal to begin trying war criminals in Sierra Leone on Aug. 14 (See Aug. 14). | 2 |
| West Africa, country by country, from 1960: | 3 |
| The Encyclopedia of World History, Sixth edition. Peter N. Stearns, general editor. Copyright © 2001 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Maps by Mary Reilly, copyright © 2001 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. | |
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