Shinzo Abe, a former Japanese prime minister, was shot and killed on Friday by a shooter who targeted him while he was making a campaign address on a street in western Japan. In the twenty-first century, assassinations have also occurred in Africa.
20 April 2021 in Chad:
Idriss Deby Itno, the president of Chad, dies fighting insurgents in the north of the nation. He had just received the results of an election that would have granted him another six years in office.
6 February 2013 Tunisia
Chokri Belaid, a leading member of Tunisia’s left-wing opposition, is fatally shot outside his home in Tunis. His murder, which was followed by the murder of another communist leader, Mohammed Brahmi, six months later, threw Tunisia into political anarchy, the aftershocks of which may still be felt today. Both cases resulted with no convictions.
20 October 2011 in Libya
After being deposed by a NATO-backed rebellion, Libya’s longtime tyrant Moammar Gaddafi is pursued and brutally murdered by revolutionaries.
March 2, 2009 in Guinea-Bissau
Joao Bernardo Vieira, the president of Guinea-Bissau, is assassinated by rogue soldiers in his palace hours after his competitor was slain by a bombing.
18 January 2001, DRC
Laurent Kabila, the president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is assassinated in the presidential palace in Kinshasa by one of his bodyguards, who is then shot and killed by security personnel minutes later.
