This week in African history 24th – 28th November

• 1971, 24 November
  Agreement signed between Britain and Rhodesia to give Blacks greater political rights – which eventually lead to majority rule.

• 1990, 25 November
  President Felix Houphouët-Boigny remains in power after Côte d’Ivoire’s first multi-party elections.
• 1992, 26 November
  South African President Frederik de Klerk announces that full multi-racial elections will be held in April 1994.
• 1960, 27 November
  Felix Houphouët-Boigny elected as president of newly independent Côte d’Ivoire.
• 1960, 28 November
  Mauritania achieves independence from France.
• 1956, 29 November
  Tripartite Invasion of the Suez Canal Zone is officially ended under pressure from the UN.