List of people assassinated 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
• 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
• 1993 – Melchior Ndadaye, President of Burundi
• 2001 – Kassi Manlan, World Health Organization representative
• 2003 – Michael Courtney, Apostolic Nuncio to Burundi

  Cameroon

• 1958 - Ruben Um Nyobe, leader of the Cameroon's People Union

  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,, Roman politician killed in Egypt
• Germanicus,, Roman military leader, poisoned in Alexandria by Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso under orders from Tiberius
• Al-Afdal Shahanshah,, vizier of Fatimid Egypt
• Al-Amir,, last Fatimid Caliph
• Qutuz,, Mamluk sultan of Egypt
• Al-Ashraf Khalil,, Mamluk sultan of Egypt
• Jean Baptiste Kléber, French general, in Cairo.
• Boutros Ghali,, Prime Minister of Egypt, by Ibrahim El-Wardan
• Sir Lee Stack,, governor-general of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, in Cairo
• Walter Edward Guinness, Lord Moyne,, the UK's Minister Resident in the Middle East; killed in Cairo by the Stern Gang
• Ahmed Maher Pasha,, Prime Minister of Egypt, in Cairo by Mahmud Issawy
• Mahmud Fahmi Nokrashi,, Prime Minister of Egypt, by a member of the Muslim Brotherhood
• Hassan al-Banna,, founder of the Muslim Brotherhood
• Anwar Sadat,, President of Egypt
• Rifaat al-Mahgoub,, speaker of Egyptian parliament
• Farag Foda,, Egyptian politician and intellectual
• Hisham Barakat,, Egyptian State Prosecutor

  Equatorial Guinea

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

  Ethiopia

• Tilahun Gizaw,, Ethiopian student leader

  The Gambia

• Deyda Hydara,, journalist

  Guinea

• Amílcar Cabral,, Pan-African intellectual, in Conakry, Guinea

Kenya

• Pio Gama Pinto,, socialist politician
• Tom Mboya,, Kenyan politician
• Josiah Kariuki,, Kenyan politician
• Robert Ouko,, foreign minister of Kenya
• John Kaiser,, missionary
• Starlin Arush,, Somali Peace Activist and INGO Worker
• Chrispin Odhiambo Mbai, Kenyan Constitution Review Commissioner
• Melitus Mugabe Were, MP,Embakasi
• Gorge Saitoti, 2012 Minister of internal defense
• Jacob Juma, May 5, 2016, Nairobi, Kenya
• Chris Musando, IEBC ICT Deputy Director. August 2017.
• Aboud Rogo

  Liberia

• William R. Tolbert, Jr.,, president of Liberia killed in military coup
• Samuel Doe,, president of Liberia

  Libya

• Abdul Fatah Younis,, Libyan general who defected to the rebels in the Libyan Civil War
• Muammar Gaddafi,, Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council of Libya killed by NATO supported opposition fighters during Civil War
• Salwa Bughaighis,, human rights and political activist
• Fariha al-Berkawi,, politician and member of the General National Congress
• Mohamed Eshtewi,, mayor of Misurata

  Madagascar

• Radama II of Madagascar,, King of Madagascar
• Richard Ratsimandrava,, President of Madagascar killed just days after taking power in military coup

  Mozambique

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

  Namibia

• Anton Lubowski,, activist

  Niger

• Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara,, President of Niger

  Nigeria

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

Rwanda

• Dian Fossey,, 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
• Agathe Uwilingiyimana,, Prime Minister of Rwanda killed with her husband the morning after genocide began
• Juvénal Habyarimana,, His plane was shot out of the sky as it approached Kigali airport, and signalled the start of the Rwandan genocide.
• Grégoire Kayibanda, leader of revolutionary movement and pioneer of Rwandan independence

  Somalia

• Abdirashid Ali Shermarke,, President of Somalia
• George Adamson,, British naturalist, at Kora
• Yusuf Dirir Abdi,, Hon.MP, Somalia Government

  South Africa

• 1828 - Shaka, king of the Zulus, near Stanger by his brothers Dingane and Umhlangana, with the help of Mbopa
• 1828 - Umhlangana, 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
• 2013 - Nkululeko Gwala, prominent Abahlali baseMjondolo activist, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, 2013

  Sudan

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

  Tanzania

• Abeid Karume,, first President of Zanzibar, First Vice President of Tanzania

  Togo

• Sylvanus Olympio,, first president of independent Togo, in a coup led by dictator Gnassingbé Eyadéma
• Tavio Amorin,, socialist leader

  Tunisia

• Khalil Wazir,, military leader of the PLO, in Tunis
• Salah Khalaf,, deputy leader of the PLO killed by Abu Nidal terrorists in Tunis, Tunisia

  Uganda

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

  Zambia

• Herbert Chitepo,, Zimbabwean nationalist leader

  Zimbabwe

• Attati Mpakati,, left-wing Malawian politician