AFRICAN PRESIDENTS WHO PERISHED IN A PLANE CRASH

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AFRICAN PRESIDENTS WHO PERISHED IN A PLANE CRASH

1. SAMORA MACHEL.. He was the president of Mozambique. He died in 1986.The plane was flying from Zambia to Mozambique and it crushed in South Africa, killing  35 others.

2. JOHN GARANG DE MABIOR. He was the first president of South Sudan. He died in 2005 on                                              a plane crash in his way back from Uganda.




 3. AHMED BOUCEIF. He was the prime minister of Mauritania. He died in 1979 on a place crush that claimed lives of 11 others. The plane that carried him was from Mauritania to Senegal when it crushed into the Atlantic Ocean

4 JUVENAL HABYRIMANA. He was the president of Rwanda. His plane was shot down in 1994, at Kigali airport. The same plane killed the then Burudi president Cyprien Ntaryamira.

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