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dated February 24, 1959: Riots in Central Africa

One African was killed and at least 50 other persons injured when renewed rioting broke out in Blantyre and nearby Limbe. More than thirty persons were arrested in the rioting in the two towns and in a number of other centres throughout Nyasaland’s Northern and Central Provinces. The rioting began in Blantyre when police broke up a crowd gathered outside the clock-tower after a meeting of the African National Congress. Teargas shells were fired and the riot squad was called out. Many white planters living at remote bush outposts in Nyasaland have sent their wives and children away to the territory’s principal towns because of fears of anti-white violence, the Rand Daily Mail reported in Johannesburg on February 22.

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