Boganda, Samora, and Habyarimana: When plane crashes change history

Africa’s skies have a brutal way of rewriting the script. And no one ever sees it coming.

Photo credit: Joseph Nyagah | Nation Media Group

Few plane crashes have hit harder or faster than the one that killed Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana on April 6, 1994.

Habyarimana and Burundi’s Cyprien Ntaryamira died when their plane was shot down over Kigali.