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| 1982 |
| | | Yasser Arafat and the PLO move to Tunisia, after being driven out of Lebanon by Israel | |
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| 1983 |
| | | Government imposition of Islamic law (sharia) triggers renewed civil war in Sudan between the Muslim north and Christian south | |
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| 1985 |
| | | Live Aid, an all-day concert for famine relief in Africa, is held simultaneously in London and Philadelphia | |
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| 1986 |
| | | President Reagan launches an air strike against Libya, accusing Gaddafi of involvement in international terrorism | |
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| 1991 |
| | | Expelled from his own country, Saudi Arabia, Osama bin Laden moves to Sudan where he continues to develop al-Qaeda | |
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| 1991 |
| | | Morocco and the Polisario end hostilities on the understanding that there will be a referendum in the Western Sahara | |
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| 1991 |
| | | A new party, the Islamic Salvation Front, seems certain to win the Algerian election – until the army intervenes | |
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| 1992 |
| | | Algeria is plunged into a brutal civil war between a military junta and Muslim terrorists | |
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| 1992 |
| | | The New York company Dance Theatre of Harlem tours South Africa, with the slogan 'Dancing Through Barriers' | |
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| 1993 |
| | | The UN imposes sanctions because of Libya's refusal to cooperate in the Lockerbie air disaster enquiry | |
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