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25 years ago #OTD I observed a long Total #SolarEclipse in #Zambia: lots of pictures in the albums https://www.geocities.ws/skyreports/zam2001/index.html = https://web.archive.org/web/20130529024154/http://www.astro.uni-bonn.de/~dfischer/skyreports/zam2001/ and a long story (in German) in https://www.geocities.ws/skyreports/zam2001/bericht.html = https://web.archive.org/web/20120527054554/http://www.astro.uni-bonn.de/~dfischer/skyreports/zam2001/bericht.html

Really shocking. Comes a few days after #Zambia signed a cooperation agreement with #China and some are wondering if PRC pressure led to this happening.
It was a big effort to bring this conference (which was in #Taiwan

World’s Largest Digital Human Rights Conference Suddenly Canceled
RightsCon was delayed by Zambia's Ministry of Information for "thematic issues" and problems with speakers.