Published on 12:00 AM, January 17, 2019

BITS OF HISTORY

(JANUARY 16)

2001: Congo President Laurent Kabila shot by bodyguard.

2006: Liberia's Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf took office as Africa's first elected woman president.

2011: French far-right National Front party elects Marine Le Pen to replace her father.

2016: Burkina Faso troops rescue hostages.