Mozambique: Independence Day
Mozambique celebrates its national day on 25 June each year, commemorating independence from Portugal in 1975.
Falkland Islands: Liberation Day
14 June marks the liberation of the Falkland Islands at the end of the 1982 War between the United Kingdom and Argentina.
Philippines: Independence Day
The Philippines Independence Day commemorates their declaration of independence in 1898 – but they had to wait nearly 50 years to actually achieve it.
Italy: Republic Day
The Festa della Repubblica celebrates the 1946 referendum which abolished the Italian monarchy and sent the House of Savoy into exile.
Ethiopia: Downfall of the Derg Day
28 May, Ethiopia’s National Day, marks the fall of Mengistu and the Derg regime, which presided over civil war for 17 years and the famines of the mid-1980s.
Cameroon: National Day
Cameroon celebrates its National Day on 20 May. However, the situation’s a little more complex than that – as a result of colonial history.