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Events relating to germany
Ken Saro-Wiwa, playwright and pro-democracy campaigner in Nigeria, is among a group hanged by the ruling junta
Nigerian forces expel Johnny Koroma from Freetown and reinstate Sierra Leone's elected civilian president, Ahmad Kabbah
SPD leader Gerhard Schröder replaces Helmut Kohl as German chancellor, in a coalition with the Green party
Buena Vista Social Club, a nostalgic documentary by Wim Wenders, triggers a cult for Cuban music
Mao Zedong inspires German artist Anselm Kiefer's Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom
Angela Merkel, leader of the CDU, replaces Gerhard Schröder and becomes Germany's first woman chancellor
Severe austerity measures in Greece persuade Germany to back an increased EU and IMF bail-out package of 110 billion euros
Relations between the USA and Germany are severely strained by the revelation in leaked documents that NSA has for years tapped Angela Merkel's cellphone
