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  2. Nigerian Civil War - Wikipedia

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    Biafra was more or less wiped off the map until its resurrection by the contemporary Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra. [280] Chinua Achebe's last book, There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra, has also rekindled discussion of the war. [281]

  3. Biafra - Wikipedia

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    Biafra (/ b i ˈ æ f r ə / bee-AF-rə), [4] officially the Republic of Biafra, [5] was a partially recognised state in West Africa [6] [7] that declared independence from Nigeria and existed from 1967 until 1970. [8] Its territory consisted of the former Eastern Region of Nigeria, predominantly inhabited by the Igbo ethnic group. [1]

  4. Blockade of Biafra - Wikipedia

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    The largest organization in the United States that formed in reaction to the Biafra war was the American Committee to Keep Biafra Alive. [14] In West Germany the war resulted in an unprecedented mobilization and the amount of money raised, 70 million marks, exceeded that previously raised for any humanitarian cause. [17]

  5. Biafran Armed Forces - Wikipedia

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    In September 1969, Biafra acquired four ex-Armee de l'Air North American T-6Gs, which were flown to Biafra the following month, with another T-6 lost on the ferry flight. These aircraft flew missions until January 1970 manned by Portuguese ex-military pilots. [11] During the war, Biafra tried to acquire jets.

  6. Republic of Benin (1967) - Wikipedia

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    The Republic of Benin was a short-lived unrecognized secessionist state in West Africa that existed for seven hours in 1967. It was established on 19 September 1967 during the Nigerian Civil War as a puppet state of Biafra, following its occupation of Nigeria's Mid-Western Region, and named after its capital, Benin City, with Albert Nwazu Okonkwo as its head of government.

  7. Midwest Invasion of 1967 - Wikipedia

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    Nigerian military districts at the time of the civil war. Following the 1966 Nigerian coup d'état and the subsequent 1966 Nigerian counter-coup, a wave of resentment and hostility against Igbos because of their involvement in the former coup culminated in the 1966 anti-Igbo pogrom in which 30,000 Igbos and easterners have been estimated to have been killed.

  8. File:Biafra independent state map-en.svg - Wikipedia

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    English: Map of the secessionist state of the Republic of Biafra (1967 – 1970) as in May 1967. Note: The western boundary may not be accurate due to the low precision of the reference maps used which are also contradictory.

  9. Invasion of Port Harcourt - Wikipedia

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    "A Comparative Study of the Nigerian and Biafran Navies During the Nigerian Civil War (1967–70)". African Navies: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (1st ed.). London: Routledge. pp. 91–108. ISBN 9781003309154. Venter, Al J. (2016). Biafra's War 1967-1970 : A Tribal Conflict in Nigeria That Left a Million Dead. Helion & Company.