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A girl during the Nigerian-Biafran war of the late 1960s. Pictures of the famine caused by Nigerian blockade garnered sympathy for the Biafrans worldwide. The Biafran Airlift was an international humanitarian relief effort that transported food and medicine to Biafra during the Nigerian Civil War.
The neutrality was not universally popular, and a pro-Biafra lobby emerged within the United States to pressure the U.S. government to take a more active role in assisting Biafra. [193] The American Committee to Keep Biafra Alive was an organization founded by American activists to inform the American public of the war and sway popular opinion ...
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]
The American Committee to Keep Biafra Alive was founded by American activists to spread pro-Biafran propaganda. [49] U.S. president Richard Nixon was sympathetic to Biafra. Before he won the 1968 election , he accused Nigeria of committing genocide against Biafrans and called for the United States to intervene in the war to support Biafra.
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.
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.
Palestinians recite a prayer over bodies of persons killed in Israeli bombing in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip before their burial on March 14, 2024, amid the ongoing war between Israel ...
In August 1967, three months into the Biafran War, Biafran troops invaded the Mid-Western Region, to the west of the River Niger. They spread west, taking Benin City and reaching as far as Ore, where they were pushed back by the Nigerian Second Division, under the command of Col. Murtala Muhammed .