Biafran


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Bi·a·fra

 (bē-ăf′rə, -ä′frə)
A region of southern Nigeria on the Bight of Biafra, an arm of the Gulf of Guinea stretching from the Niger River delta to northern Gabon. It formed a secessionist state from May 1967 to January 1970.
Bi·a′fran adj. & n.
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Biafran

(bɪˈæfrən)
adj
(Placename) of or relating to Biafra or its inhabitants
n
(Placename) a native or inhabitant of Biafra
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Translations

Biafran

[bɪˈæfrən]
A. ADJ → de Biafra
B. N → nativo/a m/f or habitante mf de Biafra
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Biafran

(Hist)
n → Biafraner(in) m(f)
adj → Biafra-; Biafran war → Biafrakrieg m
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As peaceful protest is replaced by violent confrontation, Nigeria's fragile unity is threatened and there are ominous echoes of the 1967-70 Biafran war, one of the bloodiest conflicts in African history.
Crisis in Nigeria - dawning of a new dark age
Amadi's works of nonfiction include Sunset in Biafra (1973), which recounts his experiences as a soldier and civilian during the Biafran conflict, and Ethics in Nigerian Culture (1982).
Amadi, Elechi
While the Nigerian military shot down relief planes and carried out mass executions of Biafran civilians, Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, U.N.
The brutality of nations
and served as chief information officer for the Biafran cause in the Nigerian civil war (1967 - 69).
Okara, Gabriel (Imomotimi Gbaingbain)
About 555 Biafran flags and other insignia including belts, caps, shirts, books, fliers, stickers and a car were recovered from members of the proscribed Biafran Independent Movement (BIM) and the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) in Onitsha, the commercial city of Anambra State, during the clampdown by the Joint Taskforce (JTF).
May 30: We Recovered 555 Biafran Flags, Car Carrying Biafran Insignia In Anambra a JTF
The Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the three persons, including Senator Eyinnaya Abaribe, who stood sureties for the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, to within two months, pay the sum of N100m each into the court's account for their inability to produce the missing Biafran activist in court.
Judge orders Abaribe, others to pay N100m over Kanu's absence
For Eritreans who welcomed secession, aspirations that ignited their struggle have not come to fruition.In Nigeria, the republic of Biafra seceded in July 1967 and surrendered in January 1970.Unlike South Sudan and Eritrea, the Biafran secession was neither recognised by the UN nor by most African countries.
Dismissing talk of breaking away is futile if historical injustices are not addressed
Nigeria's Biafran War, one of the bloodiest in African history, ended in 1970 but reverberations of this seismic event continue to cast a shadow on modern politics.
Fresh look at an old story
Mr Kanu is a leading member of one of several Biafran separatist organisations, the Indigenous People Of Biafra (IPOB).
I'VE LOST EVERYONE; Three of his family killed in political fighting in Nigeria
Moses was from a wealthy Ibo Anglican family and horrified by news of the ethnic killings of Christians as the Biafran independence movement grew in Nigeria.
Standing out from the crowd; Newcastle's first black MP fled one of Africa's bloodiest civil wars in the dead of night to Kenton, Newcastle, where she grew up in a poor, single parent family. Chi Onwurah tells reporter KATE PROCTOR the defining moments of her life before Parliament
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