Little remembered now, but once the name Biafra as much synonymous with horrors, famine, and war as the names Sarajevo, Srebrenica, Rwanda or Darfur. In 1967, the Igbo people in Biafra, the oil-rich south east part of Nigeria, declared their independence, initiating a three-year conflict.
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Dany le Rouge | Gilles Caron
The upheavals of 1968, which at its peak sent eleven million Frenchmen and women into the streets began after an eviction of a squatter and disciplinary measures against a student Daniel Cohn-Bendit that January.