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| National motto: None | |
| Languages | Igbo, English, ... |
| Capital | Enugu |
| Head of State (Jan 10-15, 1970) | Philip Effiong |
| Area - Total - % water | |
| Population - Total | 13,500,000 (1967) |
| Independence - Declared - Complete Nigerian control restored | From Nigeria - 30 May 1967 - 15 Jan 1970 |
| Currency | Biafran Pound (BIAP) |
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| National anthemA national anthem is a generally patriotic musical composition that is formally recognized by a country's government as their state's official national song. During the course of the 19th and 20th centuries, with the rise of the national state, most count | "Land of the Rising Sun" (to tune of FinlandiaThe Finlandia Hymn (in Finnish Finlandia-hymni is a patriotic song by Jean Sibelius which takes its melody from the last section of the symphonic poem Finlandia. The work was published as the last of twelve numbers in Sibelius's Masonic Ritual Music opus) |
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The Republic of Biafra was a short-lived secessionist state in southeastern Nigeria. It existed from May 30May 30 is the 150th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (151st in leap years). There are 215 days remaining. Events 1416 The Catholic Church burns Jerome of Prague as a heretic. 1431 In Rouen, France, 19-year old Joan of Arc is burned at the stake b, 1967 to January 15, 1970 (with the military's Chief of Staff formally announcing capitulation on the 12th). The country was named after the Bight of Biafra, the bay of the Atlantic to its south.
It was recognised by a small number of countries during its existence, including South Africa, however that country's support of apartheid discouraged wider recognition by other African nations that might otherwise have been sympathetic to the Biafran cause.
In January 1966 , Ibo officers in the Nigerian army attempted a coup, which was bloody and short-lived. In May and September 1966 , Ibo migrants living in northern Nigeria were the targets of mass killings. Most of Nigeria's 8 million Ibo (or Igbo) people live in what was then the Eastern Region of Nigeria, which had as military governor the Ibo lieutenant colonel Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu. He declared the region an independent state with a capital at Enugu, and his troops began seizing such Federal resources such as inbound postal vehicles.
Nigeria responded initially with an economic blockade, and brought military force to bear starting on July 6, 1967. In the ensuing Biafran War, raids were made by Biafran troops west into Nigeria in July and August. Nigerian troops soon recovered however, advancing into Biafra, and forcing the repeated transfer of the Biafran capital from Enugu to Aba and then Umuahia by the end of the year, and to Owerri in 1969.
By 1970, Biafra had been ravaged by war and was in great need of food supplies. Amid economic and military collapse, Ojukwu fled the country and the rest of the republic's territory was re-incorporated into Nigeria. Around a million people are thought to have died in the conflict, mostly through starvation and illness.
Biafra's national anthem used the Finlandia tune by Jean Sibelius.
This conflict inspired musician Jello Biafra in his choice of name.
Nigeria later renamed the Bight of Biafra as the Bight of Bonny.