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Poster by the American Committee to Keep Biafra Alive. Biafra attracted a large amount of international attention from mid-1968, when images of starving Biafran children began to appear in the international press. [13] [14] Biafran propaganda compared Igbo to Jews and the blockade of Biafra to the Holocaust.
Biafra began the war with only 230 soldiers at Enugu, which grew to two battalions by August 1967, which soon were expanded into two brigades, the 51st and 52nd which became the core of the Biafran Army. [132] By 1969, the Biafrans were to field 90,000 soldiers formed into five undermanned divisions together with a number of independent units ...
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]
On 30 May 1967, when the Igbos declared their independence from Nigeria and formed the breakaway state of Biafra, [47] the Nigerian and British governments launched a total blockade of Biafra. [48] Initially on the offensive, Biafra began to suffer and its government frequently had to move because the Nigerian army kept on conquering its ...
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For a month Nigeria claimed that Biafra was a part of Nigeria and it would stay so. It was not until July 6, 1967, when Nigeria invaded Biafra at the Battle of Nsukka . Biafra invaded Nigeria in August 1967 but were intercepted by Yakubu Gowon on August 21, 1967, and were repelled back at the Battle of Ore .
On May 30, 1967 Ojukwu officially seceded the Eastern Region and proclaimed the new Republic of Biafra. [2] Ojukwu managed to assemble a 3,000 man guerrilla force to defend Biafra's front lines. In early July 1967 Nigerian President Gowon ordered the Nigerian Army high command to regain control of the Eastern Region.
The siege of Owerri (15 October 1968 – 25 April 1969) was a battle between Nigerian and Biafran forces in the Nigerian Civil War.The capture was a major victory for the Biafrans because the victory opened up telephone lines, enhanced road telecommunications, and showed that with stiff resistance, Biafra could defeat Nigerian forces.