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Biafra — the Uli airlift
1968–70 — As blockade brings famine to secessionist Biafra, a night airstrip at Uli receives the world’s largest civilian relief flights. Perhaps a million people, mostly children, die of starvation. Hunger used as a weapon. Remember them.
This is one scene of Chapter 7 — Building States from Colonies in The Decolonization of Africa, 1945–1994.
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