Nigerian Civil War | |||||||
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Part of the Cold War and the decolonisation of Africa | |||||||
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Nigeria | Biafra | ||||||
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Foreign mercenaries:
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Nigerian Armed Forces |
Biafra Armed Forces | ||||||
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Casualties and losses | |||||||
45,000[4]–100,000[8][9] combatants killed 2,000,000 Biafran civilians died from famine during the Nigerian naval blockade[10] 2,000,000–4,500,000 displaced,[11] 500,000 of whom fled abroad[12] |
The Nigerian Civil War was a civil war fought between the government of Nigeria and the Republic of Biafra.
"Food was cut off from the 13 million inhabitants of Biafra"; Furthermore, "At the height of the war, an estimated 10,000 people (including 6,000 children) died from starvation every day".[13]