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NIGERIA - BIAFRA - CONFLICT - ANNIVERSARY - HISTORY

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NIGERIA - BIAFRA - CONFLICT - ANNIVERSARY - HISTORY
Veterans of the Nigerian civil war, wearing the red, green and black of the Biafra flag, are received by political activist and leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) movement Nnamdi Kanu (not pictured) at the garden of Kanu's house in Umuahia, southeast Nigeria, on May 26, 2017, before the 50th anniversary of the war to be commemorated on May 30. The war was triggered when the Igbo people, the main ethnic group in the southeast, declared an independent breakaway state, the Republic of Biafra.
MARCO LONGARI / AFP
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NIGERIA - BIAFRA - CONFLICT - ANNIVERSARY - HISTORY

NIGERIA - BIAFRA - CONFLICT - ANNIVERSARY - HISTORY
Veterans of the Nigerian civil war, wearing the red, green and black of the Biafra flag, are received by political activist and leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) movement Nnamdi Kanu (not pictured) at the garden of Kanu's house in Umuahia, southeast Nigeria, on May 26, 2017, before the 50th anniversary of the war to be commemorated on May 30. The war was triggered when the Igbo people, the main ethnic group in the southeast, declared an independent breakaway state, the Republic of Biafra.
MARCO LONGARI / AFP

 

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