The Biafra Story: Part Twelve

"The Biafra Story: Part Twelve"

The only countries that formally recognized the Republic of Biafra as a sovereign nation were Gabon, Côte D'Ivoire, Haiti, Tanzania, and Zambia. However, governments such that of The Vatican, Israel, Rhodesia, South Africa, Portugal, and France provided assistance and moral backing for Biafra in various ways. France, in vehement opposition of British domination in West Africa, provided Biafra with arms and understood its right to self-determination, despite not granting it full political recognition. Great Britain, seeking to keep its former colony together by all means for the sake of its multi-million pound investments, provided Nigeria with military and monetary support, despite the countless anti-war riots which erupted in London and other British cities over the course of the war.

Gabon proved to be Biafra's closest ally. In a communiqué declaring Gabon's official support of Biafra, the Gabonese government writes: "Taking into account the atrocities committed with equipment and men supplied by foreign powers, the Government of Gabon considers that the Biafran drama has ceased to be an internal Nigerian problem and should force all African countries to take a stand without equivocation. The Republic of Gabon could therefore not maintain a guilty indifference in the face of the pogrom organised against fourteen million Africans, a pogrom which defies the conscience of all men whose unassailable rights are proclaimed in the United Nations Charter."#TheBiafraStory

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