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The Nigerian Civil War, reluctance, hired mercenaries. The war lasted for 30 months from the declaration of an independent Biafra at the end of May 1967 until its final defeat by the forces of Federal Nigeria in January 1970. It was the first occasion since the Carlist wars in Spain when mercenaries fought one another fro

Mirage

Southern Africa (1) Rhodesia, which brought an end to the long-lived Caetano government in Portugal also signalled the end of the Portuguese African empire. The short-lived Portuguese government of General Antonio Spinola who led the military overthrow of Caetano did not favour rapid decolonization but he was replaced in Septem

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Southern Africa (2) Angola,by the MPLA government allowed it to stage a model trial and highlight the evil they were seen to represent in Africa. The CIA was already heavily involved supporting the pro-Western opponents of the MPLA before Angola became independent; then, on 19 December 1975, the US Senate by a vote of 54 to 2

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Island destabilization: Comoros, Seychelles, Denard,uring the early 1960s to his final exit from the Comoros’ story in 1997. In France where governments have always been cynically ambivalent about the use of mercenaries Denard was seen more as a mythical hero figure from the pages of . than as a ruthless peddler of violence and subversion for money.

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Papua New Guinea and Bougainville, became independent as a full member of the Commonwealth in 1975 and was thereafter treated as a country of concentration for Australian aid. Bougainville has large resources of copper and the development of these resources, inevitably leading to major changes in the lifestyle of the island, created

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Nicaragua and Colombia,uccessive governments throughout the present century to intervene in a variety of ways: with military force; by means of sanctions; with anti-drugs programmes; or by more covert operations, employing the CIA, military advisers or mercenaries, and by supporting proxies such as the . rebels from Nicar

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Budget

South Africa and Executive Outcomes,ought the National Party (NP) to power under Dr Malan until the collapse of the system at the end of the 1980s meant that South Africa was increasingly isolated until its ‘pariah’ status in the international community became an important factor in hastening the end of the apartheid system. When Brit