The Biafran war

Witness History: Archive 2012 - A podcast by BBC World Service

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Between 1967 and 1970 there was a civil war in Nigeria over the formation of the state of Biafra.Over a million people died through famine, disease and fighting.Witness hears from a man who fought in the war as a boy.(Image: a starving child in Biafra. Credit: Partington/Express/Getty Images.)