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Ahmadou Ahidjo
(b. Garoua, Cameroon, Aug. 1924; d. Dakar, Senegal, 30 Nov. 1989)Cameroonian; Prime Minister 1958–60, President 1960–82 A Fula Muslim from the north of the country, Ahidjo received a secondary ...
Burkina Faso
A landlocked country in West Africa surrounded by Mali, Niger, Benin, Togo, Ghana, and Côte d'Ivoire.Physical.Burkina Faso lies on a plateau, rising highest in the west and cut in the centre by the ...
Cambodia
Decades of war and political upheaval tore Cambodia apart. Democracy has been established but is fragileThree-quarters of Cambodia consists of a large central plain, through which passes the Mekong ...
Central African Republic
A landlocked country in Africa stretching west-to-east from Cameroon to the Sudan and south-to-north from humid equatorial forests bordering the Democratic Republic of Congo to the savannah plains of ...
French Community
A political union superseding the French Union, established by France in 1958 and comprising metropolitan France, its overseas departments and territories, and seven former French colonies in Africa, ...
French West Africa
Following the establishment of French settlements on the African west coast in 1659 and a gradual extension of the French West African territory during the nineteenth century, it was created a ...
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Hubert Bonin
The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World
The French colonial empire was a jigsaw puzzle of territories with different statutes (for example, colony or protectorate), all dependent on colonial tutelage and marked by social ...
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Guinea
A West African country with an Atlantic coast, bounded on the north by Senegal and Mali, on the east by Côte d'Ivoire, and on the south by Liberia and Sierra Leone.Physical.Inland from the marshy ...
Indochina
The peninsula of southeast Asia containing Burna (Myanamar), Thailand, Malaya, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam; especially, the part of this area consisting of Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam, which was a ...
Indochina War
(1946–54)A war caused by French efforts to reassert control over its former colony of Indochina, following its exposure to Japanese forces during World War II. During that war, the ...
Laos
A long, thin, landlocked country in south‐east Asia, bordering China and Myanmar (Burma) on the north, Thailand on the west, Cambodia on the south, and Vietnam on the east.Physical.Laos is mostly ...
Togo
A West African country lying between Ghana and Benin.Physical.Togo has a southern coastline on the Gulf of Guinea of only 56 km (35 miles) but extends inland for over 560 km (350 miles) to Burkina ...
Vietnam
Vietnam has partially liberalized its economy, but the Communist Party remains firmly in chargeAround two-thirds of Vietnam consists of the Annamite mountain chain, which snakes down the length of ...
