>>>>>>http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article4968918.ece
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>>>>>Pretty old news there Tracy. I remember Biafra as a child when it was in the news. We did ourselves no credit there, but then no country has done a lot of good in Africa.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>Nick
>>>>
>>>>Interesting. The article is dated Oct 19, 2008 which is today.
>>>
>>>Notice the
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>>>May 12, 1968: Frederick Forsyth, at this time a freelance reporter, finds the breakaway region is now a charnel house
>>>From the archive
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>>I do now. Why would they reprint something from 1968?
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>I think they often reprint archive material. Especially when the journalist went on to do something else.
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>At the time I remember whenever I didn't eat my dinner my mother would say "Those poor Biafran orphans would love this" etc

I grew up hearing 'starving kids in China...' How times have changed...(although there are still many starving in China)