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Author Omaka, Arua Oko, author.

Title The Biafran humanitarian crisis, 1967-1970 : international human rights and joint church aid / Arua Oko Omaka.

Publication Info. Madison : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Lanham, Maryland : The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2016]
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Description 1 online resource.
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Series The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press series in law, culture, and the humanities
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press series in law, culture, and the humanities.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction -- The colonial design and military incursion -- The Gowon regime and the secession of Eastern Nigeria -- Humanitarian impulse -- Joint church aid: formation and relief organization -- The relief war: obstacles and debates -- Conclusion.
Summary This book focuses on the humanitarian crisis in Biafra from 1967 to 1970 and the historic response of church groups from different parts of the world. This is the first scholarly work to establish the Joint Church Aid as the foundation of modern day international humanitarian aid.
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Subject Nigeria -- History -- Civil War, 1967-1970.
Nigeria -- History -- Civil War, 1967-1970 -- Civilian relief.
Food relief -- Nigeria, Eastern -- History.
Food relief.
Eastern Nigeria.
History.
Humanitarian assistance -- Nigeria, Eastern -- History.
Nigeria, Eastern -- History -- 20th century.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Humanitarian assistance.
HISTORY -- Africa -- West.
Civilian war relief.
Nigeria.
Nigerian Civil War (Nigeria : 1967-1970)
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form History.
Other Form: Print version: Omaka, Arua Oko. Biafran humanitarian crisis, 1967-1970. Madison : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, [2016] 9781611479737 (DLC) 2016038098
ISBN 9781611479744 (electronic book)
1611479746 (electronic book)
9781611479737 (hardcover)
1611479738 (hardcover)
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