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Biafran children have bloated bellies in this August 1968 file photo showing the effects of starvation during a catastrophic three-year civil war in Western Africa, in which more than a million people died. It has been 30 years since the Republic of Biafra surrendered after just 31 months of independence from Nigeria. But to the southeastern Ibo people, the discrimination and neglect are as real today as when they seceded. (KEYSTONE/AP Photo/Church World Service/STRINGER)