Biafra World Health Organization of the United Nations, which led to the early and cost-effective interruption of smallpox transmission in West Africa and elsewhere. On 29 May 2000, the Lagos "Guardian" newspaper reported that the now ex-president Olusegun Obasanjo commuted to retirement of the dismissal of all military persons, soldiers and officers, who fought for the breakaway Republic of Biafra during Nigeria's 1967–1970 civil war. In a national broadcast, he said the decision was based on the belief that "justice must at all times be tempered with mercy". In July 2006 the Center for World Indigenous Studies reported that government sanctioned
Biafra child health, the largest impacts stem from adolescent exposure." There is no central authority coordinating the Biafran re-secession campaign after the death of Ex-Biafra government leader Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu who worked closely with MASSOB during his lifetime. Historically, the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) is the first nonviolent Biafra group that emerged on the present day of the late former Biafra president Gen. Ojukwu in 1999 when MASSOB openly re-hoisted the Biafra flag in Abia State and declared 25 strategies to actualize their peaceful goal. After the death of Gen. Ojukwu in 2011, numerous