European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 18, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Kenya s Kenyatta remains at Helm seeks racial peace. Key Tona Malawi s president Banda i attacked for South Africa ties. Nigeria s sir Abubakar died in ditch in 1966 coup. The people and the continued from Page 10 internal peace leadership also has seen the need and produced the beginnings of real economic cooperation in the area. The United nations in its efforts to Foster that cooperation has marked off these countries As Eastern Africa Kenya malagasy Republic Malawi so Mali Republic Tanzania Uganda and Zambia. Also in the group but not covered Here Are Ethiopia not a new nation and French Somaliland not yet an inde pendent nation. The . Has classified Botswana an Lesotho As part of Southern Africa. They Are both new Black nations. Theother states of Southern Africa Are White ruled. Swaziland still under Brit ish Rule is to become Independent in the africans have Learned that in the Wake of the winds of change some things have remained very much the same. Of n the brighter Side Africa now is being ruled by africans. If they remaking mistakes perhaps a kind word for coups counter coups revolutions and corruption then they also Are learning self government. The rest of the world reacts with Hor ror to stories of assassination violence and rape or chuckles about the Masa tribesmen s fight for the. Right to keep their loin clothes and sport Bare , however unless they be United nations diplomats can even name the new nations that have rushed to Independence in the last decade. For the record they Are Botswana Burundi Cameroon Cen trial african Republic Chad con of. The former French portion Congo the embattled former belgian Colony Daho Mey Gabon Gambia Ghana Guinea Ivory coast Kenya Lesotho malagasy Joe pubic Malawi Mali Mai Intima niger Nigeria Rwanda Senegal Siena it Oisiu somali Republic Tanzania logo i awl. Upper Volin and Zambia. Some of them were born in blood others in peaceful transition or by an abrupt grunting of Freedom by their erstwhile colonial masters. Poge 14 Ghana s Nkrumah is exiled with a Price on his head. Tute of development and aiding african development is the special Commonwealth african assistance plan scrap established after a London meeting of prime minister Sand Heads of state of the British Commonwealth in 1960.helpful As these outside agencies May be the obvious need is for Afri cans to help themselves and they Are working in that direction. I they arc however creating Struc Tures that could provide frameworks for strengthening and helping each such framework and the most remarkable is the organization of Afri can Unity Oak. Headquartered in the ethiopian Capi Tal of Addis Ababa it was formed in 1963 to mediate disputes and promote the Ideal its name implies. Its member ship includes not Only Black Africa Butalla the Independent countries of the continent except South Rhodesia also is not a member. It has not been recognized bits african neighbors As an Independent state since its unilateral declaration of Independence from Britain in 1965. The secretariat of the Oak i headed by Secretary general Dhillo Telli a former guinean Diplomat an includes a number of special commis Sions dealing with defense economic social cultural scientific and technical cooperation. A liberation committee i devoted to ending White Rule in South Ern Africa. Working closely with the Oak is the economic commission i o r Africa Ecaca United nations body established in 1958 to further economic and social cooperation Between african nations and to serve As a link Between them and the specialized . , like Oak is headquartered in Addis , France and Spain Are associate members of the .-Financedkca, which has set up an african development Hank and an african in Sti f african moves toward govern ment stability Unity and common markets seem slow it must be remembered that these Are very Young nations. A african might Well ask his continent s critics to Ponder the length of time i took the historically old countries of Europe to arrive at stable governments Settle their regional and Border disputes Ami establish common markets. If africans named their years 1966could have been called the year of the coup mostly of the military Vari Ety. On new year s Day col. Jean Bede Bokassa overthrew president. David Dacko of the Central african Days later the military took Over in upper Volta and 11 Days after thata bloody military coup ousted the Civili an government of Nigeria. Later in the year army officers intervened in Togo to save president Nich Olas Gunitsky when dissident units mutinied Only to depose him themselves in january 1967, the Vintage year . Both coup and counter coup occurred within 24 hours in Sierra Leone during March 1966, and in april col. Grunt sky s successor in to go narrowly escaped assassination while one of Ghana s ruling generals died in a military Mutiny. The year ended with the ousting of Dahomey s Gen. Christophe Soglo in de Cember. Soglo himself had engineered three earlier coups. Through the latter half of 1967 the Ever embattled Congo s Jen. Joseph Mobutu fought rebellious White mercenaries he himself called in to help put Down a africans blame tribalism on the Divide and Rule policies of the col onial Powers. Hut bitter tribal Ival in uric ii Nii he Iryll sins Iii cats critics in Len length of Linc if tool Lite historically old countries Oll Uro i lire us stable Orarn Neils. The stars and stripes to wit Tanzania s Nyerere has lot Western Aid by his policy key Lom Togo s president olympic was gunned Down in army coup. Still led by Ivory coast s Felix Hou Houet 8oigny. Senega reaped i sunday August 18,
