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Independence Day. 5 July. 1962. France. Algeria gained independence following the Algerian War and the Algerian independence referendum. France officially recognized independent Algeria on 3 July, but the Independence Day is celebrated on 5 July, the day of the fall of Algiers in 1830 and the beginning of French Algeria.
Eritrean War of Independence. Ethiopia becomes a landlocked country. The Eritrean War of Independence was a war for independence which Eritrean independence fighters waged against successive Ethiopian governments from 1 September 1961 to 24 May 1991. Eritrea was an Italian colony from the 1880s until the defeat of the Italians by the Allies of ...
This is a list of sovereign states and dependent territories in Africa. It includes fully recognised states, states with limited or zero recognition, and dependent territories of both African and non-African states. It lists 56 sovereign states (54 of which are member states of the United Nations ), two non-sovereign (dependent) territories of ...
Sierra Leone, [a] officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country on the southwest coast of West Africa. It shares its southeastern border with Liberia and is bordered by Guinea to the north. With a land area of 71,740 km 2 (27,699 sq mi), [11] Sierra Leone has a tropical climate and with a variety of environments ranging from savannas to ...
Restoration of Independence, first proclaimed in 1821. August 25, 1839. Peru-Bolivia Confederation. Bolivia. Restoration of Independence, first proclaimed in 1825. June 19, 1839. Belgium. Luxembourg. Grand Duchy re-established by the Treaty of London in personal union with the Netherlands (until 1890).
Bhutan was officially guided by India in its foreign affairs, but effectively pursued an independent foreign policy starting in the 1970s. Biafra – Republic of Biafra (to 12 January 1970) [j] Capital: Enugu. Partially recognized de facto independent state; [k] claimed by Nigeria . Bolivia – Republic of Bolivia.
Declaration of Independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1776. British government recognized independence in 1783 with the Treaty of Paris . Vanuatu. New Hebrides. 30 July. 1980. Independence from United Kingdom and France in 1980. Zambia. Northern Rhodesia.
7,447 African former Portuguese Army soldiers executed by PAIGC after the war. [8] [9] [10] The Guinea-Bissau War of Independence ( Portuguese: Guerra de Independência da Guiné-Bissau ), or the Bissau-Guinean War of Independence, was an armed independence conflict that took place in Portuguese Guinea from 1963 to 1974.