Word: mauritania
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...Senegal, Ivory Coast, Congo Republic, Chad, Gabon, Dahomey, Central African Republic, Upper Volta, Mauritania, Niger, Cameroun, Malagasy Republic (the former Madagascar...
...Western feelings with his role as a fighter for Moslem unity and North African independence. He has enemies on either side: Egypt's Nasser sneers that Bourguiba is a Western stooge; Morocco's King Mohammed V was enraged last fall when Bourguiba recognized the independence of Mauritania, which the King insists is Moroccan territory...
...rush to join. States as long independent as Ethiopia or as populous as Nigeria (40 million) are not eager to be camp followers of such newcomers as Ghana and Guinea. Similarly, the Casablanca conference made little appeal to the newly independent states of the French Community-one of which, Mauritania, fears attack by Morocco. Headed by Ivory Coast's President Félix Houphouet-Boigny, this group of nations prefers keeping their cultural and economic ties with France to adventures with Nkrumah or Nasser...
Last week the vast but thinly populated (650,000) French territory of Mauritania became the 18th nation to achieve independence this year. Tunisia quickly recognized it, but Morocco refused to, claiming Mauritania as a lost province willfully withheld from it by France. In October Morocco's fiery Deputy Premier, Crown Prince Moulay Hassan, 31, flew to Tunis to convince President Habib Bourguiba that he should back the Moroccan claim to Mauritania. Recalls Bourguiba: "The crown prince went so far as to say, 'If ever you want to lay claim to Sicily, we Moroccans will support you.' Sicily...
...18th, Mauritania, becomes independent this week...