Word: mauritanian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Four months ago, a significant new element entered African politics. Leaders of the moderate French-speaking nations, meeting in the Mauritanian capital of Nouakchott, formed the 14-member Organisation Commune Africaine et Malgache-the largest single bloc of nations in Africa. Built around the thriving Western-oriented economy of the Ivory Coast and Senegal's traditional cultural leadership of French Africa, the OCAM represents 36 million Africans spread over one-fifth of the continent. One of its purposes: to offset the radical foreign policies of such hotheads as Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah, create a new moderate center...
...African states want no part of their plans. Only a fortnight ago, the Organization of African Unity, the league they had hoped to dominate, rejected the radicals' demands for a hearing for the Congolese rebels, and last month a bloc of 13 former French colonies met in the Mauritanian capital of Nouakchott to give their official support to the legitimate Congo government of Moise Tshombe...
Amid all this ritualistic anti-Americanism came a surprising grace note. Meeting in the Mauritanian capital of Nouakchott, 13 former French colonies formed the Commune Africaine et Malgache and roundly condemned interference by anybody-notably including other Africans-in the internal affairs of other African states. Lest there be any doubt what they meant, they "solemnly affirmed the urgent necessity to bring peace to Congo-Leopoldville and aid to its legal government." It was the first kind African word for Moise Tshombe in a long time...
...Greater Morocco" and realizes, in any case, that its big neighbor is here to stay. Moreover, the King now has sufficient political strength to resist pressure from the nationalist Istiqlal Party, most dogged advocate of Mauritania's annexation. Last month, he decided to repatriate four prominent Mauritanian exiles who had been leading the campaign against their country, from Morocco for several years. In May, when Africa's leaders meet for a "summit" conference at Addis Ababa, Hassan is expected to make Morocco's new policy official...