Word: volta
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...Cameroun, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo (Brazzaville), Dahomey, Gabon, Ivory Coast, Malagasy, Niger, Somalia, Togo, Upper Volta. Also admitted to membership was the Congo (Leopoldville), but the delegation was not seated, pending settlement of the dispute over representation...
...solemn black men advanced through the murmuring chamber to take their new-won seats. Carrying themselves with graven dignity, often combining ritual facial scars with impeccable European manners, they came from lands of jungle and desert whose very names were scarcely known to the West-Chad, Gabon, Dahomey, Upper Volta. The headlines went to Dwight Eisenhower, Nikita Khrushchev and Fidel Castro. But in the sweep of history, the 15th U.N. Assembly might be regarded as the time of the Africans...
...others, all African: Republic of the Congo (Belgian), Republic of the Congo (French), Dahomey, Chad, Central African Republic, Ivory Coast, Niger, Republic of the Upper Volta, Gabon, Mali Federation, Malagasy Republic, Republic of Cameroun, Togolese Republic and Republic of Somalia...
...Malagasy Republic on the island of Madagascar and the Mali Federation, a union of the former French West African colonies of Senegal and Sudan, sought and were granted their complete sovereignty. In the next two weeks, eight other Community members will become independent nations: Dahomey, Ivory Coast, Upper Volta, and Niger, which are loosely grouped into the Council of the Entente; Chad, French Congo, and the Central African Republic, which make up the Union of Central African Republics; and Gabon. Last week the last member of the Community, the desolate Islamic Republic of Mauritania, formally obtained from De Gaulle...
...agreed to what 20 months ago he refused to contemplate: full independence for African nations within the French Community. Last week, after the French Parliament and the Community Senate had voted constitutional changes to make this possible, four more former French African colonies-Ivory Coast, Niger, Dahomey and Upper Volta-said they would seek full independence...