Editing Secession (section)

===Nigeria===
[[File:Starved girl.jpg|thumb|upright=0.75|A girl during the [[Nigerian Civil War]] of the late 1960s. Pictures of the famine caused by Nigerian blockade garnered sympathy for the Biafrans worldwide.]]
Between 1967 and 1970, the [[Eastern Region, Nigeria|Eastern Region]] seceded from Nigeria and established the [[Biafra|Republic of Biafra]], which led to a [[Nigerian Civil War|war]] that ended with the state returning to Nigeria.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Daly|first=Samuel Fury Childs|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781108887748|title=A History of the Republic of Biafra|date=2020-08-07|publisher=Cambridge University Press|doi=10.1017/9781108887748|isbn=978-1-108-88774-8|s2cid=225266768}}</ref> In 1999, at the beginning of a [[Fourth Nigerian Republic|new democratic regime]], other secessionist movements emerged, including the [[Indigenous People of Biafra]] led by  [[Nnamdi Kanu]] formed as a Political wing of the [[Republic of Biafra]].<ref>{{Cite book|editor-last=Moses|editor-first=A. Dirk|editor-last2=Heerten|editor-first2=Lasse|title=Postcolonial conflict and the question of genocide: the Nigeria-Biafra War, 1967–1970|date=6 July 2017|publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=978-1-351-85866-3|oclc=993762001}}</ref>