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...satisfied with that narrow triumph, Soccer Fan M'Ba ordered deportation of all resident Congolese, who have never been very popular in Gabon, even among nonsports lovers. About 2,000 Congolese were shunted into hastily assembled concentration camps, then shipped down the Africa coast to a Congo port. The Congo in turn retaliated against Gabonese citizens living in Brazzaville. Mobs ripped into the Gabonese neighborhood of Poto-Poto, devastating shops and homes and injuring dozens of Gabonese. Only the intercession of Congo President Fulbert Youlou prevented a massacre. "Try to control yourselves," soothed Youlou, "and we will emerge greater...
...tribal warfare. Nigeria once upbraided a Ghanaian team for hexing the Nigerian goalie with black magic. In 1959 a game in the Belgian Congo between the Luluas and the Balubas touched off a three-day war in which 20 people were killed. Fortnight ago, the former French colony of Gabon sent a team to Brazzaville in the neighboring ex-French Congo* for a game of soccer. The toll so far: nine dead, 70 injured, and several thousand citizens transformed into refugees...
...GABON (F.) Pop.: 440,000. Size: 103,089 sq. mi. Literacy: 6%. School attendance: 80%. Graduates: Under 10. Christians: 40%. Coastal region civilized; cannibalism, female circumcision still common...
...much cocoa and bananas we can absorb." Similar hurdles also confront Africa's two other common markets. One of them is a loose, twelve-nation union largely consisting of former French West African colonies. It is hampered by the reluctance of richer members such as Cameroun and Gabon to get too involved with such poorer sisters as Chad. The other African common market is a bloc of four East African states-Tanganyika, Kenya, Uganda and Zanzibar-that are in various stages of emerging from British colonialism...
...Cameroun, Central African Republic, Chad, the two Congos, Dahomey, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Malagasy Republic, Mau ritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Togo and Upper Volta...