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...Although African nations have been shunting one another's citizens about for years. Recent examples: Gabon expelled 2,000 Braz-zavillians after a 1962 soccer riot; Niger deported 16,000 Dahoman civil servants last year...
...Help Needed." Africa's New Class demands jobs, and as a result bureaucracy proliferates. In the twelve governments of former French Africa alone, there are perhaps 200 ministers, where once 25 were enough. This pressure can lead to absurdities. In order to mollify his own youthful job seekers, Niger's President Hamani Diori last December ousted 16,000 Dahomeyans-the intellectual cream of West Africa -thus depriving himself of half his teachers and three-quarters of his Finance Ministry technical staff...
...could afford. Eager to create a sound, solvent state, he exercised his sovereignty in 1962 by raising Mali's cattle tax by 300% (to $1.20 a head), stubbornly insisted on collecting it. The Tuaregs saw no reason why they should obey. Blithely, they began smuggling their cattle into Niger and Upper Volta. When Keita's tax collectors cracked down, the Tuaregs began shooting...
Twenty minutes from Niamey, Niger, approaching for a night landing, the pilot of the chartered South African Constellation received an unsettling message from the control tower: turn away or have the plane seized on the ground. With his fuel tanks almost empty, the pilot had to set down anyway, and the Connie, its crew and 79 passengers-most of them white South Africans returning from European holiday-were surrounded by black guards armed with rusty rifles. Not until 24 hours later was the flight allowed to resume, and local authorities warned that in the future intruding South African planes would...
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