In the Nigerian Civil War, a Nigerian soldier was killed in the trenches clutching relief supplies after Nigerian troops liberated Ikot Ekpene in Biafra on July 6, 1968.

In the Nigerian Civil War, Nigerian soldiers were killed in the trenches clutching relief supplies after the Nigerian army liberated Ikot Ekpene, Biafra, on July 6, 1968.

　The Republic of Biafra existed from 1967 to 1970, declaring secession from Nigeria on account of the massacred Ibo people on May 26, 1967; after Nigeria's independence from Britain on October 1, 1960, a series of ethnic tensions and military coups occurred, and in 1966 pogroms against the Ibo people broke out. In the nearly three-year Nigerian civil war, about 2 million Biafra citizens starved to death due to a total blockade by the Nigerian military. From June to October 1966, pogroms broke out in northern Nigeria, where about 8,000 to 30,000 Ibo were massacred. and the Biafra War broke out. Internationally, the pogroms and famine were classified as genocide and condemned as a holocaust; on January 14, 1970, the Republic of Biafra signed a Instrument of Surrender, ending the civil war and renouncing secession.

　Ikot Ekpene in southern Nigeria, perhaps more than any other town, was severely affected by the Biafrian War of the Nigerian Civil War. It was a town of strategic, military, and political importance to both the Biafrian and Nigerian armies. During this bitter conflict, the town and the region changed ownership at least three times. After the war, new reorganization and state structures resulted in the massacre of most of the Anangu leaders during the war. The Anangu suffered genocide during the Nigerian Civil War. The war lasted about three years (1967-1970) and the Anangu lost a significant number of people.

　The Biafra War broke out in 1967 in Nigeria, Africa, and during the two-and-a-half-year civil war, Biafran citizens were cut off from food supply routes and more than 1.5 million people died, including from starvation. French doctors participating in the International Red Cross relief efforts broke the International Red Cross' rule of silence and publicly condemned the violence against Biafra civilians by Nigerian government forces, and on December 22, 1971, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) was founded. The organization was founded on December 22, 1971.