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Happy new year dear Biafran War Reports readers !!! and welcome to 2026. I sincerely thank you all for your wonderful support and patience with us, by this I mean that last year, we were a bit erratic with our posting and towards the end of 2025, things even got worse as we had a serious technical breakdown of the site, which cost 2 months of non-publications – November and December. I apologise for these glitches and though we’re not completely out of the woods, your growing readership numbers was inspiring, encouraging and quite humbling. Therefore we promise to do our very best to give you all a better reporting this 2026. Thank you all once again and good luck and God’s blessings for the year ahead.
Our first report this year is to do with a call for truce by Col Emeka Ojukwu, the leader of the breakaway Biafran republic, made on the 12th of March 1969 via Radio Biafra. Col Ojukwu was asking for a month long ceasefire on both warring side and an arms embargo to allow for renewed peace negotiations with no pre-conditions.
However, these peace conditions by Biafra, were outrightly rejected by Gen Yakubu Gowon and his advisers in Lagos. They claimed that any ceasefire would only allow Biafra to re-arm, re-fit and re-train its forces and also try to increase its diplomatic standing in the world, using the proposed lull in the fighting.
The report in the British Guardian newspaper, on the 13th of march, also said that the British Special Envoy to Nigeria, Sir Dennis Greenhill had been to Nigeria and back where Gen Gowon, told him that Nigeria had no deliberate policy to target civilians with aerial bombing, a notion already stated by the Nigerian High Commissioner in London, Brig Ogundipe.
But a Labour MP from the UK, Mr Allaun (Salford East), had also visited Biafra and personally witnessed these indiscriminate bombings of civilian and he also visited Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Umuahia, the Biafran capital.
In conclusion, it appears that the British unwavering support for Nigeria, was unchanging and solid and that it would continue to supply arms to Nigeria and continue its diplomatic support as well.
The other bonus report attached for you, is an editorial by The Daily Telegraph. This will not be fully summarized here, but it called for continued support for Nigeria and it appeared to minimise the Biafran sufferings.
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