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| 1953 |
| | The two Rhodesias and Nyasaland are merged in the self-governing Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland | |
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| 1954 |
| | A radical manifesto and acts of terrorism alert the world to the emergence of the FLN, committed to independence for Algeria | |
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| 1954 |
| | Gamal Abd al-Nasser mounts another coup, this time against his colleague Mohammed Neguib, to make himself president of Egypt | |
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| 1954 |
| | Nasser escapes an assassination attempt by the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood | |
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| 1955 |
| | An armed uprising in Morocco persuades France to accept the principle of independence for the colony | |
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| 1955 |
| | Nasser alarms the west by buying eastern-bloc arms through Czechoslovakia | |
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| 1956 |
| | Civil war breaks out in Sudan between the Muslim north and the Christian south | |
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| 1956 |
| | The Sudan, declining the opportunity of union with Egypt, opts for independence as a separate state | |
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| 1956 |
| | Tunisia wins independence from France, with Habib Bourguiba as prime minister | |
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| 1956 |
| | French Morocco and Spanish Morocco win independence from the two colonial powers | |
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