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Liberation movements have been fighting Government forces in the Portuguese dominated territories in African for a decade and more. In the words of the Angolan Leader, Agostinho Neto, they are working "to free and modernize our peoples by a dual revolution-against their traditional structure which can no longer serve them and against colonial rule". The United Nations has recognized the liberation movements as "the authentic representatives" of their peoples. The struggle in Mozambique is spearheaded by Frelimo (Frente de Liberacao de Mocambique) the Mozambique Liberation Front which claims control over more than a quarter of the country.

Forest wreath for a fallen comrade-in-arms. [Exact date unknown]

The country will become independent from Spain on Saturday, 12 October, 1968. Elections for the Presidency, the Assembly and the two Provincial Councils of the new Republic were held on 22 September, followed by a run-off election for the Presidency on 29 September, all of which were supervised by a UN Mission.
Women and children await the arrival of one of the Presidential candidates during the election campaign in Equatorial Guinea.

Sir Jonh MacPherson of the U.K., Chairman of the UN Visiting Mission, is shown in this photo being greeted by a Kukukuku warrior chief upon arrival at Menyamya airport in the Morobe District. [April 1956]

The UN Visiting Mission to Trust Territories in the Pacific departed from the UN Headquarters on 4 February to investigate and report on the steps taken in the territories towards the realization of the objectives set forth in Article 76b of the Charter. The Visiting Mission made a tour of New Guinea from 15 March to 18 April.

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Headline UN Trust Territory of New Guinea - Background

Caption Description The United Nations Trust Territory of New Guinea and the neighbouring non-self-governing Territory of Papua are administered jointly by Australia. Occupying the eastern half of the large island of new Guinea proper, which lies just north of Australia in the south western Pacific, the territories also include some 600 smaller islands of the Bismarck Archipelago and the Solomon island group. Population density is low, with an estimated (1969) 2 million persons living in small, widely scattered communities spread over 183,000 square miles. Many of the larger islands have high mountains rising from coastal swamps, with settlements dependent on shipping for transportation, while inland villages are mostly served by air. The economy is almost completely agricultural, with most of the people engaged in subsistence agriculture. There is an abundance of fertile land, including 10 million acres of good grazing grassland, on which the development of oil palms and livestock enterprises is being encouraged.
Toni Siliwen, of Radio Morobe, which is managed by the Government Department of Information, does her daily program in the Sepik language.

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Production Date 01/01/1972 11:48:54 PM

Country New Guinea

Credit UN Photo/Ray Witlin

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