Mission overview
112 missions
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Training mission in Tanzania
The East African state of Tanganyika was granted independence in 1961. Under the leadership of President Julius Nyerere, ...
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United Nations India-Pakistan Observation Mission (UNIPOM)
Straight after the Second World War, the differences between Muslims and Hindus in colonial British India turned out to be ...
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Earthquake in Turkey
During the last century, Turkey was struck repeatedly by major earthquakes. One of them was in 1966. On 16 August, the town of ...
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Operation Aqua Vita
In the second half of October and the beginning of November 1966, Central Italy was hit by heavy rainfall, with particularly ...
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Netherlands Engineer Team Assisting Bihar (NETAB)
During the summers of 1965 and 1966, India was faced with severe drought. Large parts of the Indian population were at risk of ...
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The Tunisia Company
In the last week of September 1969, the North African country of Tunisia was hit by severe flooding. Devastating flood waters ...
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Pakistani civil war emergency relief
When British India was decolonised in 1947, the Indian Muslims were granted their own state, Pakistan, split into West Pakistan ...
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Air lift in Sudan
Sudan became independent on 1 January 1956. In theory, the new state was secular, but in practice Islamic principles formed the ...
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Food distribution in West Africa
In the years prior to the summer of 1973, there had been virtually no rainfall in West Africa. The severe drought brought famine ...
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Sahel detachment in Darfur
Between 1968 and 1974, the Sahel had had virtually no rainfall, not even in the rainy season. Severe famine was the result. ...