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Federation of Free States of Africa

Overview

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Overview

At first sight the Federation of Free States of Africa is about a groups of unfederated non-free non-states not spanning Africa.
This looks like an effort to replace the European borders within the Angola, Gabon and Kongos area with something that makes more sense. Given that it does seem to keep most of their outer borders, I don't know how effective that would be, but it might be a start.
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According to the website the Federation of Free States of Africa is an Alliance of Sovereign African States, whose aims and purpose are to promote Democracy, Freedom and Peace in Africa. The federations is also known as the African League for Peace and Prosperity.
On its home page are the flags of its members:
- Republic of Central Kongo
- Republic of Cabinda
- United Republic of Kivu
- Republic of Katanga
- Republic of Equateur
- Republic of Boyoma
- Republic of Great Kasai
- United Republic of Anzico
- Republic of N'Dongo
- United Kingdom Lunda Tchokwe
- Republic of Benguela
Someone who knows enough of native African politics could probably create understandable reports about each of these entities, with help of the memberships pages of the federation web site.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 24 February 2011

The similarity between the flag of the aspirant Republic of Benguela and the flag of UNITA [União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola / National Union for the Total Independence of Angola] is obvious. In fact, it may well be that the "UNITA - no Rooster variant" reported on that page may in fact really be the Republic of Benguela flag.
This similarity is not surprising, since the Ovimbundu ethnic group comprises the largest group in the Benguela region, as well as the leading component of UNITA.
Ned Smith, 26 February 2011