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Suez

The Suez Canal zone was evacuated (i.e. "decolonised" for the purposes of this map) in 1954, hence the invasion in 1956. Invading forces did not occupy the whole zone so I don't think we can pretend it was any sort of annexation of territory. Wiki-Ed (talk) 11:09, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

The exact text on the map I based this on has the same "subsection" of Egypt with the text "Egypt (last withdrawal of British troops from Canal Zone 1956)". The Red Hat of Pat Ferrick ^t 01:50, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

Somalia

Please note that Italian Somaliland was kept by the Italians under a UN Trusteeship until 1960 when it merged with British Somaliland to form Somalia. Somalia should therefore not be pink. Also, Eritrea and Libya were only British for a short time before becoming independent, so are only marginal cases. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.128.108.171 (talk) 19:40, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

[Forwarded from en:File talk:British Decolonisation in Africa.png by Athaenara (talk) 06:53, 14 September 2009 (UTC)]