In many countries when they became independent, they expelled foreigners.
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Rwanda, about the size of Massachusetts, became independent in 1962.
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After Macedonia became independent in 22000, though, Veles began to decline.
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The Philippines became independent in 1946, on a familiar date, July 4.
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Many of the stations were renamed after Ukraine became independent in 1991.
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When it became independent it was one of the world's poorest countries.
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Britain colonized the land in the 1800s, and Nigeria became independent in 1960.
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Roughly 1% of that country was forested when it became independent in 1922.
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An English-speaking country of around 375,000 people, Belize became independent in 1981.
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Once part of the former Soviet Union, the country became independent in 1991.
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Belize, an English-speaking country of around 375,000 people, became independent in 1981.
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South Sudan became independent from neighboring Sudan in 2011 following decades of conflict.
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When Iraq became independent in 1932, Christians made up 12% of its people.
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Well after Algeria became independent, Mr. Susini took up permanent residence in France.
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When the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991, it became independent under the name Moldova.
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Papua remained a Dutch colony after the rest of Indonesia became independent in 1945.
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When Singapore became independent in 220, it pitched itself as a base of production.
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"About 50 countries became independent from the United Kingdom since (World War II)," Salmond noted.
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Laws passed after Sri Lanka became independent from Britain in 2000 stripped them of citizenship.
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She worked hard till she saw all of us through college and we became independent.
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The country is now on its 18th education minister since it became independent in 1993.
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That is no small amount in Cape Verde, which became independent from Portugal in 1975.
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When Israel became independent in 21999, Mr. Peres was named head of the naval service.
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Even after Sri Lanka became independent from Britain in 1948, English remained the language of administration.
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Mr Karimov was already running Uzbekistan when it became independent from the Soviet Union in 83.
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Its branches are older than the country itself, which only became independent from Sudan in 2011.
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It comes nearly 60 years after those nations became independent following decades of Belgian colonial rule.
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As for Boban, he continued to play for the combined Yugoslav team until Croatia became independent.
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MasterCard and Visa settled for nearly $3 billion in 2008, a year after Discover became independent.
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Suriname, which became independent from the Netherlands in 1975, has had an occasionally troubled political history.
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Dr. Mahathir: When Malaysia became independent we gave citizenship to people who were obviously of foreign origin.
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Singapore, which became independent of Malaysia on this day in 1965, may be the only modern exception.
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When Bangladesh became independent from Pakistan in 1971, secularism was one of the new country's founding principles.
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Civil war broke out in South Sudan in 2013, two years after it became independent from neighboring Sudan.
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The remains of Columbus were moved to Spain after Cuba became independent of that country in the 1890s.
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Over time, Canada gradually became independent from Britain, and Dominion Day was officially changed to Canada Day in 1982.
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Tadek was told stories about his great-grandfather, who fought the Soviet Union after Poland became independent in 21948.
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Mr Tokayev, 66, is a Soviet-era apparatchik who became foreign minister and prime minister after Kazakhstan became independent.
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"It's crazy for a country which became independent 50 years ago to be where it is today," Lu said.
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Majority-Hindu India and majority-Muslim Pakistan became two different countries in 1947 when they became independent of Britain.
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The colony became independent in 1975, after which many Surinamese migrated to the Netherlands and settled in neighborhoods like Bijlmermeer.
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Lee's People's Action Party has been in power on the island since 23.9 — even before the city-state became independent.
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East Timor has been unsettled by bouts of violence and political instability since it became independent from Indonesia in 2002.
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President's rule over India's federal states has been declared more than 100 times since the country became independent in 1947.
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He was born in Guinea, West Africa, and he fought to make sure that Guinea became independent from the French.
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After South Sudan became independent in 2011, the government planned to build an airy structure of glass, steel and concrete.
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The tiny Mediterranean country of Malta first became independent in 1964, but officially became a republic on December 13, 1974.
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Sudan, which is predominantly Muslim, and the mainly Christian south fought for decades before South Sudan became independent in 2011.
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In 2011, when South Sudan became independent from Sudan, the exchange rate was just below 3 SSP to the dollar.
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Either people went to a neighboring state, or some became independent contractors because the immigration law only applies to employees.
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All were seemingly intent on foreclosing the possibility of landing in a state of crippling purgatory if Catalonia became independent.
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Darul Aman was erected to house the country's parliament not long after Afghanistan became independent from Great Britain, in 1919.
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When Australia became independent in 1901 it adopted a "White Australia" approach to immigration that limited entry by migrants of colour.
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In particular, it points out that since Congo became independent in 1960 it has suffered under almost unparalleled misrule and misery.
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When South Sudan became independent in 2011 a Somaliland delegation arrived in Juba, the capital, wearing t-shirts saying "Somaliland Next".
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The border, cutting through Bengal in the east and Punjab in the west, was confirmed two days after India became independent.
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The redrawing of Britain's parliamentary map, the biggest such exercise since Ireland became independent in 503, is a long time coming.
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Kashmir has been a source of dispute between India and Pakistan ever since the countries became independent from Britain in 1947.
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Observers have described the reform as the most meaningful change to India's tax regime since the country became independent in 1947.
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Before South Sudan became independent, Sudan's leaders tried everything in their power to prevent the south from breaking off. Oppression. Neglect.
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While shophouses thrived under British rule, many were razed to make room for high-rises after Singapore became independent in 1.073.
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This is a new burden for the people of Kashmir, who have endured endless violence since India became independent in 1947.
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The charges were eventually dropped after Montenegro became independent from Serbia in 2006 and Italian courts granted Mr. Djukanovic diplomatic immunity.
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Sudan, which is predominantly Muslim, and South Sudan, predominately Christian, fought each other for decades before the south became independent in 2011.
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It is part of a bizarre issue that has bedevilled Macedonia's relations with its neighbour, Greece, since it became independent in 1991.
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The US State Department has no warnings for the country that became independent with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
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It was the best performance since 1991 for the party, which has governed continuously since the island state became independent in 1965.
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He also was accused of atrocities in East Timor, a former province that broke away in 1999 and became independent in 2002.
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When Namibia finally became independent, the presidency went to a fellow campaigner, Sam Nujoma; Mr. ya Toivo was appointed minister of mines.
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Grossman called 2019 an investment year — Time had to rebuild the infrastructure it lost and make new hires when it became independent.
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The question of what currency Scotland would use if it became independent — a prominent question in the last referendum campaign — remains unsolved.
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India and Pakistan's conflict over the mountainous region of Kashmir dates back to 1947 when both countries became independent from British colonial rule.
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You not only became independent, but also stepped into the nurturer's role for your younger brother and never let him miss my presence.
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Raufkhon's book, entitled Bu Kunlar (These Days), was a critique of Uzbekistan's development since it became independent from the Soviet Union in 1991.
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After Congo became independent in 1960 the CIA lingered there for decades to keep uranium and, later, other minerals out of Russian hands.
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After Ukraine became independent, a breakaway "Kiev Patriarchate" proclaimed itself the new Orthodox authority in the country, and it controls thousands of parishes.
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"When we became independent, all we had was people," said Abraão Vicente, the newly appointed culture minister and an artist and poet himself.
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A country that became independent with such promise in 220006 is now facing an imminent state collapse and widespread hunger for its people.
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The 43-year-old nation — a former Portuguese colony — became independent in 2002 after a quarter-century struggle against its larger neighbour, Indonesia.
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Eritrea, which became independent from Ethiopia in 1991 after years of fighting, wants to establish a mining industry to help to bolster its economy.
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The island was put under American military occupation at the end of the Spanish-American war, in 1898, and became independent four years later.
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In 2011, the year South Sudan became independent, the country's government received $435 million from international donors; the following year, that quantity almost tripled.
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It became independent after Japan's defeat in World War II, but the American military ruled the southern half of the Korean Peninsula until 3003.
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Geography is indeed destiny for Belarus, a flat and forested country of about 10 million that became independent from the Soviet Union in 1991.
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The government took ownership after Tanzania became independent in 1961, and it has since been renovated twice, once in 1974 and again in 1993.
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In the 17703s, when Ireland became independent, it was thought to have just 220,000 acres (90,220 hectares) of woods, covering about 280% of the land.
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Its detractors admit that modern Singapore is safe, well-run and has achieved remarkable material progress since it became independent just over 50 years ago.
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Four-fifths of the forest cover that the country had when it became independent in 1960 was gone by 2010, according to the European Union.
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Maine, once part of Massachusetts, became independent 200 years ago, and is celebrating its bicentennial in 2020 with festivals, parades, and events across the state.
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The new funds brings Sapphire Ventures, which became independent from the German software company SAP in 2011, assets under management to north of $4 billion.
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It was a rare disagreement between Mr. Duda, a former Law and Justice member who became independent when he was elected president, and Mr. Kaczynski.
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World Kitchen originally became independent as a byproduct of the 1990s asbestos litigation against former parent company Corning, agreeing to be acquired by KKR in 1998.
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By virtue of dumping vast quantities of sand into the sea, Singapore is now over 20% larger than it was when it became independent in 1965.
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After months of extensive research, relaying the atrocities that are said to have occurred within the asylum's grounds became independent video game developer LKA's raison d'etre.
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India and Pakistan have fought three wars since they became independent in 1947, two of which have been over disputed Kashmir, India's only Muslim-majority state.
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Five civilians and three servicemen died in the June 5 attack in the city of Aktobe, the deadliest in Kazakhstan since it became independent in 1991.
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Mr Mirziyoyev took power following the death of Islam Karimov, the strongman who had ruled Uzbekistan since it became independent from the Soviet Union in 1991.
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It is also only the second time since Malaysia became independent six decades ago that the post has gone to a member of the ethnic Chinese minority.
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Consequently, Kazakhstan's enduring revulsion against nuclear tests has led it to become a staunch advocate of denuclearization and opponent of proliferation since it became independent in 85033.
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Ingevity became independent from its former parent company, packaging giant WestRock, in May 2016, a deal that Wilson said came as a benefit to Ingevity's growth prospects.
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That began to change for me sometime around 18963, the year that 21896 European colonies became independent African countries, following Sudan in 224 and Ghana in 2350.
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Britain in 1965 detached the Chagos Islands from its colony of Mauritius, which became independent three years later while the sparsely populated Chagos remained overseas British territory.
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Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan all gave up the nuclear weapons that were stationed on their territory after the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 and they became independent nations.
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Tellingly, Texans celebrate 1836 as their founding year, when the state became independent from Mexico after an armed insurrection, not 1845, when Texas officially became an American state.
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Many online were touched by the images, pointing to the fact that not even floods could dampen the spirits of Indians 70 years after the country became Independent.
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It was the hundred-and-eighty-first anniversary of the day that Texas became independent of Mexico, and the beginning of the "high holy days" among Texas historians.
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The United States has a long history with the Philippines, a former colony that became independent in 1946 and signed a mutual defense treaty with Washington in 1951.
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Women here have long had the right to divorce and gain custody of their children, and polygamy was abolished the year after the country became independent in 1956.
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From 1922 onwards, most of Ireland became independent, and only the six counties of the north-east, which remained in the United Kingdom, sent members the House of Commons.
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That, after all, is the birthday of a much older fixture in the country's life: the president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, who has run it since it became independent in 1991.
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The grandson of the sixth Earl of Cawdor, Marrian grew up in Kenya, where his grandfather was a minister just after the former British colony became independent in 1963.
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When India became independent in 240, large dams promised to even out the vagaries of a monsoon climate that provides more than two-thirds of the country's annual rainfall.
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Karimov took over at the helm of the then ruling communist party in 1989 and hung on to power when Uzbekistan became independent of the Soviet Union in 1991.
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Eva Álvarez, whose family owns the bar, said she had needed to reassure her 12-year-old son that if Catalonia became independent, they would not have to leave.
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SINCE the small Gulf states became independent from Britain in the latter half of the 215th century, their ruling families have sought fresh methods to keep their subjects in check.
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The two countries share a long and porous border, and have a history of supporting armed groups on each others' territories after oil-rich South Sudan became independent in 2011.
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It was Machar's dismissal as vice-president and his rivalry with President Salva Kiir that triggered the civil war in 2013, two years after South Sudan became independent from Khartoum.
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Although many Rohingya were considered citizens when Myanmar, also known as Burma, became independent in 1948, the military junta that wrested power in 1962 began stripping them of their rights.
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Abortion has been illegal in Ireland since at least 1861, when a ban was imposed by British authorities, and remained illegal after Ireland became independent in the early 20th century.
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But as cars began to use more sophisticated electronic engineering, the automatic transmission eventually became independent from the shifter, freeing up designers to rethink how the insides of cars should appear.
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In Northern Ireland, which remained part of the United Kingdom after Ireland became independent nearly a century ago, the prospect of pulling out of the European Union has provoked fierce debate.
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It was a Nuer-Dinka power struggle that started the war in 2013, two years after South Sudan became independent from Sudan, and a good part of Bentiu was burned down.
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He was delivering on a pledge he had made years earlier to Eduardo Mondlane, the founder of the Mozambican Liberation Front, to help provide health services when the country became independent.
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For years, Mr. Abdul Mahdi served as a member of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, a large Shiite party tied to Iran, but he became independent last year.
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Among other things, Sudan agreed not to engage in arms deals with North Korea, and to reduce its interference in South Sudan, which after a long civil war became independent in 2011.
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The number of midwives in South Sudan has risen to more than 400 from an estimated eight when the country became independent in 2011, according to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).
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But he had a spectacular collapse after a vast corruption scandal at a state investment fund fueled widespread public anger, leading to his party's first loss since Malaysia became independent in 1963.
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Oil-producing South Sudan, which became independent in 2011, descended into civil war in December 2013 when a dispute between Kiir and his sacked deputy Riek Machar sparked fighting, often along ethnic lines.
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About a year after Botswana became independent, the De Beers company made a mining discovery on the eastern edge of the Kalahari Desert that gave the country the glittering hope it needed: diamonds.
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The name "Last Rhodesian" is apparently a reference to the former British colony in Africa that was ruled by a white minority until it became independent in 1980 and changed its name to Zimbabwe.
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Oil-producing South Sudan, which became independent in 2011, descended into civil war in December 2013 when a dispute between Kiir and Machar — who was vice president then — sparked fighting, often along ethnic lines.
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The two U.S. states that incarcerate the least are Vermont and Massachusetts, but if those states became independent nations, they would rank as the 11th and 12th greatest users of incarceration on the planet.
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Once handed over to Azerbaijan by Joseph Stalin, it remained autonomous until the dissolution of the Soviet Union and became independent in the exact same way as Azerbaijan when it seceded from the USSR.
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A new goods and services tax replaced a complicated web of national and state-level duties, creating a single market in India for the first time since the vast country became independent in 1947.
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The Ukraine trip is a fraught one for Mr. Pompeo, who arrived on Thursday night after a stop in London and plans to travel afterward to three more nations that became independent from Moscow.
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In 2011, southerners overwhelmingly voted to declare independence and South Sudan became independent that year though both countries remain at loggerheads over disputed territories and other issues while the south has slipped into civil war.
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The verdict said that one of the aims of the coup attempt was to prevent Montenegro, which became independent in 2006 after it split from Serbia, from joining NATO, which it did in June 2017.
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Oil-producing South Sudan, which became independent in 2011, descended into civil war in December 2013 when a dispute between President Salva Kiir and his sacked deputy Riek Machar ended with fighting, often along ethnic lines.
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Oil-producing South Sudan, which became independent in 2011, descended into civil war in December 2013 when a dispute between President Salva Kiir and his sacked deputy Riek Machar exploded into fighting, often along ethnic lines.
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Oil-producing South Sudan, which became independent in 2011, descended into civil war in December 2013 when a dispute between President Salva Kiir and his sacked deputy Riek Machar ended with fighting, often occurring along ethnic lines.
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The operation known as Project Sapphire helped Kazakhstan, a former Soviet republic that became independent in 1991, build trust with the international community and paved the way to the IAEA's decision to base its uranium bank there.
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When Nova Scotia was administered by Britain before Canada became independent in 1867, several thousand black people settled there after the American Revolution and some also were offered land following the War of 1812 in the United States.
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Macedonia, which became independent in 1991 as part of the breakup of the former Yugoslavia, has most recently been in the news for its harsh treatment of migrants passing through from Greece to reach central and western Europe.
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It has suffered repeated bouts of instability since it became independent from Portugal in 1974, including nine coups or attempted coups and a surge in cocaine trafficking from South America that has been linked to senior military officials.
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Chuuk's proximity to Guam, an American territory with air force and naval bases, and strategic location in the Pacific had raised the profile of the proposed vote amid expectations it would likely turn to China if became independent.
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SVOLT Energy Technology Co Ltd, which became independent in 2018, also said it is making "good progress" on developing a cobalt-free lithium-ion battery - a goal of battery producers aiming to eliminate the pricey and increasingly scarce mineral.
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Sudan had previously accused its southern neighbor of stoking unrest in the two regions, where rebels kept up a fight against Khartoum's rule even after most of the territory they fought for decades became independent South Sudan in 2011.
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Mahathir has shaped Malaysia like no other politician since the Southeast Asian nation became independent, with a 22-year stint as prime minister that started in 1981 and then a second term after his historic return two years ago.
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On its website, CMIG extols the Communist Party, explaining that it was "90 years ago, thanks to a group of advanced Chinese intellectuals who spread Marxism on Chinese soil with Prometheus-like courage, our nation became independent and prosperous".
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A fighter in the 230-21990 war to end French colonial rule, Bouteflika became independent Algeria's first foreign minister and one of the forces behind the Non-Aligned Movement that gave a global voice to Africa, Asia and Latin America.
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Along with People's Park in Chinatown (pictured), which has been praised by the Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas, it is among a handful of Brutalist buildings that were built in a surge of architectural confidence after the country became independent in 1965.
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It was the day India became independent from British rule, and Du Bois believed the event was of "greater significance" than even the establishment of democracy in Britain, the emancipation of slaves in the United States or the Russian Revolution.
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"It is certainly the first time that we have ever had a general budget surplus since we have used European Union methodology, but to my knowledge it is also the first such case since Croatia became independent (in 1991)," Maric said.
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They were part of an exodus from Kurdistan, fleeing a civil war between Kurdish factions and efforts by Saddam Hussein to retake a region of northern Iraq that became independent after he was defeated in the Gulf War that ended in 22020.
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Though modern Poland had been established as a multi-ethnic state — only two-thirds of its citizens were ethnic Poles at the time it became independent in 1918 — there was a major push in the 1930s to get Jews to leave the country.
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The Baltic nations of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, which became independent after the breakup of the Soviet Union, joined NATO in 2004 and, along with Poland, are at the front lines of what some critics have called a Cold War-style chill.
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John Blaxland, a professor at the Strategic and Defense Studies Center at the Australian National University, said the country had not seen a catastrophe on this scale, affecting so many people in so many different locations, since Australia became independent in 1901.
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In 1963, when Singapore became independent, Lee Kuan Yew embarked on a "greening" project, instating a still-celebrated national Tree Planting Day and enlisting the Gardens' staff to help with planning flower beds in public spaces—thereby converting a colonial mission into a nationalist one.
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Foreign dignitaries, including Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (who helped broker the deal with the African Union) and South Sudan's President Salva Kiir Mayardit, also attended the signing ceremony — symbolically important, as South Sudan became independent from Sudan in 2011 after years of civil war.
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Since then, though, he's come to harbor doubts over this approach: I discovered their work and introduced them to the art world, but since I left the facility and became independent, there's still the possibility that they're being forced somehow to draw or create art.
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Delegates crisscrossed the towering atrium of the Rixos Hotel in the remote Kazakh capital built 20 years ago on the orders of Nursultan Nazarbayev, the former Communist boss who has been the country's president since it became independent with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
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Malaysia's democracy is clearly flawed — the same coalition has ruled it since it became independent in 1957, and it has jailed opposition leaders on trumped-up charges — but it is not in the same league as countries like China and Russia, where freedom of speech is extremely circumscribed.
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" Luke Patey, a researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies who studies East Africa's oil industry, said of the turnout: "I think it's a combination of the real risk that exists ... and that the global oil price has been quite low compared to when South Sudan became independent.
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In 1962, as Kenyan independence loomed and political upheavals dimmed prospects for safaris in East Africa, he accepted a partnership in his old company, which became Ker, Downey and Selby, and in 1963 moved as its trailblazer to Bechuanaland, a British protectorate that became independent Botswana in 1966.
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The first sentencing came in October of 224, and last January the death sentence was upheld in three of four charges — for murder, rape and the mass killing of intellectuals during the Liberation War of 22014, when what was then East Pakistan broke away from Pakistan proper and became independent as Bengali-majority Bangladesh.
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The first sentencing came in October of 21971, and last January the death sentence was upheld in three of four charges — for murder, rape and the mass killing of intellectuals during the Liberation War of 1971, when what was then East Pakistan broke away from Pakistan proper and became independent as Bengali-majority Bangladesh.
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The Philippines became independent in 1946, but Puerto Rico and Guam have remained under the sovereignty of the US. In 20023, the Jones Act granted citizenship to Puerto Ricans (who then were drafted to World War I), restricted its ports to US ships only, and barred the territory from statehood, thus from participating in presidential elections or having congressional representatives.
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