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| | FACT SHEET: United Republic of Tanzania at a Glance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) |
 | | The rebellion, which temporarily united a number of southern tribes and ended only after an estimated 120,000 Africans had died from fighting or starvation, is considered by most Tanzanians to have been one of the first stirrings of nationalism. |
 | | In December 1959, the United Kingdom agreed to the establishment of internal self-government following general elections to be held in August 1960. |
 | | In October 2002, burdened by vast numbers of refugees from the war-torn countries in the Great Lakes region and the Horn of Africa, the Tanzanian government gave all the 22,000 Rwandan refugees remaining in the country up to December 31, 2002, to leave its territory. |
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