Country Name Changes - Africa

Name the modern country names based on the names they were previously known as. Source: Wikipedia

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Date	Former Name	Answer
1975	Dahomey	Benin
1966	Bechuanaland	Botswana
1984	Upper Volta	Burkina Faso
2013	Cape Verde*	Cabo Verde
1958, 1976, 1979	Ubangi-Shari	Central African Republic
1971, 1997	Leopoldville, Zaire	Democratic Republic of the Congo
1967, 1977	French Somaliland, Territory of the Afars and the Issa	Djibouti
1968	Spanish Guinea	Equatorial Guinea
2018	Swaziland	Eswatini
1941	Abyssinia	Ethiopia
1957	Gold Coast	Ghana
1979	Portuguese Guinea	Guinea-Bissau
1966	Basutoland	Lesotho
1964	Nyasaland	Malawi
1960	French Sudan	Mali
1990	Southwest Africa	Namibia
1964	Northern Rhodesia	Zambia
1965, 1975, 1980	Southen Rhodesia, Rhodesia	Zimbabwe