Former Country Names

List the new names of these former Countries/Territories. (If current country is split into more than one country, you only have to name one.)

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Former Name	New Name
Abyssinia	Ethiopia
Southern Rhodesia	Zimbabwe
Northern Rhodesia	Zambia
Tanganyika/Zanzibar	Tanzania
Belgian Congo/Zaire	Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
German South West Africa	Namibia
Upper Volta	Burkina Faso
Tripolitania/Cyrenaica	Libya
Numidia	Algeria
French Sudan	Mali
French Equatorial Africa	Central African Republic (CAR) / Chad
German East Africa	Rwanda / Burundi / Tanzania
French Somaliland	Djibouti
Portuguese Guinea	Guinea Bissau
Basutoland	Lesotho
Nyasaland	Malawi
Rio de Oro / Sáhara Occidental	Western Sahara
Orange Free State/ British Bechuanaland, Cape Colony, Colony of the Batavian Republic	South Africa
Portuguese East Africa	Mozambique
Dahomey	Benin
French West Africa	Mauritania / The Gambia / Senegal / Niger / Mali / Guinea / Côte d'Ivoire / Burkina Faso / Benin
Gold Cost	Ghana
Grain Coast	Liberia

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