Question: Have the military played a role in the country since independence?
About the article "Nigeria", section "Military".

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The Nigerian Military are charged with protecting The Federal Republic of Nigeria, promoting Nigeria's global security interests, and supporting peacekeeping efforts especially in West Africa.
The Nigerian Military consist of an army, a navy and an air force.
The military in Nigeria have played a major role in the country's history since independence.
Various juntas have seized control of the country and ruled it through most of its history.
Its last period of rule ended in 1999 following the sudden death of former dictator Sani Abacha in 1998, with his successor, Abdulsalam Abubakar, handing over power to the democratically elected government of Olusegun Obasanjo in 1999.
Taking advantage of its role as Africa's most populated country, Nigeria has repositioned its military as an African peacekeeping force.
Since 1995, the Nigerian military through ECOMOG mandates have been deployed as peacekeepers in Liberia (1997), Ivory Coast (1997–1999), Sierra Leone 1997–1999, and presently in Sudan's Darfur region under an African Union mandate.
The Niger Armed Forces () (FAN) comprises both the military and national police services of the West African nation of Niger, totaling around 12,000 active personnel and 5,000 reservists.
While under civilian political control since 1999, the military has played a major role in Nigerien government, ruling the nation for 21 years of the period from independence in 1960 to the founding of the Fifth Republic in 1999.
Military leaders have staged three successful coup d'états, and there have been several more attempted, as recently as 2002.
While never engaging in open warfare with foreign nations, the Nigerien Military has participated in international peacekeeping missions and fought two domestic insurgencies.
Since 2007 the armed forces have carried out a campaign against ethnic Tuareg based rebels in the north of the country.
The FAN has frequently come under international scrutiny for its human rights record. 
Australia and East Timor are near neighbors with close political and trade ties.
East Timor, one of the poorest countries in Asia, lies about 610 kilometres northwest of the Australian city of Darwin and Australia has played a prominent role in the young republic's history.
Australia has an embassy in Dili.
East Timor has an embassy in Canberra and a consulate general in Sydney.
Australia led the military force that helped stabilize the country after it gained independence from Indonesia in 1999 and has been a major source of aid since.
In recent years, relations between both countries have deteriorated as a result of the Australia-East Timor spying scandal. 
Purba Banglar Sarbahara Party (Bengali for 'Proletarian Party of East Bengal') is a communist party in Bangladesh.
The party played a role in the independence struggle of the country.
In the early 1970s it engaged in armed struggle supporting the new Bangladeshi state.
Since then its political fortunes have dwindled, having suffered from several waves of internal divisions.
The group remains active, and still carries out violent attacks against its opponents. 
Trade unions in Guinea were historically important - having played a pivotal role in the country's independence movement - and in recent years have again assumed a leading role.