The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word UGANDA
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result UGANDA
- As told, look after united country
- Characteristic content of sugar in African country
- Sheep and bird conversing in the country
- Drug and alcohol supplies somewhere in East Africa
- Dung starts to annoy adventurers out in the country
- Country having unlimited sugar and bananas
- Not all snug and appreciative of the country
- A country‘s united by the dissemination of biased information? Not half
- Headless cockroach, say, with a place in Africa
- Doug and Angela, somewhat in a state …
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The straight part
We know that "African country" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case african country = uganda.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
Sadly, We don't have an explanation for this specific crossword clue yet.