Since the Cold War, competition between foreign powers for influence in Africa has spurred a great debate. With a focus on ...

After 1945, Africa became caught up in the confrontation between America and the Soviet Union, the so-called Cold War. Anti-Communism informed almost every aspect of the South African government's ...

A newly declassified document from the John F. Kennedy (JFK) files, released overnight by former U.S. President Donald Trump, ...

When one thinks of Cold War-era main battle tanks that remain in ... chances are you might not realize that South Africa also has its own homegrown MBT that is still going strong after all these ...

USAID started in the 1960s as a way to offset the spread of communism. Since then, it has had various other soft-power ...

In the Middle East and Africa the Cold War was waged by proxies of the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. with no direct military confrontation between the two superpowers. But in Asia, the U.S. was a direct ...

As the Russia-Ukraine war enters its third year, its consequences continue to shape global geopolitics, particularly in Africa. From economic disruptions to ...

As the Cold War settled into détente in the early 1970s ... After five centuries as a colony of Portugal, Angola in West Africa was due to receive its independence in November 1975.

THE US continued its cold war on South Africa as US Secretary of State Marco Rubio slammed Julius Malema for chanting "Kill ...

They promise the earth and never deliver, but sometimes the world’s leaders give us the sun, the moon and the stars ...