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South Africa's Cold War-era Olifant Tank Is the Best in Africa
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’s history shows decades of good work on behalf of America’s global interests, although not all its projects succeeded
USAID started in the 1960s as a way to offset the spread of communism. Since then, it has had various other soft-power ...
Dismantling US Africa Command could create a damaging power ‘vacuum’
Reports that the Trump administration will shutter a US military unit that protects American interests on the continent ...
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African struggles for independence
Narrator: In the 1950s and 60s, many colonised countries that were part of the British Empire gained their independence. Ghana was one of the first African countries to do this. It had been part ...
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Kenyan foreign policy remains constant in a changing world - Mudavadi
Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi has said that the world is experiencing a shift in the existing post-Cold War global order as new alliances and rivalries emerge.
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Jazz, politics, continents collide in Oscar-nominated 'Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat'
Johan Grimonprez's film charts both the hopes and the tragedies of Africa's freedom movements in the shadow of the Cold War, ...