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

Oleg Gordievsky, a Soviet KGB officer who helped change the course of the Cold War by covertly passing secrets to the UK, has ...

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

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

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 ...

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 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.

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 ...