They have amplified vulnerabilities and aligned African states with foreign interests more often than their own. True non-alignment today must move beyond slogans to substantive reform. Thank you for ...

The United Nations peacekeeping chief has warned that the conflict in Sudan is spilling across its southwest border into ...

David C. Engerman's book explores the lives of six South Asian economists who shaped global development economics.

In one of the Cold War's most overlooked air combat episodes, Cuban MiG-23s clashed with South African Mirage F1s in the ...

The recent welcoming of Afrikaner refugees is the latest chapter in a history of U.S. support for white South Africans.

During the Cold War, special operations forces conducted similar operations against the Soviet Union, bolstering resistance groups in Europe and undermining Soviet campaigns. Skills from the ...

Time to revisit US President Jimmy Carter’s work in Cold War southern Africa – from Apartheid South Africa to the yet-to-be-born Republic of Zimbabwe. Almost no one mentions what Carter, who has died, ...

During the apartheid era, the country stood as a frontline state in the Cold War, with the US and its allies supporting the apartheid regime under the pretext of containing communism.

The Soviet Union supported the ANC during the Cold War, and armed many groups on the continent – and, if a new Cold War is emerging, African countries seem poised to fall into old patterns.