Post-independence Africa plagued by corruption and economic collapseTribal divisions, not addressed post-colonialism, fueled ...

South Africa was to extend territory into Namibia, first by building a 227 kilometer rail line into the German territory of South West Africa. This was from Prieska to Nakop.

The 7.7cm Neuer Art 1896 model German Army field guns in Queen Street were used at the beginning of World War 1. Eight of these guns were used by the German forces in South West Africa.

It was in South West Africa – later Na- mibia – that German colonialism has left perhaps its darkest legacy. Adolf Lüderitz from Bremen eyed up a coastal area along the Atlantic littoral to ...

News Published: 15 June 1916 Geology of South-West Africa G. A. J. C. Nature 97, 329 (1916) Cite this article ...

Private Ken Ward-Harvey was lucky to survive his first encounter with the enemy at the Battle of El Alamein in Egypt in 1942.

As Gaza bleeds, the West’s silence turns to unease. With 55,000 killed, Israel faces rising global backlash, legal scrutiny, ...

Explosions could be heard in Tel Aviv on Friday night local time, as sirens rang out across Israel amid what the Israeli ...

From a village in newly independent Ghana to the forefront of the continent's democratic projectGROWING UP IN A NEW NATIONI was just old enough in 1957 to raise the flag of the newly independent Ghana ...

Israel said it hit more Iranian government targets Monday in Tehran, including the notorious Evin Prison, as other strikes targeted Iran’s underground enrichment site at Fordo for a second ...

Michael Scanlon writes of the Irish New York neighborhoods of old and how Irish immigrants have passed them on to immigrants ...

Turko-Mongol ruler Tamerlane destroys Baghdad, killing 20,000. 1540: Henry VIII annuls his six month marriage to his fourth wife ...