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The attack, involving roughly 400 drones and 18 missiles, struck ahead of a major reconstruction conference in Rome, where ...
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 is not often that a geological memoir appears in such inspiring circumstances as that issued by the Mines Department of the Union of South Africa on ‘The Geology and Mineral Industry of South ...
Plans have been lodged with South Norfolk Council for a new memorial to honour Swardeston villagers who lost their lives in the Second World War.
Created by the Allies 10 years after World War II to help defend Western Europe, the German army was designed to fight as little as possible. Today, Berlin wants to make it 'fit for war,' but the ...
Namibia on Wednesday held its first national commemoration for the victims of mass killings by colonial-era German troops, in what is widely recognised as the first genocide of the 20th century ...
Control over South West Africa - along with what is now Cameroon, Togo and other colonial territories - was stripped from Germany by competing powers after World War One.
Namibia marks inaugural Genocide Remembrance Day with call for reparations Germany has acknowledged early 1900s genocide of Herero and Nama people, but reparations remain elusive.
Namibia was known from 1884 to 1915 as German South West Africa, or Deutsch-Südwestafrika in German – part of the German empire on the continent and which included Togoland in West Africa ...
The South African Indian Legion (SAIL) of Military Veterans, have encapsulated the roles and success of Indians in the military spanning from the Anglo-Zulu War to present, which is currently part ...
The slaughter of Ovaherero and Nama people in the then-German colonial South West Africa (now Namibia), from 1904 to 1908, earned limited international opprobrium, as did the Ottoman state's ...