After 106 years, Black South African WWI troops honored with memorial. Story by Gerald Imray • 2mo. C APE TOWN, South Africa - The names are carved on poles of African hardwood that are set ...

Louisiana's Fort Polk renamed after African American WWI soldier . Sgt. William Henry Johnson was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor in 2015. By Nakylah Carter. June 13, 2023, 2:55 PM.

Togo in Africa saw the first battle between Allied and German forces in World War One. They fought for control of the Kamina wireless station.

South Africa's WW1 servicemen finally honoured at new memorial. 22 January 2025. Share Save. Mayeni Jones & Khanyisile Ngcobo. BBC News, Johannesburg & London. Share Save. Reuters.

In Africa, the U.S. launched a parallel campaign in the early 2000s, supporting and training African troops from Mali in the west to Somalia in the east and creating proxy forces that would fight ...

Hundreds of South African servicemen, mostly black, who died during World War One have been honoured with a new memorial in Cape Town after going unrecognised for more than a century. The 1,772 ...

African prisoners made sound recordings in German camps in WW1: this is what they had to say Anette Hoffmann, University of Cologne Mon, June 9, 2025 at 2:03 PM UTC ...

Abiy was once regarded as a dynamic reformer and highly sought after as a champion for African interests. Abiy and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa led the region’s advocacy for economic relief ...

After a closed-door meeting of the Nigerian Senate, the body’s president, Godswill Akpabio, advised ECOWAS “to strengthen their political and diplomatic options”.

In a Cape Town memorial opened Wednesday, African "iroko" hardwood posts bear the names and the date of death of 1,700 Black South African servicemen who died in non-combatant roles in WWI ...

African prisoners in German camps were studied by ethnographers, who recorded their voices. What they had to say is poignant and unexpected.