January 15 marks 50 years since the Alvor Agreement promised Angola’s independence from Portugal. Yet the new state was doomed to be a Cold War battleground, with Washington planners seeking to avenge ...

Since the end of the cold war, the vast majority of these peacekeepers have been deployed in Africa, many of them by African ...

Equatorial Guinea ranks as the least open country in Africa, allowing its citizens visa-free access to only three countries ...