to grow Nkrumah used the frustration after the war and the growing Pan-African movement to build up support for the CPP Women helped support and spread the message of independence The British ...

Back in 1950, Liberia and Ethiopia were the only two African countries that were free from colonial rule. Today, nearly all African countries are independent and sovereign states. Some, like South ...

US President Donald Trump on Sunday asserted South Africa was "confiscating" land and "treating certain classes of people ...

Somaliland is part of Somalia and the larger Horn of Africa region ... broke ties with Somalia’s government in Mogadishu after declaring independence in 1991, and the region has sought ...

Ramaphosa re-elected as South African leader after historic coalition deal South ... unilaterally declared independence in 1991 and has been notably more stable than the rest of the country ...

Even after Cameroon gained independence in 1960 ... France is now reconfiguring its military presence in Africa after being driven out of three countries in the Sahel governed by juntas hostile ...

In the 1950s and 60s, her mother, the late Andrée Blouin, threw herself into the fight for a free Africa, mobilising ... first prime minister and a revered independence hero.