In one of the Cold War's most overlooked air combat episodes, Cuban MiG-23s clashed with South African Mirage F1s in the ...

And in this wilderness of dust, the tiny footprints of a child.“Himba,” said Alfredo Tchimbuembue, a ranger sweating along a remote trail in Iona National Park, one of war-weary Angola’s ...

Eight families of Mennonites have moved from Mexico to Angola, in southern Africa, raising fears among some Angolans that ...

Angola was torn apart by war. But this wasn’t just a local conflict. It was a Cold War showdown—with diamonds, oil, and lives ...

These are the children of the world’s forgotten war, a war that has killed perhaps 100,000 people in the last year and put another 3 million at risk of starvation, according to the UN.

Aceria de Angola is a company that is turning old weapons — rifles, tanks — into steel beams. It was founded by a baker, whose business was destroyed by the bloody civil war. But the spoils ...

November 9, 2007: The government is still dealing with the political after-effects of its long-running civil war with the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) and the National ...

Map courtesy of Global Forest Watch. ... It was extirpated from Kissama National Park during the Angolan Civil War (1975-2002), and only 200-400 are thought to remain elsewhere.

Angola's civil war left 1,100 active minefields. The attitude had been that clearing mines is man's work until a nonprofit stepped in. Now nearly 400 women deminers tread carefully — and ...

In the end, of course, neither in Angola nor any of the other colonies did the insurgents actually win a victory in the field. Rather, it was the ouster of the country’s long-term authoritarian regime ...

In 2013, Angola imported 10 boats, the first time any rowing equipment had been shipped into the country since before the civil war. The vice-president of the Angolan Nautical Federation told Al ...