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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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

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 ...

The Angola civil war contributed to the country’s landmine crisis. We were in Cuando Cubango , one of the provinces with the most landmines, to assess the impact of drought on crops. Earlier that day, ...

An increasing number of women in Angola are working to get rid of the scourge of landmines left from the 27-year civil war, which are still claiming victims long after the fighting finished.