This enabled it to send reports of Allied naval movements around the coast of Africa. The British feared ... carved up between Britain and France. WW1: How did an artist help Britain fight the ...

375 Webley and Scott hunting rifle and fired the shot that killed a German soldier, Herr Friedrich Broecker, who became the first causality of WWI in East Africa. In the meantime, some of the ...

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 ...

During the 19th century the British fought minor wars in Africa to secure British control of colonial territories. These included the: Ashanti Wars in West Africa. Matabele Wars in South Africa.

For example, Scott Straus, "Wars do End! Changing Patterns of Political Violence in sub-Saharan Africa," African Affairs, 111:443 (2012): 179–201; David T. Burbach and Christopher J. Fettweis, "The ...

The 1,772 men worked in dangerous and gruelling non-combatant roles in East Africa but until now, they had no known grave or commemoration. Individually engraved timber posts now bear each ...