Before 1980, especially during the 12-year prime ministership of Balthazar Johannes Vorster, the South African government's...

Liberia is one of Africa's two oldest independent states, yet it is regarded by many of its 1.7 million inhabitants as a recently...

When Robert Mugabe took office as independent Zimbabwe's first prime minister in April 1980, he faced a challenge of staggering...

Sometimes in Africa a nation's noteworthiness adds up to less than the sum of its parts. Nigeria's latest exercise in democracy is a case in point.

To those who follow developments in Chad, there is a strong sense of déjà vu about the...

Diplomatic historians are likely to accord Under Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger's June 23 address in San Francisco an...

In less than two years, the Resistência Nacional Moçambicana (MNR) has spread itself across at least a third of the southeast African nation...

As Iran's Ghassem Salehkhou settled himself into a first-class jetliner seat in Tehran for the trip to Washington last October, he...

The following article is adapted from Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Lyman's address to the opening session of a conference on "Africa's Economic...

Namibia, a land twice the size of California, is seven eighths desert and semi-desert, with only its  northern...

What are the Soviets up to in southern Africa, and what should be done about it? South Africa justifies its massive military buildup of recent years, as well...

Africa's potentially most important regional development organization is the Southern African Development Coordination Conference (SADCC-customarily pronounced...