According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the number of refugees worldwide increased by 50 percent between 1985 and 1989-from 10.1 million to 15.2 million. Almost a third of today's refugees are located in Africa. More than half of the African...

For the first time since Angola descended into civil war during the months preceding independence from Portuguese colonial rule in 1975, the political...

The sixteenth Franco-African summit, held June 19-21 at the French coastal resort of La Baule, was attended by 35 African delegations, 22 led by heads of state...

Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah, an architect of the African independence movement of the early 1960s, counseled in his writings that an oppressed people had to seize...

The unbanning of the African National Congress and other South African political organizations on February 2, 1990 opened a complex political process within...

An epoch of Soviet assistance to Africa is drawing to a close. Moscow now faces mounting economic difficulties at home and is in reduced strategic competition with the West. The traditional priorities that shaped Soviet foreign aid policy throughout most of the postwar era...

Part of a series of reports on the Gulf War of 1990-1991, and its aftermath. The Book version is available as Lessons of Modern War- Volume II: The Iran-Iraq War, a Westview book coauthored with Abraham R. Wagner.

Part of a series of reports on the Gulf War of 1990-1991, and its aftermath. The Book version is available as Lessons of Modern War- Volume II: The Iran-Iraq War, a Westview book coauthored with Abraham R. Wagner.

Part of a series of reports on the Gulf War of 1990-1991, and its aftermath. The Book version is available as Lessons of Modern War- Volume II: The Iran-Iraq War, a Westview book coauthored with Abraham R. Wagner.

Part of a series of reports on the Gulf War of 1990-1991, and its aftermath. The Book version is available as Lessons of Modern War- Volume II: The Iran-Iraq War, a Westview book coauthored with Abraham R. Wagner.