JOHANNESBURG -- Dozens of South African chefs, community cooks, caterers, and culinary students joined forces Friday in Johannesburg to make 67,000 liters (17,700 gallons) of soup to feed the hungry, ...

Its tumult ended more than 80 years ago, however, the Second World War must always be remembered, as should the African soldiers whose contribution and sacrifice laid the groundwork for an ...

South Africa has sent additional troops and military equipment to Democratic Republic of Congo in recent days, political and diplomatic sources said, after 14 of its soldiers were killed in ...

African leaders on Thursday announced the withdrawal of thousands of troops from South Africa, Tanzania and Malawi who were sent to quell insurgencies in mineral-rich eastern Congo, where M23 ...

The South African armed forces say they have begun withdrawing their peacekeeping troops from rebel-controlled eastern Congo.

Macron Honors African Soldiers Who Helped Liberate France in World War II Two months after D-Day, an Allied force dominated by soldiers conscripted from French colonies swept into southern France.

By contrast, in World War II, more than 10,000 people served and died in East African forces, but all were commemorated by name, either listed on a collective memorial or with a headstone.

The Southern African Development Community intervention force in the mission in the DRC is outgunned and outmanned.

A new war memorial in Cape Town, South Africa, remembers the close to 2,000 casualties who served in Africa during World War 1, between 1914-1918 and who have no known graves and because they were ...

African soldiers from East and West Africa were fighting alongside others from the Union of South Africa, Britain, India, Australia and New Zealand.

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The South African armed forces said Thursday they had begun withdrawing their peacekeeping troops from rebel-controlled eastern Congo.