He added that the United Nations and several countries had exerted enormous diplomatic pressure on Portugal as the "first and last colonial power in Africa." There was also increased military ...

The following year, Portuguese explorers returned from Africa with more gold dust and ... European ships had brought a million Africans to colonies and plantations in the Americas and force ...

At the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885, the territory of Africa was finally divided among the European powers. The UK, France and Portugal had the largest colonies in Africa. The process of mass ...

France has handed over control to the Senegalese government of two military bases in Senegal’s capital, Dakar that it has ...

As Mozambique nears 50 years of independence, its ruling party clings to power amid political turmoil, contested elections, ...

At the time, Bengal (comprising present-day Indian states of West Bengal, Bihar, Odisha, Assam and the country of Bangladesh) ...