By 1914, European powers controlled 90% of Africa, with only Abyssinia (now Ethiopia) and Liberia remaining independent. A French map of Africa, c. 1911 (PD). By the time World War I broke out ...

Kathleen Bomani, World War I in Africa, Special to CNN A hundred years ago on this day, on August 8th, 1914, the British HMS Asteria and Pegasus protected cruisers bombed Dar-es-Salaam ...

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 ...

One hundred years ago, she was the fearsome German warship that ruled the waters of Lake Tanganyika; today the MV Liemba serves as the world's oldest passenger ferry. The Goetzen, as she was known ...

May to visit Africa for first time as PM 'Lost' WW1 Mendi bell handed to museum The sinking of the SS Mendi A note in the bag read: "If I handed it in myself it might not go to the rightful place.

Kathleen Bomani, World War I in Africa, Special to CNN A hundred years ago on this day, on August 8th, 1914, the British HMS Asteria and Pegasus protected cruisers bombed Dar-es-Salaam ...