There are 2,056 Cubans in Angola, including 1,058 men and 998 women, including 1,171 healthcare practitioners. Angolan Health Ministry's Regla Angulo said the meeting was attended by a ...

South African armed forces launched several offensive operations into Angola. Their objective was to push SWAPO units away from the border with South-West Africa (now Namibia), then under South ...

In 1970s and 1980s, South Africa was involved in a series of wars which are usually known as South African Border Wars. One ...

It is hard to recapture from this distance the extraordinary audacity of the Cuban Communist Party central committee's decision on November 16 1987 to reinforce the 25,000 troops already in Angola by ...

Cuba had been supporting the Movement for the Independence of Angola (M.P.L.A.) since the 1960s. The Marxist leader Agostinho Neto had close ties to Havana and was favored by the Cubans.

August: Top members of the Cuban general staff begin appearing in Angola, a mineral-rich Portuguese colony in South West Africa. In Cuba troops hold military training exercises. November 7 ...