The M23 has continued to gain ground in eastern DR Congo and last month seized the region's second-biggest city, Bukavu.

The ignominious defeat suffered by the British in the Anglo-Zulu War was a blot on an impressive ... and democratically elected president of South Africa was inaugurated. The Battle of Isandlwana ...

In 1899, Canada agreed to send volunteers to serve under British command in the Boer War. (Courtesy of the National Archives of Canada C-007986, Montreal soldiers of C Company South African ...

South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa, center, shares a light moment with European Union Council President Antonio Costa, left, and Ursula von der Leyen, the European Commission President ...