"The first people who need peace are we, the soldiers especially myself. I have 38 years in military uniform," Riak told the gathering of the ex-child soldiers. In June, South Sudan's warring parties signed a Permanent Ceasefire Agreement in Khartoum, since then the parties have engaged in...
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She took to wearing a sort of uniform—a plain white dress, a wide brimmed red hat and a red necklace. Whether this was a deliberate choice to allow sailors and servicemen to see her from far away as she sang them off, or was simply a wise choice to stay comfortable in hot African ...
Major General James Koang Chol, said the alleged JEM fighters “were in military uniform and participated in active combat against our forces… We would not have killed innocent Darfur civilians. We don’t see them as our enemies” (Sudan Tribune, April ...
U.S. Army soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division escort African American students to Central High School in September 1957 in this image. You may also like: Can you answer these real 'Jeopardy!' questions about politics? 1958: Boeing interior Keystone // Getty Images 1958: Boeing interior...
Nearly 20 years have passed since the SADF withdrew from Angola and the African liberation movements suspended the armed struggle against apartheid. When the military conflict ended and national service was phased out, many former soldiers could not understand why they had been asked to sacrifice so...
U.S. Army soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division escort African American students to Central High School in September 1957 in this image. You may also like: Can you answer these real 'Jeopardy!' questions about politics? 1958: Boeing interior Keystone // Getty Images 1958: Boeing interior...
settlers preferred a natural life far from civilization and the atrocities of the Wars of Religion. The garrison lacked supplies, however, and the soldiers (as in the France Antarctique) soon ran away. The French returned two years later but settled in present-day Florida rather than South ...
Soldiers, sailors, and airmen must always think, plan, and practice for the unknown. No matter how realistic the conduct of exercises and training, it is impossible to simulate combat. Wars invariably expose deficiencies in peacetime planning. Before World War I, most soldiers planned and practice...
When the schools reopened on 26 September no student in the Vaal area was seen in the school yards, nor seen wearing a school uniform. What was the cause of their staying away, whereas the strikes were simmering down? …The answer from one …” It will be too difficult for us to go ...