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    West African States Monitoring Group (ECOMOG) was a West African multilateral armed force established by the Economic Community of West African States...
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  • Libyans to leave Chad in November 1981; they were replaced by an Inter-African Force (IAF). The IAF showed itself unwilling to confront Habré's militia...
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    Battle of Kolwezi (category May 1978 events in Africa)
    French and Belgian paratroops, until they were relieved by an Inter-African Force (Force Interafricaine) led by 1,500 soldiers from Morocco and comprising...
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    completed by 31 December. The Libyans were to be replaced by an OAU Inter-African Force (IAF). Gaddafi complied, and by 16 November all Libyan forces had...
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    to save Zaire's regime. After Shaba II, Morocco was part of the Inter-African Force deployed on the Zaire border, contributing about 1,500 troops. The...
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  • Tirailleurs sénégalais. In 1978, Senegal dispatched a battalion to the Inter-African Force in Zaire, in the aftermath of the Shaba II fighting. The Senegalese...
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    The South African Defence Force (SADF) (Afrikaans: Suid-Afrikaanse Weermag) comprised the armed forces of South Africa from 1957 until 1994. Shortly before...
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    to save Zaire's regime. After Shaba II, Morocco was part of the Inter-African Force deployed on the Zaire border, contributing about 1,500 troops. The...
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  • insurgents by the Nigerian Air Force. East African Campaign Lulat, Y. G. M. (1992). United States Relations with South Africa: A Critical Overview from the...
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    The Central African Republic Air Force (French: Force Aérienne Centrafricaine) is the aerial warfare branch of the Central African Republic Armed Forces...
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    South African Air Force (SAAF) is the air warfare branch of South African National Defence Force, with its headquarters in Pretoria. The South African Air...
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  • pull-out of all foreign troops and the arrival of a peace-keeping inter-African force guided by Nigeria. A Provvisional State Council was formed to governed...
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  • Wayback Machine By John Irish and Elizabeth Pineau. 17 May 2014 2:19 PM. African Troops Free Dozens of Boko Haram Victims, Voice of America, Apr 10, 2021...
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    the subsequent expansion of the West African forest. West African hunter-gatherers occupied western Central Africa (e.g., Shum Laka) earlier than 32,000...
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  • History of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (category History of Central Africa)
    aid of French and Belgian paratroopers plus Moroccan troops. An Inter-African Force remained in the region for some time afterwards. Zaire remained a...
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  • Inter-Con is one of the largest private security companies in the world with over 15,000 employees across North America, South America and Africa. The...
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  • for the Americas of 1988, in force since 1999. The African Union (AU) is a supranational union consisting of 55 African countries. Established in 2001...
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    Africa); South Africa Government Gazette No 6085 dated 25 July 1958. Burgers, A.P. (2008). The South African flag book: the history of South African flags...
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  • were first founded in Africa during antiquity. Ancient Greeks and Romans established colonies on the African continent in North Africa, similar to how they...
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  • The Central African Armed Forces (French: Forces armées centrafricaines; FACA) are the armed forces of the Central African Republic and have been barely...
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    Central Africa with willing and capable African partners Build peacekeeping, humanitarian assistance and disaster response capacity of African partners...
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  • 1981 in Libya (category 1981 in Africa)
    completed by 16 November. The Libyans were to be replaced by an OAU Inter-African Force (IAF). Launch of the second Five-Year Economic and Social Transformation...
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  • Action Task Force of Latin America (GAFILAT), formerly The Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering in South America (GAFISUD) Inter-Governmental...
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    basic freedoms in the African continent. It emerged under the aegis of the Organisation of African Unity (since replaced by the African Union) which, at its...
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    The King's African Rifles (KAR) was a British Colonial Auxiliary Forces regiment raised from Britain's East African colonies in 1902. It primarily carried...
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    The African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights, also known simply as the African Court, is an international court established by member states of the African...
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    Independent African States.” It was later disbanded on 9 July 2002 by its last chairman, South African President Thabo Mbeki, and replaced by the African Union...
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    peacekeeping force – the International Support Mission to the Central African Republic (MISCA) – was authorized in December 2013. This African Union force of 6...
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  • Général) commands the armed forces, consisting of a joint staff (État-Major inter-armes); a training staff (État-Major de la Formation), and a logistics staff...
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    Air Force (Weidenfeld, 2016) ISBN 978-0-29787-105-7 Philpott, Ian, ed. Royal Air Force History: Royal Air Force – an Encyclopaedia of the Inter-War Years...
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