To protect Rhodesia against an imagined invasion, convoys of troops were ordered to dig in along the Zambesi River border with Zambia, causing President Kenneth Kaunda nervously to declare a state ...

Ian Smith, Rhodesia's last white prime minister whose attempts to resist black rule dragged the country now known as Zimbabwe into isolation and civil war, has died at age 88.

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- Ian Smith, the last white minority leader of Rhodesia, who vowed that blacks would not rule his country "in a thousand years," died Tuesday in a clinic outside Cape ...

Ian Smith, 88, the steely prime minister of Rhodesia ... In later years, Mugabe, who has taken the title of president, encouraged the often-violent expulsion of whites from their lands.

She was elected president of the Maryknoll Sisters and headed the Maryknoll, N.Y.-based order from 2009 until 2015. Lively and fun-loving, McLaughlin made lasting friendships in Africa.

Not in Rhodesia, however. In Zambia ... Tanzania’s President Julius Nyerere, who had broken off relations with Britain, demanded that the British use civilians instead of military personnel for ...

HARARE, Zimbabwe — Ian Smith — Rhodesia’s last white prime minister, whose attempts to resist black rule dragged the country now known as Zimbabwe into isolation and civil war — died Tuesday.

Kirsty Coventry made history as the first female and first African president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in March. The 41-year-old Zimbabwean, who succeeded former President Thomas ...

1964 - Independence: Northern Rhodesia is renamed Zambia, President Kaunda rules for next 27 years. Late 1960s-1970s - Key enterprises nationalised.