The result is a vulnerable, contradictory, and potentially dangerous area called British East Africa. In this flat land, this land of great mountains, of wild beasts, of desert and forest ...

Comprising nations such as Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, and Tanzania, the region has been a fulcrum for U.S. efforts to secure ...

British forces evacuated to British held Aden (now Yemen) across the Persian Gulf. Italian East Africa bordered both British-held Kenya and the Sudan, which was jointly controlled by Britain and ...