Source: The Potential of Mozambique In 1987 I took up the challenge of getting the Port of Beira reopened. It closed in 1966 after the Unilateral Declaration of Independence of Rhodesia. The British ...

Ian Smith had passed the Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) from Britain and was a rebel state. Rhodesia had been named after Cecil John Rhodes, the most notorious of all British ...

In 1970, Rhodesia, a country of just over five million black people, was ruled by just under a quarter of a million whites. In 1965, Ian Smith had passed the Unilateral Declaration of Independence ...

I reflected on how much more we might have achieved in the Commonwealth had Margaret Thatcher carried over to South Africa and apartheid the commitment to ‘black-majority rule' that had made the ...

Garfield Todd (Prime Minister of Rhodesia between 1953-1958 ... of black political power in a country that had known such turmoil between Ian Smith’s UDI in November 1965 and Mugabe’s election win in ...

David E. Stein is an entrepreneur and activist in Boston. When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for people to resist the usurpation of their rights that threatens their liberty ...

Donald Trump advisers were reportedly alarmed recently after the president requested for the Declaration of Independence to be moved into the Oval Office. According to The Atlantic, the advisers ...

The United States Department of State has dropped wording stating that Washington does not support independence for Taiwan. The State Department website’s latest “fact sheet” about Taiwan, a ...

Taiwan expressed approval after the U.S. State Department removed a statement on its website that said it does not support the island’s independence. The phrase “we do not support Taiwan ...

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