African theatre of World War I
The African theatre of the First World War comprises campaigns in North Africa instigated by the German and Ottoman empires, local rebellions against European colonial rule and Allied campaigns against the German colonies of Kamerun, Togoland, German South West Africa, and German East Africa. The campaigns were fought by German Schutztruppe, local resistance movements and forces of the British Empire, France, Italy, Belgium, and Portugal.
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German trenches in Garoua, German Cameroon | |||||||||
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United Kingdom
Italy (1915–18) |
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| 750,000 African civilians dead from famine and disease | |||||||||
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