African theatre of World War I

African Theatre
Part of World War I
German trenches in Garua, German colony of Cameroon
Date August 3, 1914 – November 23, 1918 (4 years, 3 months, 2 weeks and 6 days) Location Northern, eastern, western and south-western Africa Result Allied victory
Belligerents
Entente Powers:  British Empire  Australia Bechuanaland East Africa Egypt Gold Coast India Nigeria  Northern Rhodesia  Nyasaland South Africa  Southern Rhodesia Sudan Uganda France Algeria Chad French Congo Dahomey Guinea Ivory Coast Morocco Niger Senegal Sudan Tunisia Ubangi-Shari  Belgium  Belgian Congo  Portugal Angola Mozambique Italy Libya  Liberia (from 1917)	Central Powers:  Germany German East Africa Kamerun German South West Africa Togoland  Ottoman Empire Logistics support by: Ethiopian Empire (1915-16) Co-belligerents: Sultanate of Darfur Senussi rebels South African Republic Dervish State
Commanders and leaders
Reginald Wingate François Joseph Clozel Félix Fuchs Eugène Henry Giacomo De Martino Alves Roçadas Ferreira Gil Louis Botha Jan Smuts	Heinrich Schnee Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck Karl Ebermaier Hans-Georg von Döring Theodor Seitz Jafar al-Askari Ali Dinar † Ahmed Sharif as-Senussi Manie Maritz Sayyid Mohammed Abdullah Hassan

Entente Powers:

Central Powers:

 Ottoman Empire

Logistics support by:
Ethiopian Empire (1915-16)

Co-belligerents:
Sultanate of Darfur
Senussi rebels
South African Republic

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