| African theatre of World War I | |||||||||
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| Part of the First World War | |||||||||
 German trenches in Garoua, German Cameroon | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
 Italy (1915–18) |
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| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
| 750,000 African civilians dead from famine and disease[2] | |||||||||
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.[e]
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- ^ Tucker & Roberts 2006, p. 43.
- ^ "War Losses (Africa)". 1914–1918 Online Encyclopedia. Retrieved 23 May 2016.
- ^ Skinner & Stacke 1922, p. 331.