Italian East Africa
Italian East Africa
(
Italian
:
Africa Orientale Italiana
) was an
Italian
colony in
Africa
. It was conquered in the
1930s
during
Benito Mussolini
's reign in
Italy
and lost at the end of the
North African Campaign
of
World War II
. The
Second Italo-Abyssinian War
played a key role in the absorption of
Ethiopia
into Italian East Africa. It included conquered
Ethiopia
,
Italian Somaliland
and
Eritrea
. Occasionally
Libya
(at the time another Italian colony) was referred to as being part of Italian East Africa, but this was uncommon and perhaps misleading. During the Second World War, the Italian army recruited many thousands of native
Africans
from the colony to fight against the
British
in the
East African Campaign
. However due to poor training, incompetent leadership and inadequate supplies and arms, Italian native troops were usually defeated in the face of the enemy.
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