Frontline States

[2] Their mission was complicated by the fact that the economies of nearly all the FLS countries were dependent on South Africa, and many of their citizens worked there.

[4] Nevertheless, the FLS supported and sheltered exiled political movements opposed to apartheid and white minority rule, not only from South Africa, but also from Namibia (and Rhodesia prior to 1980).

Thousands of South African youth traveled to these states to receive training in sabotage and guerrilla warfare.

[citation needed] American relations with the Frontline States reached their peak during the human rights push of the Carter administration.

[5] Under the Reagan administration's Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Chester Crocker, the Frontline States were engaged diplomatically to reach landmark peace accords between South Africa, Mozambique, Angola (Lusaka Protocol), and Namibia (New York Accords).

The Frontline States ( orange ), 1975.