• At the second round, 10 artists from the 100, where selected for a 3-week masterclass in South Africa with the mentors. (wikipedia.org)
  • African Parks is a non-governmental organization (NGO) focused on conservation, established in 2000 and headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa . (wikipedia.org)
  • The highlights this week: BRICS leaders meet in South Africa , Nigeria 's government freezes fuel price hikes, and Zimbabwe holds another questionable election. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • Students at AIMS in South Africa use time on the beach to reflect on and discuss ideas. (nature.com)
  • He won a place in a PhD programme at Stellenbosch University in South Africa, and he hopes to teach mathematics in his home country, Uganda, or elsewhere in Africa. (nature.com)
  • Turok's team is proud to have produced statisticians for the Zambian Energy Regulation Board, systems engineers for Namibian IT consulting firms, epidemiology researchers in South Africa and lecturers at multiple African universities who in turn educate hundreds of students each year. (nature.com)
  • In South Africa, the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership enables individuals and organisations to respond to critical economic, societal and environmental challenges and opportunities, running executive education programmes for sustainability managers and senior executives. (cam.ac.uk)
  • Based on the experience in South Africa, the Biden administration's top medical adviser says "this thing will peak after a period of a few weeks and turn around. (reason.com)
  • Does Classical Liberalism Have a Chance in South Africa? (reason.com)
  • Zambia sees Zimbabwe's economic missteps as South Africa looks to repeat them. (reason.com)
  • Herman Mashaba is something new in South Africa. (reason.com)
  • Why Does South Africa Need Armed Forces? (reason.com)
  • I first went to South Africa as a teenager. (telegraph.co.uk)
  • There are so many facets to the beauty of South Africa, from driving up The Garden Route and the amazing experience of the game reserves to the natural beauty of the Drakensberg mountains and other wonders of nature, such as God's Window in Mpumalanga, so called for its panoramic view of the Lowveld with the Kruger National Park and Mozambique in the distance. (telegraph.co.uk)
  • The extreme natural beauty of South Africa is so breathtaking. (telegraph.co.uk)
  • There is a culinary explosion in South Africa at the moment with an amazing new energy. (telegraph.co.uk)
  • They have so much passion and drive and now South Africa is a great location for a culinary holiday. (telegraph.co.uk)
  • Luke Dale-Roberts and Margot Janse are perfect examples of the energy and drive currently being exhibited by chefs in South Africa and it would be great to see more of the country's restaurants on that list. (telegraph.co.uk)
  • Companies such as the United African Company and United Trading Company in West Africa, the Imperial British East Africa Company, and the British South Africa Company were formed by businesspersons who were interested only in exploiting and plundering the rich natural resources of the territories of Africa that they were allowed to govern. (encyclopedia.com)
  • A mountain on a molehill: Is the illicit trade in cigarettes undermining tobacco control policy in South Africa? (who.int)
  • Case studies in illicit tobacco trade: South Africa. (who.int)
  • Times: As the pandemic took hold, hundreds of Westerners fled to east Africa. (nzherald.co.nz)
  • The Imperial British East Africa Company, founded in 1888, colonized Kenya for Britain, ruling there until 1893. (encyclopedia.com)
  • When #UgandaDecides and when it truly does so, then East Africa Community will be ready for an economic bloc. (goodreads.com)
  • BASF East Africa Ltd, the regional sales hub for the East African market, was established in Kenya in 2011 and is responsible for 15 countries. (basf.com)
  • Many motorists in East Africa face the challenge of engine damage as a result of vehicle overheating. (basf.com)
  • Newcastle University and Makerere University in Uganda are working with visual arts organisations in East Africa and the UK. (ncl.ac.uk)
  • African Parks manages 22 protected areas in 12 countries as of May 2023, and employs more than 1,100 rangers. (wikipedia.org)
  • From L to R) South African Minister of Trade and Industry Ebrahim Patel, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, and Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi listen as Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers his remarks virtually during the 2023 BRICS Summit at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg on Aug. 22. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • Over 500 Scholars from the African continent will be enrolled in the programme between 2023 and 2030 to undertake a wide range of Masters' courses. (cam.ac.uk)
  • In 2023 the University undertook a mapping of research ties with sub-Saharan Africa. (cam.ac.uk)
  • The risk of infection is highest in the rainforests of West and Central Africa and during the rainy season, when the deerfly (or mango fly or mangrove fly, as they are commonly known) are most prevalent. (medscape.com)
  • The Roman Africans or African Romans (Latin: Afri) were the ancient populations of Roman North Africa that had a Romanized culture, some of whom spoke their own variety of Latin as a result. (wikipedia.org)
  • They existed from the Roman conquest until their language gradually faded out after the Arab conquest of North Africa in the Early Middle Ages (approximately the 8th century AD). (wikipedia.org)
  • the Romans did not require a large military presence in North Africa since it was not a target for external attacks or rebellions. (wikipedia.org)
  • When the need arose, the relative proximity of the region to Italia made it possible to dispatch armies from Italia to North Africa very easily. (wikipedia.org)
  • By the second century AD, the Fossa Regia province of North Africa had a population three-fourths Italic, was fully Latinized and embraced the Hellenic Religion. (wikipedia.org)
  • This rapid increase contrasts starkly with the Middle East and North Africa, where increases in the size of this cohort have steadied, and even with East Asia, where numbers are dominated by China and the size of this cohort is expected to fall from 350 million in 2010 to 225 million by 2050 (World Bank 2014). (worldbank.org)
  • Much of today's dust research is focused on North Africa as it is Earth's largest and most persistent source of dust. (eurekalert.org)
  • In 2006, IUCN's administrative reorganization process to reconfigure the Regional Offices in Africa and West Asia led to the merger of BRAC and BRAO into a single program in 2008: PACO (Central and West Africa Program). (iucn.org)
  • Savanna elephants are larger animals that roam the plains of sub-Saharan Africa, while forest elephants are smaller animals that live in the forests of Central and West Africa. (nationalgeographic.com)
  • African elephants range throughout the savannas of sub-Saharan Africa and the rainforests of Central and West Africa. (nationalgeographic.com)
  • In the years since, poaching has continued to threaten both species: Savanna elephants declined by 30 percent between 2007 and 2014, while forest elephants declined by 64 percent from 2002 to 2011 as poaching worsened in Central and West Africa. (nationalgeographic.com)
  • The European External Action Service (EEAS) and the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC) have organised an EU-UNODC Strategic Dialogue on Africa on 2 December 2021. (unodc.org)
  • In 2021, approximately 800 combined cases were reported to the WHO, with over 90% caused by T. b. gambiense (see WHO: Human African trypanosomiasis ). (msdmanuals.com)
  • By 2020, there are an estimated 500,000 Africans living in China, with the majority residing in Guangzhou. (wikipedia.org)
  • On 30 July 2020, Mr Eazi launched African Music Fund in partnership with emPawa Africa, to finance established and up-and-coming creatives of Africa. (wikipedia.org)
  • African Parks employs more than 1,100 rangers, as of 2020. (wikipedia.org)
  • The countries of eastern and southern Africa host a vast variety and abundance of the world's biological and natural resources, including seven of the world's biodiversity hotspots. (iucn.org)
  • Recognizing the interdependency of the three pillars of sustainable development - social, economic and environmental, IUCN's work in Eastern and Southern Africa underscores the fact that sustainable economic development depends on sound environmental management in line with IUCN's Global Programme goals. (iucn.org)
  • UNODC has a large team across the African continent. (unodc.org)
  • Africa Talent aims to create jobs on the African continent and support economic and skills development by exposing talent to global work opportunities through the Deloitte Network. (deloitte.com)
  • Africa Talent aims to tap into Africa's youthful and growing population who are looking for global exposure without having to leave the continent. (deloitte.com)
  • The aim of Africa talent is to retain talent within the African continent, serving clients from the comfort of their own home while gaining international experience and addressing pressing client problems of our time. (deloitte.com)
  • ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) - If you listen to the African leaders addressing the U.N. General Assembly this year, the message is emphatic and unanimous: The continent is done being a victim of a post-World War II order. (ap.org)
  • Despite recent disparaging Western commentary on high African birth rates, fertility rates on the continent are normal when viewed in. (catholicnewsagency.com)
  • They are slightly larger than their Asian cousins and can be identified by their larger ears that look somewhat like the continent of Africa. (nationalgeographic.com)
  • The online event, co-chaired by EEAS Managing Director for Africa, Rita Laranjinha, and UNODC Director for Operations, Miwa Kato, gathered EU and UNODC representatives from Headquarters and across the African continent. (unodc.org)
  • The UNODC Vision was developed with and brought together African countries, donors including the EU, civil society organizations and other stakeholders to spark renewed momentum to address drugs, crime, corruption and terrorism on the continent. (unodc.org)
  • UNODC and the EU work closely together across all UNODC's mandate areas and are long-standing partners for cooperation on the African continent. (unodc.org)
  • The Africa University Fund is equipping the next generation of Africans to lead and transform a beloved continent. (umc.org)
  • The desire of the university's founders was to nurture an institution that would be deeply rooted in Africa-drawing its agenda and priorities from the challenges of African communities and combining the social wisdom and indigenous know-how of African people with new knowledge to aid development and improve quality of life on the continent. (umc.org)
  • Together we have the opportunity to impact the continent of Africa by equipping her leaders. (umc.org)
  • But while the narrative of "Africa rising" seems to have dominated the news, violence and conflict continue to affect many countries on the continent. (worldbank.org)
  • Among the general public and the researchers, Africa has been described as a continent in permanent poverty with weak economic growth. (lu.se)
  • Economic historians have long opposed the perception of Africa as a historically speaking economically stagnant continent. (lu.se)
  • Second, Africa is undergoing a slow transformation from a sparsely populated continent to one with a relatively high population growth. (lu.se)
  • Nevertheless, Africa is the continent most vulnerable to the effects of climate change. (lu.se)
  • Response to the 2014-2015 Ebola outbreak in West Africa overwhelmed the healthcare systems of Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, reducing access to health services for diagnosis and treatment for the major diseases that are endemic to the region: malaria, HIV/AIDS, and tuberculosis. (cdc.gov)
  • The 2014-2015 Ebola outbreak in West Africa debilitated the healthcare systems of affected countries, hampering diagnosis and treatment for endemic diseases such as malaria, HIV/AIDS, and tuberculosis (TB) ( 1 , 2 ). (cdc.gov)
  • Guangzhou officials released official population figures for residents in 2014 due to popular fears of an Ebola outbreak in the city by way of the African community. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Ebola outbreak in West Africa also served as a strong reminder of the vulnerability of some countries when faced with a shock of this nature. (worldbank.org)
  • Making the decision to volunteer in an Ebola Treatment Unit (ETU) in West Africa shows a lot of courage and takes support from friends, loved ones, and other healthcare workers. (cdc.gov)
  • emPawaa Africa was founded in November 2018 and began operation in 2019 as a talent incubation initiative to nurture and support up-and-coming artists in Africa. (wikipedia.org)
  • Popular You tuber and Indie filmmaker Korty EO used to work for at emPawa Africa before quitting to start her YouTube channel In 2019, YouTube partnered with emPawa, which will provide support to 10 emerging Nigerian artists, build their careers and increase their fan base. (wikipedia.org)
  • Bheki Ntshalitshali, General Secretary of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) shares his views on this challenge during the Symposium on the Future of Work organised in Geneva from 7 to 8 October 2019. (ilo.org)
  • Across the 24 countries - From the Horn of Africa to the Cape and including the Western Indian Ocean Islands, the region contains several centres of endemism where species of birds, mammals and plans reside nowhere else in the world. (iucn.org)
  • A prominent South African cardinal said Saturday that the 2018 Synod of Bishops on young people, the faith, and vocational. (catholicnewsagency.com)
  • From 2014, the African population significantly declined, dropping to 10,344 residents by February 2017. (wikipedia.org)
  • Prince Harry was appointed African Parks' president in late 2017. (wikipedia.org)
  • [25] Prince Harry , who previously assisted with African Parks' 2016-2017 elephant translocation project in Malawi, [5] was named president in December 2017. (wikipedia.org)
  • In 2016, Kamala Harris became the first African American to be elected a U.S. senator from California . (wikipedia.org)
  • A September 2016 CNN article on the community claimed that upwards to thousands of African residents had left the city in the previous 18 months. (wikipedia.org)
  • The aim of AIMS, which was started in 2002 by cosmologist Neil Turok, is to recruit the brightest students from across Africa and match them up with a faculty of top-tier mathematicians, computer scientists and physicists from around the world for a one-year postgraduate diploma in maths. (nature.com)
  • Since 2002, a total of 560 technical cooperation programmes and projects have been approved for the African region, with a total budget of US$545.2 million. (ilo.org)
  • The Kentucky Encyclopedia (1992), The Encyclopedia of Louisville (2002), and the forthcoming Northern Kentucky Encyclopedia have entries on African Americans, but these volumes were not compiled to focus solely on the many topics and issues relative to black life in the bluegrass state. (uky.edu)
  • Cambridge-Africa , founded in 2008, is a University programme that supports African researchers and promotes mutually beneficial collaborations and equitable partnerships between African institutions and Cambridge. (cam.ac.uk)
  • In addition, as a part of the Cambridge-Africa Programme, the University actively partners with African institutions to share skills and create new knowledge. (cam.ac.uk)
  • The African Research Universities Alliance ( ARUA ) and N8 , the eight most research-intensive Universities in the North of England, including Newcastle, have implemented a three-year programme. (ncl.ac.uk)
  • They manage the Cambridge-Africa Alborada Research Fund , which provides catalyst funding for collaborations and supports training activities between researchers in Africa and Cambridge. (cam.ac.uk)
  • Eventually the emerging south-south relations between Africa, Asia and Latin America could open up for new economic collaborations. (lu.se)
  • From Algeria to Zimbabwe and countries in between, a weekly roundup of essential news and analysis from Africa. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • The long-ruling African National Congress is on its way to losing power, but could go with the "Zimbabwe option. (reason.com)
  • Students study in one of the modern science labs at United Methodist-related Africa University in Mutare, Zimbabwe. (umc.org)
  • first through several national offices in West Africa, then a Regional Office for Central Africa (BRAC) in 1995, and a Regional Office for West Africa (BRAO) in 1997. (iucn.org)
  • If you look at the distribution of growth rates across Africa between 1995 and 2013, there are a few countries with negative [growth] rates, including Sudan, South Sudan and the Central African Republic - and, not surprisingly, these are all countries which have experienced conflict in recent years," Ferreira adds. (worldbank.org)
  • In 1995, a total of 2192 polio cases were reported from the 46 countries in the African Region of WHO. (cdc.gov)
  • Turok argues that a generation of mathematically trained graduates will empower Africa by strengthening the continent's research base and by focusing on fields that are key to industry and policy, ranging from mathematical modelling to computing, censuses and financial management. (nature.com)
  • But on hearing rumors of their deaths, hundreds of Africans, mostly Nigerian, surrounded a local police station. (wikipedia.org)
  • They are the latest cholera deaths in Africa after at least 12 nations record outbreaks. (nzherald.co.nz)
  • The organization manages national parks and protected areas throughout Africa, in collaboration with governments and surrounding communities. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Johannesburg-based nonprofit conservation organization African Parks manages national parks and protected areas throughout Africa, in collaboration with governments and surrounding communities. (wikipedia.org)
  • This work was done in collaboration between Cambridge-Africa , Cambridge Global Challenges and the Strategic Partnerships Office . (cam.ac.uk)
  • Additionally, the Centre of African Studies (established in 1965) acts as a hub for graduate- and faculty-level interdisciplinary research. (cam.ac.uk)
  • At least 300 awards have been made, to enable Cambridge researchers to engage with African colleagues from 33 African countries. (cam.ac.uk)
  • A first of its kind, The Kentucky African American Encyclopedia will serve as a major reference for students, teachers, researchers, and anyone interested in expanding their knowledge of Kentucky and the South. (uky.edu)
  • The researchers also discuss the discovery in the 1970s and 1980s of the link between dust transport and African climate following an increase in dust transport to the Caribbean due to the onset of severe drought in the Sahel. (eurekalert.org)
  • The meeting took place in the context of the annual meeting of Senior Officials and the launch of UNODC's Strategic Vision for Africa 2030 earlier this year. (unodc.org)
  • Although great strides have been made towards poverty reduction in Africa, the region hosts half of the world's extreme poor. (worldbank.org)
  • Latest estimates suggest that the share of the African population in extreme poverty declined from 57 percent in 1990 to 41 percent in 2013 (Beegle et al. (worldbank.org)
  • Poverty reduction in Africa also lags other regions: East Asia and South Asia started out with similar poverty rates in the 1990s, but their poverty rates are much lower today at 4 percent and 15 percent respectively (Beegle et al. (worldbank.org)
  • Ending global poverty therefore requires urgent action in Africa and a social inclusion lens will be indispensable towards this: It takes poverty analysis beyond identifying correlates to uncovering its underlying causes, asking questions such as why certain groups are overrepresented among the poor and why some people lack access to education, health or other services. (worldbank.org)
  • Teaching at Africa University emphasizes the practical application of knowledge to alleviate poverty, build peace and stability and drive development. (umc.org)
  • Africa continues to grapple with enormous challenges such as widespread poverty, the need for education and healthcare, underdeveloped infrastructure, low-producing agriculture, uncontrolled urbanisation and corruption. (lu.se)
  • Africa Talent is a Deloitte division that recruits both top talent with experience and young graduates who are looking for experience. (deloitte.com)
  • Africa Talent is aimed at a broad range of professionals, including those with consulting or advisory experience, as well as graduates. (deloitte.com)
  • This is why it's so crucial that Africa's greatest needs-sustainable agriculture, disease prevention, ethical leadership and governance, and more-continue to be impacted by Africa University's 4000+ graduates. (umc.org)
  • Among African nationalities in Guangzhou, the two countries with by far the most people are the West African nations of Nigeria and Mali. (wikipedia.org)
  • For example, the British chose the Arab minority to lord it over the majority Africans in the Sudan and favored the Fulani in Nigeria. (encyclopedia.com)
  • ABDELHAK SENNA/AFP/Getty Images The BBC has a pair of interesting stories today about an awful practice in Nigeria and other African countries where conmen pose as sports agents and dupe young, would-be soccer players out of thousands of dollars. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • The BBC has a pair of interesting stories today about an awful practice in Nigeria and other African countries where conmen pose as sports agents and dupe young, would-be soccer players out of thousands of dollars. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • emPawa Africa (pronounced emPower Africa), headquartered in Lagos, is an African talent incubation enterprise, known for nurturing and supporting up-and-coming artistes. (wikipedia.org)
  • Created as a result of the regionalization and decentralization process initiated by the IUCN Secretariat in 2006, PACO was born from the merger of the Central Africa and West Africa programs. (iucn.org)
  • Since 2014, the city's African population has significantly declined due to strict immigration enforcement by Chinese authorities and economic pressures in home countries including depreciation of the Nigerian naira and Angolan kwanza. (wikipedia.org)
  • Malaria, HIV/AIDS, and TB are 3 of the most prevalent infectious diseases in West Africa (5). (cdc.gov)
  • During the 2000s, the city's African population rapidly increased with a 2008 news report stating the number of African residents had increased by 30% to 40% annually. (wikipedia.org)
  • News of Ethiopia's victory declaration came hours after the United Nations announced that Eritrean President Issaias Afeworki had accepted an Organisation of African Unity (OAU) peace plan which implies Eritrean withdrawal from the contested western Badme zone. (bbc.co.uk)
  • Receive email alerts on new books, offers and news in African American history. (cambridge.org)
  • According to official figures, 430,000 arrivals and exits by nationals from African countries were recorded at the city's checkpoints in the first nine months of 2014. (wikipedia.org)
  • Hundreds of students from Africa, from more than 20 different countries, study at Cambridge every academic year. (cam.ac.uk)
  • Trafficking in African youths has become a growing concern for soccer's governing body, Fifa, as middlemen can bypass work permit restrictions and bring teenage Africans into European countries, where they are then sold to clubs for large sums of money, or simply discarded on the streets of major European cities. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • Three decades ago, when African bishops of The United Methodist Church surveyed the emerging socio-economic and political needs in their countries, they called on the church to invest in higher education in Africa. (umc.org)
  • The EIARC also discussed the challenges facing the teacher trade union movement in Africa, including violations of human and trade union rights in several countries, and falling membership. (ei-ie.org)
  • The shifts in the nature and geographical distribution of conflict across Africa make identifying both the causes of conflict and the ways to help countries avoid and end these conflicts, ever more challenging. (worldbank.org)
  • We're also proud to welcome students and staff from 33 countries in Africa. (ncl.ac.uk)
  • Countries in Africa are no strangers to major disease outbreaks that can result in illness and death of millions of people. (cdc.gov)
  • This will bring the total number of countries participating to 41 of the 46 countries in the African Region. (cdc.gov)
  • Several African countries are among the international growth-leading economies, foreign direct investments are increasing significantly, and we read about new business opportunities in the finance pages in the papers. (lu.se)
  • Most African countries contribute only marginally to the increase of greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide, in the atmosphere. (lu.se)
  • Vibrant teaching and research programmes focused on Africa exist across Cambridge, and we have a thriving African Society at the University. (cam.ac.uk)
  • Technical cooperation programmes and projects implemented are one of the main means of action to support constituents in promoting decent work in the African region and to give effect to the Decent Work Agenda in Africa 2007-15. (ilo.org)
  • Thomas Jennings , the first known African American to hold a patent, used the money he earned from his invention to fund abolitionist causes. (infoplease.com)
  • Make a difference today by giving to the Africa University Fund. (umc.org)
  • Eradicating polio from Africa remains one of the major challenges to global eradication by the target date. (cdc.gov)
  • This chapter discusses some of the challenges of differences in approaches to the African past by economists and historians, and also some new empirical evidence that changes some of the dominant narratives of economic development in Africa. (lu.se)
  • About a trillion dollars has been spent on aid to Africa over the past decade, with no obvious results," he says. (nature.com)
  • Tree-planting has become one of the most popular - albeit most controversial - forms of the strategy, with a marked increase in this type of project in Africa over the past decade. (lu.se)
  • The bridge that took Bamunoba from a Ugandan village to Stellenbosch is the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS). (nature.com)
  • After Turok came up with the idea for AIMS, he convinced the South African theoretical physicist Fritz Hahne to become the school's first director. (nature.com)
  • As of December 2011, there were 205 active technical cooperation projects being managed by the ILO in the African region. (ilo.org)
  • Rita Laranjinha, Director for Africa of the EEAS, underlined that multilateralism was at the heart of EU policy, and expressed the importance of EU-UNODC cooperation in the region, given the complex nature of the ever-evolving threats in Africa. (unodc.org)
  • There are two main areas where Africans live and do business in Guangzhou: Xiaobei and Guangyuanxi, both areas in the centrally located Yuexiu District. (wikipedia.org)
  • Africa Talent is therefore designed to position Africa's skilled pool talent to address Europe's talent shortages - creating a win-win situation for both regions and it professionals. (deloitte.com)
  • Three of the 12 African American senators held Illinois 's Class 3 seat , including Barack Obama , who went on to become President of the United States . (wikipedia.org)
  • This makes Illinois the state with the most African-American U.S. senators to date. (wikipedia.org)
  • The first two African-American senators represented the state of Mississippi during the Reconstruction era , following the American Civil War . (wikipedia.org)
  • He was the first African American to be elected by popular vote after the ratification in 1913 of the Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which established direct election of United States senators instead of indirect election by a state legislature. (wikipedia.org)
  • Many Roman Africans were generally local Berbers or Punics, but also the descendants of the populations that came directly from Rome and Roman Italy itself or the diverse regions of the Empire as legionaries and senators. (wikipedia.org)
  • The coordinator for African partnerships is Maja Wallberg . (cam.ac.uk)
  • Migrants from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, and Senegal are the remaining African communities in Guangzhou with at least a few hundred registered members at country-based civic organizations in 2014. (wikipedia.org)
  • Conflict and fragility exact a costly toll on the economies of Africa. (worldbank.org)
  • Africa could be the future in a world where the European and American economies are weakened and China's extreme growth has slowed down. (lu.se)
  • First of all, there are fewer political obstacles to investing in capital inflows in the more productive sectors, thereby diversifying the African economies. (lu.se)
  • Finally, another new feature is the growing African middle class which is an endogenous engine of growth in some economies. (lu.se)
  • The Roman African populations kept their Latin language, as well as their Nicene-Chalcedonian Christian religion, under the Germanic Vandal occupation, the Byzantine restoration and the Islamic conquest, where they progressively converted to Islam until the near-extinction of Christianity in the Maghreb in the 12th century under the Almohads. (wikipedia.org)
  • A sizable Latin speaking population developed from a multinational background, sharing the northwest African region with those speaking Punic and Berber languages. (wikipedia.org)
  • Organized jointly by the Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) and the World Bank's Office of the Chief Economist for the Africa Region, the conference focused on the causes and impacts of conflict and fragility in sub-Saharan Africa. (worldbank.org)
  • As we scale up our operational work in fragile states, a better understanding of the causes and impacts of conflict and fragility can help to prevent some of the deadly conflicts at the community level," said Makhtar Diop, the World Bank Vice President of the Africa Region, who delivered the conference's opening remarks . (worldbank.org)
  • And make this conference even more timely," said Francisco Ferreira, the World Bank Chief Economist for the Africa Region. (worldbank.org)
  • The first round of NIDs and SNIDs in the African Region ( Figure 1 ) were conducted from January 1996 through March 1997. (cdc.gov)
  • Measurement data from local field stations are important to increase understanding of how climate and radiation affect vegetation productivity and the carbon cycling in the region, but compared to Europe and North America, there is a relatively small amount of such data from Africa. (lu.se)
  • Paul MacKendrick, The North African Stones Speak (1969), UNC Press, 2000, p.326 African Romance Roman Africa (disambiguation) Roman colonies in Berber Africa Victor Duruy (1883). (wikipedia.org)
  • African Parks was established in 2000 as the African Parks Management and Finance Company, a privately held company . (wikipedia.org)
  • During the plenary assembly celebrating its golden jubilee, the leadership organization for bishops' conferences in Africa elected Cardinal Philippe Ouédraogo. (catholicnewsagency.com)