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Africa. Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia. At about 30.3 million km 2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 20% of Earth 's land area and 6% of its total surface area. [ 7] With nearly 1.4 billion people as of 2021, it accounts for about 18% of the world's human ...
Kenya. August 3, 1914 – November 1918 East African Campaign (World War I) June 10, 1940 – November 27, 1941 East African Campaign (World War II) 1952–1960 Mau Mau Uprising. 1963–1967 Shifta War. 1980 Garissa Massacre. February 10, 1984 Wagalla massacre. 1987–1990 Kenyan-Ugandan border conflict. 2005 Turbi Village Massacre.
Afro-Eurasia. Afro-Eurasia (also Afroeurasia and Eurafrasia) [citation needed] is a landmass comprising the continents of Africa, Asia, and Europe. The terms are compound words of the names of its constituent parts. Afro-Eurasia has also been called the "Old World", in contrast to the "New World" referring to the Americas.
The declaration, to be issued at the end of the event, will outline Africa's position on issues ahead of the COP28 U.N. climate summit in Dubai beginning at the end of November. Factbox-What to ...
Demographics of Africa. Demographics of Africa. Population pyramid of Africa in 2023 based on the United Nations geoscheme for Africa collective grouping. Density. 44 per sq km (2019 est.) Growth rate. 2.5% per annum (2017 est.) Map of Africa indicating Human Development Index (2021). 0.800–0.849.
June 10, 2023 at 10:44 AM. (Reuters) - South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa has briefed Chinese leader Xi Jinping on the upcoming visit by African leaders to Russia and Ukraine in a bid to end ...
Geography of Africa. Africa is a continent comprising 63 political territories, representing the largest of the great southward projections from the main mass of Earth 's surface. [ 1] Within its regular outline, it comprises an area of 30,368,609 km 2 (11,725,385 sq mi), excluding adjacent islands. Its highest mountain is Kilimanjaro; its ...
It was left for 19th-century European explorers, including those searching for the famed sources of the Nile, notably John Hanning Speke, Richard Francis Burton, David Livingstone, and Henry Morton Stanley, to complete the exploration of Africa by the 1870s. After this, the general geography of Africa was known, but it was left to further ...