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COVID-19 pandemic in Africa Disease COVID-19 Virus strain SARS-CoV-2 Location Africa First outbreak Wuhan, Hubei, China Arrival date 14 February 2020 (4 years, 4 months, 3 weeks and 3 days ago) Confirmed cases 11,984,539 (as of 10 May) Active cases 562,295 (as of 10 May) Recovered 11,168,212 (as of 10 May) Deaths 254,032 (as of 10 May) Territories 58 Part of a series on the COVID-19 pandemic ...
BRICS is an intergovernmental organization comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Iran, Egypt, Ethiopia, and the United Arab Emirates.Originally identified to highlight investment opportunities, the grouping evolved into an actual geopolitical bloc, with their governments meeting annually at formal summits and coordinating multilateral policies since 2009.
Eritrea ( / ˌɛrɪˈtriːə / ⓘ ERR-ih-TREE-ə or /- ˈtreɪ -/ -TRAY-; [17] [18] [19] Tigrinya: ኤርትራ, romanized:Ertra, pronounced [ʔer (ɨ)trä] ⓘ ), officially the State of Eritrea, is a country in the Horn of Africa region of Eastern Africa, with its capital and largest city at Asmara. It is bordered by Ethiopia in the south ...
Not too far away in the South Pacific, the Korowai tribe of Indonesian New Guinea allegedly still has a culture of cannibalism. There are thought to be an estimated 4,000 tribesmen living in the ...
Namibia ( / nəˈmɪbiə / ⓘ, / næˈ -/ ), [15] [16] officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa. Its western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Angola and Zambia to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the east and south. Although it does not border Zimbabwe, less than 200 metres ...
Niger's military leader, speaking alongside the junta chiefs from Mali and Burkina Faso, has said they are "irrevocably" turning their backs on the wider West African bloc, Ecowas. The three men ...
Twenty-two children have died and at least 132 have been injured after a school building collapsed in Nigeria’s central Plateau state, local officials say.
In 1677, King Frederick William I of Prussia sent an expedition to the western coast of Africa. The commander of the expedition, Captain Blonk, signed agreements with the chieftains of the Gold Coast. There, the Prussians built a fort named Gross Friederichsburg and restored the abandoned Portuguese fort of Arguin.