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| | General Essay on the Religions of Sub-Saharan Africa |
 | | It is possible, although far from certain, that Jewish groups made their way to Ethiopia as a result of the dispersion of the Jews from Israel in 722 BCE or 586 BCE. | | | However, there was also, as in the case of the Legio Maria movement, a reaction against the total European control of Christian churches, and a total identification with European ways of doing things, and ultimately with European ways of thinking. | | | Today there are some 100,000 Jews in South Africa. |
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| | Tips for Travelers to Sub Saharan Africa |
| | A visa is good only for those parts of a country that are open to foreigners. | | | The Department of State warns U.S. citizens against travel to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) because of security and political uncertainties. | | | Portuguese is the official language; French is also widely spoken. |
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http://travel.state.gov/travel/tips/brochures/brochures_1218.html
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| | Global Voices Online » Sub-Saharan Africa |
| | Zimbabwe: This is Zimbabwe is involved in a battle of semantics with Eddie cross after the former published this post which questioned some of the numbers put forth by the latter in this post after the MDC congress in Harare. | | | Modelled loosely on Global Voices Online, Enough is Enough is designed to act as a blog aggregator, an information exchange for concerned Zimbabweans within the country, and a “bridge blog” to carry the news in that country (now completely devoid of an independent press) to the outside world. | | | Several bloggers resent the involvement of foreign transition partners and other neighboring countries whom they find heavy-handed in the electoral process. |
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http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/-/world/sub-saharan-africa
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| | Radical Islam in Sub-Saharan Africa |
| | The two major ones that are generating passion are, of course, the Palestinian- Israeli issue and what is regarded as an imperial role by the United States in both Africa and the Middle East. | | | They point out that Muslims in countries historically dominated by Christians, such as Ethiopia and Ivory Coast, do not wield political power relative to their large numbers. | | | But George Washington University’s David Shinn, a former U-S Ambassador to Ethiopia and Burkina Faso, says it would be wrong to attribute this phenomenon to any one reason or country. |
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http://www.voanews.com/english/NewsAnalysis/2005-08-09-voa35.cfm
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| | USAID: Sub Saharan Africa Overview |
| | Another good sign for the continent is that support for democracy continues to grow: civil society has become increasingly vibrant, increased freedom of the press and new communications media such as the internet have expanded public access to information, and citizens are now more aware of their basic human rights. | | | Given what we know about ownership of the ways in which the challenges of the continent can be met, the U.S. and the international community have embraced NEPAD and have encouraged African leaders to move deliberately and purposely forward with its agenda. | | | Good governance is an essential condition of development." Indeed, Africa’s better-managed countries have also made the greatest gains in political rights and civil liberties. |
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http://www2.usaid.gov/policy/budget/cbj2004/sub-saharan_africa
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| | Sub-Saharan Africa: Environmental Issues |
| | Many believe that alternative energy sources such as wind, geothermal, and solar power are the key to solving the massive energy deficits in sub-Saharan Africa. | | | As people learn more about environmental degradation, they could begin to demand that their governments address the issues more forcefully. | | | This began even before the conference as non-governmental organizations and citizens' groups throughout Africa started collaborating to bring their issues to the forefront of the summit. |
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http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/subafricaenv.html
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| | List of Jews from Sub-Saharan Africa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | For more on who is considered Jewish, see Who is a Jew? | | | Here is a list of some prominent Sub-Saharan African Jews, arranged by country of origin. | | | However, the vast majority of Jews in Sub-Saharan Africa live in South Africa, and are of Ashkenazi (largely Lithuanian) origin. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_African_Jews
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| | SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA: |
| | Africa and the International System: The Politics of State Survival. | | | Political Parties and Civil Societies in Sub-Saharan Africa: Conflicting Objectives?, by Carol Graham | | | Africa: Selected Documents on Political, Security, Humanitarian and Economic Issues. |
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| | Sub-Saharan Africa |
| | Abstracted from Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic, UNAIDS, July 2004. | | | Shabbar Jaffar, Alison Grant, Jimmy Whitworth, Peter Smith, Hilton Whittle. | | | Africa and the World Trade Organization: The Issues in Brief |
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| | Sub-Saharan Africa, to 1700 |
| | In 1590, the sultan of Morocco, Ahmad al-Mansur, sent troops with muzzle loading rifles, to seize control of the trans-Saharan trade in gold. | | | The number of slaves exported from Africa to Christian societies between 1450 and 1600 has been estimated at 367,000, between 1601 and 1700 at 1,868,000, and between 1701 and 1800 at 6,133,000. | | | As for the Kongo, the cultural disintegration and the political disarray that the Portuguese left was accompanied by the development of a blend of Christianity and paganism. |
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| | AIDS and HIV statistics for Sub-Saharan Africa |
| | Children in this report are defined as under the age of 15 at the end of 2003, whilst orphans are people aged under 18 who have lost one or both parents to AIDS. | | | These statistics are estimates at the end of 2003 published by UNAIDS in their 'Report on the Global HIV/AIDS Epidemic, July 2004'. | | | An estimated 25 million adults and children were living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa at the end of 2003. |
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| | USAID Africa |
| | The United States has extensive and growing ties with the continent of Africa. | | | The humanitarian emergency in Darfur is a direct result of violence and harassment directed toward the Fur, Zaghawa, and Masaalit civilian groups by Government of Sudan (GOS) forces and GOS-supported militia groups collectively known as Jingaweit. | | | Africa’s challenges are numerous and complex, but there is also much potential and opportunity for growth and development throughout the continent. |
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| | Libya - Sub-Saharan Africa |
| | Qadhafi drew a parallel between Israeli occupation of Arab territory and colonialism in Africa and frequently offered significant economic assistance to countries that would sever ties with Israel. | | | By November 1973, twenty-seven African governments had broken relations with Israel, many declaring their support for the PLO in the process. | | | Libya's very active interest in sub-Saharan Africa has been directed toward isolating Israel diplomatically, liberating African countries under colonial or apartheid regimes, providing economic aid to developing African countries, and propagating Islam. |
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| | Sub-Saharan Africa Transport Policy Program |
| | The meeting planning activities are covered in the Planning Retreat Report — in English and French. | | | Conceived jointly by the World Bank and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa in the late nineteen-eighties the partnership has grown and matured with ownership fully embedded in its partners and members. | | | The breadth of the partnership, ranging from individual member countries to global institutions, provides opportunities for unique access and influence. |
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| | Sub-Saharan Africa |
| | As a result, crime and homelessness increase and family systems break down, especially under the added strains of internal political turmoil and the ravages of AIDS. | | | Most of the increase is the result of migration, reflecting people's hopes of escaping rural privation more than actual opportunity in the cities. | | | In fact, under the burden of structural adjustment programmes, formal employment in Africa's cities is not growing, while informal-sector job growth is not likely to keep pace with the 5-10 per cent anticipated growth rates in the working-age population. |
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| | HIV and AIDS in Africa |
| | These prevention programmes would cover sexual, mother-to-child and blood transfusion related HIV transmission. | | | The vast majority of people living with HIV/AIDS in Africa are between the ages of 15 and 49 - in the prime of their working lives. | | | Average life expectancy in Sub-Saharan Africa is now 47 years, when it could have been 62 without AIDS. |
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| | Africa: International Development Research Centre |
| | Africa has become the focus of development agendas for governments, development organizations, and donors. | | | A slideshow explains some of the challenges the continent faces, and the gains it has made in recent years. | | | In the past 30 years, IDRC has supported some 2,500 research projects directed and managed by African researchers and institutions. |
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| | Sub-Saharan Africa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Chad (also sometimes considered part of West Africa) | | | Chad (also sometimes considered part of Central Africa) | | | However, according to one classification of the two regions, sub-Saharan Africa includes forty-eight nations. |
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| | Sub-Saharan Africa |
| | Sub-Saharan Africa has just over 10% of the world’s population, but is home to more than 60% of all people living with HIV—25.8 million. | | | West and Central Africa (where estimated national HIV prevalence is considerably lower than in the south and east of the region) also show no signs of changing HIV infection levels, except for urban parts of Burkina Faso (where prevalence appears to be declining). | | | Southern Africa remains the epicentre of the global AIDS epidemic. |
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| | BBC NEWS Africa Sub-Saharan Africa poverty grows |
| | Sub-Saharan Africa is the only region where the number of people living in abject poverty has grown over the past 20 years, says a United Nations report. | | | But only a handful of more than 30 Sub-Saharan African nations were on track to reach the goals, said the report, by the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO). | | | The UNIDO report says those living in absolute poverty in the region rose from 42% to 47% from 1981 to 2001. |
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| | GTZ. Sub-Saharan Africa |
| | Many countries in Africa have held democratic elections in recent years. | | | However, collapsed state structures, cross-border refugee flows, lack of transparency in the exercise of political power, and economic mismanagement at state level are still in evidence. | | | Africa will not be able to achieve positive development results without good governance. |
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| | ENERGY IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA |
| | Sub-Saharan Africa has 9% of the world's population, and is responsible for 2.5% of world economic activity measured by volume. | | | In 1988, Africa represented 1.5% of global gas consumption despite having 10% of world population. | | | This is due partly to there not being a large domestic market for these fuels, partly that their export serves to service debts, and partly to the fact that control of these products is largely in the hands of international corporate bodies. |
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| | IFPRI 2020 Synthesis: A 2020 Vision for Food, Agriculture, and the Environment in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Synthesis |
| | External developments cannot be left out of the explanation for recent stagnation in Africa. | | | The key policy debates affecting African agricultural production and food security in 2020 will not be between external donors and governments, but among producers, consumers, the organizations that represent their specific interests, and governments. | | | The days are long gone in many areas when new entrants to the rural labor force could have automatic access to land, or when unsuccessful migrants to cities could return to till the land. |
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| | Sub-Saharan African History Sources |
| | Directory of archives and scholars working on Africa. | | | Also see the Basel Mission Picture Archive which includes photographs of Africa and Asia taken between 1850 and 1950. | | | Collection of photographs taken by Laura Collins, a missionary in Kenya during the early 1900s. |
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http://www.lib.washington.edu/subject/History/tm/africa.html
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| | Sub-Saharan Africa: Biological Organizations and Resources - NBII |
| | FTFA was invited to join the international Global ReLeaf as their sub-Saharan partners. | | | The site contains information on the organization's research projects. | | | Portal for conservation of Africa's flora and fauna that attempts to pull alll worthy African conservation causes together on the net. |
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| | Eldis - Africa |
| | One of the largest policy debates in South Africa currently revolves around the issue of whether or not poverty and inequality have been reduced since political transition from the apartheid regime to.... | | | This research paper critically evaluates the key issues and approaches in community-based natural resource conflict management. | | | Add this listing as a newsfeed to your own website or RSS reader |
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| | Foreign Governments/Africa |
| | Population counts for 4800 administrative units in Africa, 1960, 1970, 1980, 1990, and 2000 | | | English translation of news stories about Africa from African press agencies, Britain, and international organizations | | | Links to sites with general and political information about Africa |
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| | Sub-Saharan Africa :: Home |
| | Canada's fundamental interest in sub-Saharan Africa is to help reverse the region's social and economic marginalisation from the rest of the world. | | | On April 4, 2006, Governor General Michaëlle Jean officially opened the First Session of the 39th Parliament by setting out the Government's goals and priorities with the reading of the Speech from the Throne. |
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| | SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA |
| | The RNIS has not seen the survey report but OCHA reports that the results did not indicate a high rate of acute malnutrition (OCHA 30/05/01). | | | This represents a slight increase from the 225,042 reported in the last RNIS mostly as a result of LRA activity in Sudan which has caused the influx of Sudanese refugees into the districts of Moyo, Adjumani and Arua. | | | The RNIS has no recent reports on the nutrition status of refugees in Uganda but OCHA reported on a survey conducted by Africa Humanitarian Action in refugee settlements in Adjumani. |
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| | Human Rights Watch: Africa |
| | Congolese human rights activists are looking forward to the deployment of European Union troops in the Democratic Republic of Congo prior to elections there this summer, but they still fear facing an ugly scenario: that the Europeans will only protect other Europeans from violence. | | | The transfer of former Liberian President Charles Taylor to the U.N.-backed war crimes court in Sierra Leone is an enormous step toward ensuring justice for atrocities in West Africa, Human Rights Watch said today. | | | Nigeria’s announcement that it will consent to the transfer of former Liberian President Charles Taylor to Liberia is a landmark step toward ensuring justice for West Africa, Human Rights Watch said today. |
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| | IFC Sub-Saharan Africa - IFC in Africa |
| | IFC also initiated several infrastructure advisory assignments this year and concluded a successful private concession for a port in Madagascar. | | | IFC is the largest multilateral source of loan and equity financing for private sector projects in Africa, which in FY 2005, benefited from the recovery of the world economy, rising commodity prices, improved macroeconomic stability, and country-specific developments. | | | IFC's strategy calls for an increase in technical assistance, which is being delivered through the new Private Enterprise Partnership for Africa, a joint program with the International Development Association at the World Bank, and other initiatives; the focus includes leasing, export promotion, reforms of business regulation, and helping companies respond to the challenges of HIV/AIDS. |
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| | View Job |
| | This is a joint position shared by the History Department and the International Studies Program. | | | Women and members of minority groups are strongly encouraged to apply. | | | Candidates should send a letter of application detailing research and teaching interest, c.v., dossier, and at least three letters of recommendation to Prof. |
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| | Michael C. Carlos Museum: Permanent Collection: Sub-Saharan African Art |
| | The rest are from the Equatorial Central region of the continent, located mainly in the modern state of Zaïre. | | | A majority of the objects come from West Africa, with a focus on the numerous cultures of Nigeria, Benin (formerly Dahomey), and the Cameroon Grassfields. | | | The Carlos Museum's collection of 19th and 20th century African art offers valuable insight into African artistic expressions in the variety of their forms, functions, and cultures of origin. |
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| | SciDev.Net |
| | Welcome to SciDev.Net's Sub-Saharan Africa gateway, presenting news, views and information on science and technology in this region. | | | A long way to go on bird flu research, say scientists | | | Other websites containing information about science and technology in sub-Saharan Africa: |
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| | Sub-Saharan African Studies |
| | British Africa: Internal Affairs and Foreign Affairs, 1945–1959 | | | South Africa: Internal Affairs and Foreign Affairs, 1945–January 1963 |
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| | Agricultural Science and Technology Indicators On-Line Publications - Sub Saharan Africa |
| | Back navigation: Home > Publications > ASTI Publications - Sub-Saharan Africa | | | The Agricultural Science and Technology Indicators (ASTI) initiative comprises a network of national, regional, and international agricultural R&D agencies and is managed by the ISNAR division of IFPRI. | | | Agricultural R&D in Sub-Saharan Africa: Recent Country Briefs and Datasets. |
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| | UNESCO - Education for All - Regional forums - Sub-Saharan Africa |
| | The frequent turn-over of Education Ministers hampers progress towards Education for All, said national EFA coordinators from twenty French-speaking countries in Africa. | | | But they still need technical assistance to ensure the improvement of these plans as well as their integration into poverty and development frameworks such as UNDAF and the Fast-Track Initiative | | | UNESCO's website on Education for all in Africa |
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| | Bretton Woods Project - Focus on Sub-Saharan Africa |
| | Chad and World Bank: PWYP urges all stakeholders to resume talks to end current stalemate 7 April | | | On 31 January, the IFC approved a $125 million loan to Newmont Mining Corporation for the development of the Ahafo gold mine project in western Ghana, which NGOs link to human rights and environmental problems. | | | The IEO has released a draft issues paper for a planned evaluation of the Fund's role in determining aid resources in sub-Saharan Africa. |
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| | Sub-Saharan Africa |
| | UNHCR plans to repatriate some 60,000 Somalis to North West Africa in 2000. | | | In 1999, 23,000 Somalis were assisted to repatriate (over 82,000 since 1997). | | | A severe drought is currently affecting the horn of Africa including several countries in the Great Lakes Region. |
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| | International Travel News: Sub-Saharan Africa |
| | The trip was remarkably well organized for travel in sub-Saharan Africa, thanks in no small part to our highly experienced, polylingual tour leader, Herbert Goebels. | | | There, we were introduced to the horrors of the slave trade that persisted in this part of Africa for four centuries. | | | We visited nine West African countries in February '04 on the "Unusual West Africa Tour No. 3" offered by Universal Travel System (1434 Sixth St., Ste. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3648/is_9_29/ai_n6359393
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| | Anglican Africa : Information on Sub-Saharan Africa |
| | The Anglican Africa home page serves as a directory of information about Anglican provinces, dioceses, parishes, theological colleges and other institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa. | | | Theological schools in Africa + Other theological schools where Africans are trained | | | You are invited to submit new information, additions to items listed, corrections and updates for the Anglican Africa website to rcayers@saia.org |
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| | PRB Home |
| | This month: U.S. minorities undergo record numbers of plastic surgery procedures; and California newborns with Arabic names were at increased risk of low birth weight after 9/11. | | | 14 million people are coinfected with TB and HIV—70 percent of them in sub-Saharan Africa. | | | Gender and Equity in Access to Health Care Services in the Middle East and North Africa |
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| | PRB |
| | This collection of resources on CD-ROM provides materials on population and health for classroom instruction and training, including publications and discussion questions, presentation tools, and a format for creating a customized course syllabus. | | | Traditional gender roles and a lack of livelihood diversification are exacerbating the intergrated dynamics of these issues. | | | Resources & Tools for Educators CD-ROM (Africa Edition) |
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| | UNESCO Higher Education Knowledge Base on Open and Distance Learning |
| | Funded by UNESCO and the World Bank, this site is a cconsolidated information system and database on Open and Distance Learning in sub-Saharan Africa. | | | The broader purpose of this 'knowledge base' is to offer an integrated knowledge guide to distance education and open learning. |
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| | Sub-Saharan Africa |
| | Cameroon South Africa Mozambique Equatorial Guinea Democratic Republic of Congo/Zaire Lesotho Zimbabwe Gabon Congo Swaziland Zambia Malawi Botswana Angola Namibia Madagascar |
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