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3 unusual facts about sub-Saharan Africa


Africa 24

It broadcasts in French and as such based in France, but is also available in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Alexander Shelepin

The policy of providing KGB support to national liberation movements in Central America and Sub-Saharan Africa was adopted during Shelepin's tenure in the summer of 1961 by Khrushchev and CPSU Central Committee.

EGMONT - The Royal Institute for International Relations

The research takes place within the framework of three research programmes: European Affairs (dealing with European integration), Europe in the world (dealing with Europe’s role in international relations) and Africa (focusing mostly on Sub-Saharan and Central Africa).


Akan Drum

The drum is made from two species of wood that are native to sub-Saharan Africa, Baphia and Cordia africana.

Bamburi Cement

Bamburi Cement is one of sub-saharan Africa's largest cement producers founded by Felix Mandl.

Das Fest des Huhnes

The morals and customs of the "native peoples" of Upper Austria are described by a team of anthropologists from Sub-Saharan Africa in the style of European and American anthropologists in the non-western world.

Mestico

The Mestiço are primarily of mixed European, native born indigenous Angolan and/or other indigenous African lineages.

Oceanus

Though Herodotus was skeptical about the physical existence of Oceanus, he rejected snowmelt as a cause of the annual flood of the Nile river; according to his translator and interpreter, Livio Catullo Stecchini, he left unsettled the question of an equatorial Nile, since the geography of Sub-Saharan Africa was unknown to him.

Spodoptera cilium

Spodoptera cilium, known variously as Dark Mottled Willow, Lawn Caterpillar and Grasslawn Armyworm, is a noctuid moth found throughout much of Sub-Saharan Africa and western, southern and south-east Asia and several countries in southern and eastern Europe.

The Rough Guide to Acoustic Africa

The Rough Guide To Acoustic Africa is a world music compilation album originally released in 2013 featuring acoustic music spanning Sub-Saharan Africa.

Themo H. Peel

A percentage of the sales of the book were donated to Book Aid International, a charity that increases access to books and supports literacy, education and development in Sub-Saharan Africa.


see also

A. digitata

Adansonia digitata, the baobab, a tree species found in the hot, dry savannahs of sub-Saharan Africa

AFCA

American Foundation for Children with AIDS, a non-profit organization that helps children in sub-Saharan Africa

Africa 24

In January 2013, Arab Satellite Communications Organization (Arabsat) announced that it would be making Africa 24 available to satellite subscribers in the Middle East and North Africa, intending to reach a core audience of immigrants to the region from Sub-Saharan Africa.

African Sacred Ibis

A wading bird of the ibis family, Threskiornithidae, the Sacred Ibis breeds in sub-Saharan Africa, southeastern Iraq, and formerly in Egypt, where it was venerated and often mummified as a symbol of the god Thoth.

Antonio de Noli Academic Society

The Antonio de Noli Academic Society is an international, non-profit research organization founded in 2009 at Serra Riccò (Province of Genoa, Italy) by descendants of the Genoese navigator Antonio de Noli—the first discoverer of Cape Verde Islands and the first European Colonial Governor in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Greyish Eagle-Owl

It is found in the northern part of sub-Saharan Africa from Mauretania and Liberia east to Sudan and Somalia.

Kisangani Mutinies

The song Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner, co-written by singer-songwriter Warren Zevon and former mercenary David Lindell about a fictitious mercenary in sub-Saharan Africa, states that "in sixty-six and seven, they fought the Congo war." The Congo Crisis itself ended by the end of 1965, with the Kisangani Mutinies in 1966 and 1967 as part of its aftermath.

Paul Biya

"Tyrants, the World's 20 Worst Living Dictators", by David Wallechinsky, ranked Biya with three others commonly in sub-Saharan Africa: Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea, and King Mswati of Swaziland.

Red-throated Wryneck

This species is resident in sub-Saharan Africa, and is the non-migratory counterpart of the Eurasian Eurasian Wryneck.

Setnakhte

According to a genetic study in December 2012 published in the British Medical Journal, Setnakhte's son Ramesses III belonged to Y-DNA haplogroup E1b1a, a YDNA haplogroup mainly found in Sub-Saharan Africa with a possible source of origin in East Africa.

Suresh Kumar

During his time as the Special Advisor to the Clinton Foundation, Kumar worked with Governments in Sub Saharan Africa and corporate CEOs to establish collaborative business models and execute farmer and market friendly programs to promote food security and stimulate economic development in the region