Algiers, Algeria
Self-willed and hot Algeria is a stronghold of the Berbers given under the rule of the Sahara, where the sand carefully hides the monuments of ancient civilizations, and travel around the country turns into...
Category: Africa
Trips to Morocco
The Kingdom of Morocco is located in North Africa on the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic. On the Atlantic coast you will also find Rabat , the capital of Morocco. To the south and...
Kenya Tourism
There are no communication problems. According to Localbusinessexplorer, in Kenya, English is one of the two official languages, so there are no difficulties with communication. The Kenyans involved in the tourism business also speak...
Culture of Mauritius
NATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS Tourists who come to Mauritius in search of spacious beaches and blue lagoons are waiting for another amazing discovery: the extraordinary ethnic and cultural diversity of its inhabitants, who have come here...
Attractions in Seychelles
According to Equzhou, Mahe Island is the largest island (150 sq. km.), as well as the economic and political center of the country. 90% of the population lives here and the most modern Seychelles...
Holidays in Egypt
The question – where to relax in Egypt – is asked by a huge number of Russian tourists every year. And no wonder – this country regularly occupies the leading lists of the countries...
Nigeria Overview
Nigeria borders in the west with Benin, in the north with Niger, in the northeast with Chad (Lake Chad), in the east and southeast with Cameroon. The coastal plain on the Gulf of Guinea...
Lesotho History
About 25,000 years BC The San, nomadic hunters and gatherers, settled in what is now the state. Of their numerous cave paintings, around 5,000 can still be found in Lesotho. The Sotho nation began...
FAO – Food and Agriculture Organization
The business FAO’s activities are divided into four main areas: the organization compiles and disseminates knowledge, advises member countries, offers a meeting place for intergovernmental negotiations and disseminates knowledge in the field through development...
SADC Functions
The cooperation is project-oriented and is based on two or more member countries having a concrete interest in having a project realized. By supporting the parts (the countries), the whole (the region) is strengthened....
African Union Reconstruction
AU’s organization is built with the EU as a model. Its main bodies are the Assembly, the Executive Council, the Commission and the All-African Parliament. Arabic, English, French and Portuguese are working languages. The...
Zimbabwe 2014
Yearbook 2014 Zimbabwe. In April, leaders of the opposition party Democratic Change Movement (MDC) demanded that party leader Morgan Tsvangirai resign. The party’s national council accused Tsvangirai of negligent leadership and of using the...
Zambia 2014
Zambia is a landlocked nation in southern Africa. It is bordered by Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia, Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo. It has a population of over 17 million people....
Western Sahara 2014
Western Sahara is a disputed territory located in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered by Morocco to the north, Algeria to the northeast, Mauritania to the east and south, and the...
Uganda 2014
Yearbook 2014 Uganda. According to Countryaah.com, Uganda population in 2020 is estimated at 45,741,018. The reactions were strong on the tightening of laws against homosexuality signed by President Yoweri Museveni at the beginning of...
Tunisia 2014
Yearbook 2014 Tunisia. In January, Parliament adopted a new constitution and the country also got a new transitional government consisting of technocrats and party-politically independent persons. According to Countryaah.com, Tunisia population in 2020 is...
Togo 2014
Yearbook 2014 Togo. According to Countryaah.com, Togo population in 2020 is estimated at 8,278,735. Tensions rose at the end of the year ahead of the presidential election, which is expected in April 2015. Several...
Tanzania 2014
Yearbook 2014 Tanzania. According to Countryaah.com, Tanzania population in 2020 is estimated at 59,734,229. President Jakaya Kikwete reformed the government in January after the death of the finance minister and four other ministers were...
Sudan 2014
Yearbook 2014 Sudan. According to Countryaah.com, Sudan population in 2020 is estimated at 43,849,271. President Omar al-Bashir’s government struggled with economic problems, diplomatic isolation and ongoing conflicts in the country. In January, riots were...
South Africa 2014
Yearbook 2014 South Africa. At the beginning of the year, some 70,000 miners went on strike with demands for higher wages, and the work was paralyzed at the platinum mines, where more than one-sixth...
Somalia 2014
Yearbook 2014 Somalia. In January, in the autonomous Puntland, Parliament elected a new president. In the third round of voting, Abdiweli Mohamed Ali received one vote more than the incumbent President, Abdirahman Mohamed Farole....
Sierra Leone 2014
Sierra Leone State of Guinean West Africa; the portion of the land border, in the shape of a semicircle, which wraps it from NW to NE divides it from Guinea, while the south-eastern segment...
Seychelles 2014
Yearbook 2014 Seychelles. According to Countryaah.com, Seychelles population in 2020 is estimated at 98,358. The Seychelles, whose economy is largely dependent on fishing, received a patrol boat from China during the year. The vessel...
Senegal 2014
Yearbook 2014 Senegal. In January, the country’s fleet seized a Russian fishing vessel accused of illegal fishing in Senegal’s territorial waters. After the owner paid a fine of US $ 1.2 million, the ship...
Sao Tome and Principe 2014
Yearbook 2014 São Tomé and Principe. In January, the country’s health minister Leonel Pontes was fired by President Manuel Pinto da Costa. According to Countryaah.com, Sao Tome and Principe population in 2020 is estimated...
Saint Kitts and Nevis 2014
Yearbook 2014 Saint Christopher and Nevis. In January, it was announced that Saint Christopher and Nevis had submitted an application for membership in ALBA, a partner organization for Latin American and Caribbean countries. According to...
Rwanda 2014
Yearbook 2014 Rwanda. According to Countryaah.com, Rwanda population in 2020 is estimated at 12,952,229. The 20th anniversary of the genocide of 800,000 people was killed in April. President Paul Kagame again singled out France...
Romania 2014
Yearbook 2014 Romania. In a report, the European Commission expressed doubts about the independence of the Romanian judiciary, but former Prime Minister Adrian Nastase was sentenced to four years in prison at the beginning...
Republic of the Congo 2014
Yearbook 2014 Congo. In April, the authorities launched an operation targeting both criminal and paperless immigrants. According to Countryaah.com, Republic of the Congo population in 2020 is estimated at 5,518,098. The vast majority of...
Nigeria 2014
Yearbook 2014 Nigeria. According to Countryaah.com, Nigeria population in 2020 is estimated at 206,139,600. Nigeria’s government and security forces continued to fight the extremist Muslim movement Boko Haram in a wave of violence that...
Niger 2014
Yearbook 2014 Niger. According to Countryaah.com, Niger population in 2020 is estimated at 24,206,655. French nuclear power company Areva had halted the uranium mining in two of its mines in Niger before the New...
Namibia 2014
Yearbook 2014 Namibia. A total of 16 parties and nine presidential candidates ran in the parliamentary and presidential elections held November 28. According to Countryaah.com, Namibia population in 2020 is estimated at 2,540,916. An...
Mozambique 2014
Yearbook 2014 Mozambique. In January, negotiations between the government and the opposition party Renamo resumed on a solution to the ongoing conflict. That same month, Renamo announced that the party would run for president...
Morocco 2014
Yearbook 2014 Morocco. During the spring, hundreds of Salafists outside the Parliament demonstrated in the capital, Rabat. The protesters demanded that the Islamists imprisoned after the 2003 terrorist attack in Casablanca be released. According...
Mauritius 2014
Yearbook 2014 Mauritius. In June, Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Xavier-Luc Duval, representing the Mauritanian Social Democratic Party (Party Mauricien Social Democrat, PMSD), resigned, one of the parties in the government coalition. According...
Mauritania 2014
Yearbook 2014 Mauritania. According to Countryaah.com, Mauritania population in 2020 is estimated at 4,649,669. The country’s president Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz took office in January as president of the African Union. The presidency rotates...
Mali 2014
Yearbook 2014 Mali. The effects of the civil war between Islamists and government forces plagued the country. Over 350,000 people were estimated to be internally displaced in Mali and over 180,000 had moved abroad....
Malawi 2014
Yearbook 2014 Malawi. According to Countryaah.com, Malawi population in 2020 is estimated at 19,129,963. Internationally acclaimed President Joyce Banda lost power during the year in a presidential election whose results were disputed. In addition...
Madagascar 2014
Yearbook 2014 Madagascar. In the December 2013 presidential election, former Finance Minister Hery Rajaonarimampianina received 53.5% of the vote, thus appearing to have defeated former Health Minister Jean Louis Robertson. However, both candidates accused...
Libya 2014
Yearbook 2014 Libya. According to Countryaah.com, Libya population in 2020 is estimated at 6,871,303. The security situation in the country continued to be unstable during the year and the situation was particularly difficult in...