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	Sub-Saharan Africa: Environmental Issues (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Sub-Saharan Africa has one of the world's fastest growing populations (approximately 2.2% a year), and is expected to be home to over a billion people by 2025.
		In countries such as Nigeria and Angola, where the principal source of revenue is oil, debate on the impacts of oil exploration and development on the environment and the health of the community occur frequently between government, local citizens, environmental groups and oil companies.
		Africa is the world's largest consumer of biomass energy (firewood, agricultural residues, animal wastes, and charcoal), calculated as a percentage of overall energy consumption.
	www.eia.doe.gov /emeu/cabs/subafricaenv.html (2393 words)

	Africa & Subsaharan Africa (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The population varies dramatically on its density given the large areas such as the Sahara and Kalahari which are obviously sparsely inhabited and then on the other hand areas such as the Nile valley are densely populated.
		The rate of population growth for Africa averages around 2.08% per year and the age distribution is heavily weighted towards the young with about half the population in most countries being 15 years or younger.
		Africa’s population is mainly rural with only about one fifth of the population living in towns of more than 20,000 people.
	www.aidafrica.org.cob-web.org:8888 /ThePeople.htm (341 words)

	USAID Africa
		USAID missions throughout sub-Saharan Africa, and elsewhere, provide financial and technical assistance to people living with disabilities, including those who were disabled as a result of war and conflict.
		In sub-Saharan Africa, where the world's AIDS epidemic has hit the hardest, 3.2 people became newly infected in 2005 and 2.4 million adults and children died of AIDS related illnesses.
		Africa’s challenges are numerous and complex, but there is also much potential and opportunity for growth and development throughout the continent.
	www.usaid.gov /locations/sub-saharan_africa (1534 words)

	Sub-Saharan Africa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Sub-Saharan Africa is the term used to describe those countries of the African continent that are not considered part of North Africa.
		Africa as a whole was commonly known as "the Dark continent", a term that was usually intended to refer to the Sub-Saharan region.
		Generally, sub-Saharan Africa is the poorest region in the world, still suffering from the legacies of colonial conquest and occupation, neocolonialism, inter-ethnic conflict, and political strife.
	en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Sub-Saharan_Africa (571 words)

	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.
	www.unaids.org /en/Regions_Countries/Regions/SubSaharanAfrica.asp (781 words)

	Subsaharan Africa
		The slow-dying myth that Africa was deficient in fossil fuels.
		Madeira was occupied in 1420, the Azores rediscovered in 1430, and between 1433 and 1482 fl Africa's coast from Cape Bojador to the Congo river was opened for trade and control at critical points.
		Between 1822 and 1830, of 1568 soldiers in one detachment in W. Africa, 1298 died there of "climatic fever", 125 died on the voyage home, and half of the survivors died of tropical disease after returning to England; only 57 were discharged as "fit." pp.
	www.ems.psu.edu /~williams/world/africa.htm (2817 words)

	Trade With SubSaharan Africa
		Sub-Saharan Africa, a region with 48 countries and 643 million people, accounts for nearly 10 percent of the world’s population, and the largest regional bloc both in the United Nations and the World Trade Organization (38 members and 4 observers.
		To help Africa transition out of exporting commodities and into suppling value-added goods, the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) was enacted in May 2000, as part of the Trade and Development Act of 2000.
		One of the four OPIC Africa funds, the Africa Millennium Fund, was mandated by the AGOA legislation.
	www.exportmichigan.com /cg_ame_trade_w_subsaharan_africa.htm (2143 words)

	Geographia - An Introduction to Africa
		Empires rose and fell in Africa thousands of years before the European powers began their protracted exploitation of the continent, and much pre-colonial culture remains intact.
		Botswana's Kalahari desert is home to one of the Africa's most unique cultures, the resourceful bushmen who have lived there for thousands of years.
		The landscape of South Africa is also known for its variety, offering many options for adventure.
	www.geographia.com /indx06.htm (682 words)

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		Robert Guest, winner of the 2004 Bastiat Prize for Journalism given by the International Policy Network, is the Africa Editor for the Economist and the author of The Shackled Continent, a look into the reasons behind the incessant poverty that is rampant in Africa.
		In his writings on Africa, Guest explains that Africa is poor because its corrupt governments restrain citizens’ ability to better themselves.
		It explains how Africa’s problems are largely the result of decades of bad government, and the misery citizens live through is caused by tyrannical leaders and an international community that provides these dictators with foreign aid.
	www.dfn.org /region/africa.htm (406 words)

	The Edwards Foundation--Help for SubSaharan Africa (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		We provide programs and services to meet the needs of children who are adversely affected by social and economic situations that put them at-risk.
		Vision To help create a world where children can fulfill their dreams, reach their God given destiny, grow spiritually, mentally and physically without fear worry or concern about disease, hunger, poverty or abuse.
		Thanks to Security Manager Darrell Ives, and Depeche Mode we will be expanding our relief in Africa to the city of Rehoboth.
	edwardsfoundationonline.blogspot.com.cob-web.org:8888 (149 words)

	IFC Sub-Saharan Africa - IFC in Africa
		In December 2006, it became the first nonresident institution to issue a bond denominated in West African francs, marking a new milestone in the development of Sub-Saharan Africa’s local currency bond market.
		IFC's new Africa MSME Finance Program aims to raise the standards of financial services provided to microentrepreneurs and smaller businesses.
		The Investment Climate Facilty, with IFC support, aims to help Africa maintain momentum for private sector-led growth.
	www.ifc.org /africa (102 words)

	Derechos: Human Rights in Subsaharan Africa
		Africa is an extremely heterogenous continent, and human rights violations come in many forms as well.
		From genocide, slavery, mass disappearances and torture, to denial of freedom of speech or of the press, there is little that will not be found somewhere in Africa.
		This website only hopes to guide you to some resources with information on human rights in Africa.
	www.derechos.org /human-rights/afr (161 words)

	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
		Basic economic and investment data for individual countries in Africa
	www.lib.umich.edu /govdocs/forafr.html (854 words)

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