Yearbook 2008 Sudan. The new United Nations Mission in Darfur (UNAMID), jointly led by the UN and the African Union (AU), began stationing in the troubled Darfur region in January. After some resistance, the Sudanese government gave the peace force full freedom of movement in the area but continued to oppose non-African troops. Sweden and…
Category: Africa
But what climates can Africa be divided into?
A special feature of this continent, which only Africa can show, is the overlap of the two tropics of the earth. Accordingly, Africa can also mainly be described as a tropical continent, although the subtropics can be found both in the north and in the south. In general, however, the tropical climates follow one another almost symmetrically. Since the so-called “Congo Basin” and the Upper Berguine Coast core areas are known for their tropical, humid climate, only temperatures above 18 degrees Celsius and high amounts of precipitation can be recorded here. In the north, south and east of the continent, however, a hot and humid savanna climate can be found, which is characterized by both rainy and dry seasons. Furthermore, areas near the equator also belong to the hot savannah climate in East Africa.
The exclusively arid regions of Africa are the central regions of Namibia and Kalahari and the Sahara, which have high temperatures every day. Areas on the Red Sea, on the other hand, can undoubtedly be called the hottest places on earth. Because temperatures of up to 50 degrees can be reached here in the summer months of July and August. The north of Sudan is also strongly influenced by this climate, but has lower temperatures. A dry summer and partly Mediterranean climate can only be found in the Cape Country.
In terms of topography, the continent of Africa can be divided into 53 states. It is also worth mentioning that the state of Mauritania has been excluded and Morocco has replaced it. Furthermore, the so-called “Arab Sahara Republic” is not officially to be found, but is recognized as a full member by many other countries on the continent. The Somaliland Republic has not yet been formally recognized either. But regardless of any political point of view, the number of 53 African states remains.
Africa’s languages
There is no continent in which more languages with their different dialects are spoken than in Africa. However, the African languages should by no means be seen as a common language family. The Arabic spoken in North Africa has absolutely nothing to do with the Afrikaans spoken in South Africa. An important subdivision of languages is those that originated in Africa and are only spoken there, and languages that were introduced from outside, such as English and Arabic. The former colonial languages, English, French and Portuguese, are still widely spoken in the former colonies and are usually also the official language of the countries concerned or at least serve as the lingua franca. For more information about the continent of Africa, please check physicscat.com.
South Africa 2008
Yearbook 2008 South Africa. National Police Chief Jackie Selebi was suspended from office in January after prosecutors announced that they intended to bring charges against him for corruption. He was accused of receiving money from a murderous businessman. He immediately left the assignment as head of Interpol. One of South Africa’s most experienced judges, Tamil-murdered…
Somalia 2008
Yearbook 2008 Somalia. One result of Somalia’s collapse as a state was the sharply increased piracy activity along the country’s coast during the year. By mid-December, over a hundred vessels of various kinds had been attacked and some 40 of them were hijacked, including a Ukrainian ship loaded with tanks to Kenya and a Saudi-owned…
Sierra Leone 2008
Yearbook 2008 Sierra Leone. In January, the government decided to ban timber exports for the time being. Chinese and other foreign companies have been accused of deforestation, especially since the logging ban in Guinea and Ivory Coast drove them to Sierra Leone. Local elections were conducted in July in orderly form. Like the 2007 parliamentary…
Seychelles 2008
Yearbook 2008 Seychelles. The international financial crisis in the fall of 2008 led to a decline in Seychelles’ important tourism industry. The crisis also made it clear that the country’s powerhouse had built up an unsustainable economy with large government spending at the expense of very high foreign debt. In September, the effects of the…
Senegal 2008
Yearbook 2008 Senegal. In the spring of 2008, the protests that started in November the year before continued against rising food prices. On March 30, police launched tear gas at protesters in Senegal’s capital, Dakar, which sought to conduct a protest march against deteriorating living conditions as a result of continued food price increases. The…
Sao Tome and Principe 2008
Yearbook 2008 São Tomé and Príncipe. The unstable parliamentary situation that prevailed after an unclear result in the 2006 general election led in February to the government not being able to support its budget. Prime Minister Tomé Vera Cruz and his government resigned, but unrest continued. New Prime Minister Patrice Emery Trovoada, leader of parliament’s…
Rwanda 2008
Yearbook 2008 Rwanda. Already in 2006, Rwanda had broken diplomatic relations with France. This after a French judge accused the circle of President Paul Kagame for lying behind the 1994 assassination of the then president who triggered the massacre of 800,000 Tutsis. In 2008, the situation deteriorated another step when President Kabuye’s President of the…
Republic of the Congo 2008
Yearbook 2008 Congo. Yet many years after the civil war that plagued Republic of the Congo in the years 1997–2003, the country has not healed the wounds. Only in 2008 did the Army begin the arduous task of collecting and destroying the quantities of abandoned weapons and scarce ammunition still scattered on the old battlefields….
Nigeria 2008
Yearbook 2008 Nigeria. By mid-year, the country’s courts had rejected eleven of the 2007 governorship elections with reference to electoral fraud. Several dozens of elections by members of the federal parliament or state assemblies were also annulled. However, a special court rejected the protests against the election of President Umaru Yar’Adua on the grounds that…