Population and society The complex ethnic, linguistic and religious identity of Sudan is combined with a young population and in strong growth, which according to 2012 estimates would have reached almost 38 million. The Arabs, descendants of the ancient conquerors, are the most important group and constitute 70% of the population. They are mainly concentrated… Read More »
Having achieved independence from the Anglo-Egyptian condominium in 1956, Sudan has been torn apart for much of its recent history by the conflicts between the various cultural, religious and economic components which then produced, in 2011, the secession of South Sudan. In relation to the principle of colonial derivation of the intangibility of borders, which… Read More »
Area and population. – The colony of Kenya, with the small coastal stretch having the status of protectorate, has 582,579 km 2 surface area (5645 are of the protectorate), and is currently divided into 6 provinces, plus the autonomous district of the capital, Nairobi, which is in the Central Province. For customs purposes, Kenya has been… Read More »
The Republic of Kenya is a country in East Africa. Formerly a British colony and protectorate, it gained independence in 1963. Area 582.6 thousand square meters. km. Population 29 million (1998). The capital is Nairobi. GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION, NATURE An independent state on the African continent. This East African country is unique in many ways: one… Read More »
Visit Ethiopia, a country in north-east Africa, as part of a study trip! Ethiopia is the tenth largest country in Africa, and is around three times the size of Germany. Most of Ethiopia is occupied by the highlands of Abyssinia; The capital of the country, Addis Ababa, is also located in these vast high mountains.… Read More »
ECONOMY: INDUSTRY AND MINERAL RESOURCES Industry, while employing just 4.2% of the active population, participates for over 25% in the formation of the national product (2008). The industrial apparatus operates above all in the transformation of local agricultural products: breweries, tobacco factories, oil mills, sugar refineries, cotton mills, etc.; There are also some cement factories… Read More »
History Settlement of the island by population groups from Southeast Asia and Africa began from the 4th century, later the Arabs followed to a lesser extent, who probably set up the first trading posts on the northwest coast in the 10th century. After the discovery by the Portuguese in 1500, they built coastal bases; from… Read More »
TERRITORY: MORPHOLOGY Over 40% of the territory is made up of coastal alluvial plains and reliefs below 300 meters. The remainder presents the geological structure typical of the African continent, tabular, rigid, without corrugations, affected by deep fractures: in the northern section, which represents the direct continuation of the East African plateaus, it is extinguished… Read More »
Ancient kingdoms Since the 10th century, Bantu-speaking groups formed small agricultural states in what is now Uganda. The Kitara empire was founded around 1350 and extended (starting from Bunyoro ) to what is now northern Rwanda and western Kenya. After its decline and a phase of instability, the Bunyoro Empire expanded from around 1500 and… Read More »
Rwanda is located a little south of the equator in the transition from East Africa to Central Africa. The landscape is taken up by a plateau. The west with the large Kiwu Lake belongs to the area of the Central African Rift. In the north rise the Virunga volcanoes with the 4507 m high Karisimbi… Read More »