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- Burundi (13403 bytes)
3: Landlocked, facing population pressures and having sparse resources, Burundi is one of the poorest...
58: ...oration of democracy. After several more years of violence, a cease-fire was signed in 2003 between Bu...
64: ...ndi has been dominated in recent years by the [[civil war]] and a long [[peace process]] and move to [...
74: ...flows for 690 km (429 miles) before reaching Lake Victoria. The source of the [[Ruvyironza River]], a...
76: ... into 16 administrative [[Provinces of Burundi|provinces]]. The [[capital city]], [[Bujumbura]], has b... - Marie Curie (5862 bytes)
9: ...er was named [[radium]] from its intense radioactivity.
11: ...[[1903]]: "in recognition of the extraordinary services they have rendered by their joint researches o...
13: ...patent]] the radium isolation process, instead leaving it open so the scientific community could resea...
17: ...ichel later married her granddaughter H鬨ne Langevin-Joliot.
19: ... be identified as [[radon]]. Marie personally provided the tubes, milked from the radium she purified... - Map (10223 bytes)
3: ...''' is a simplified depiction of a [[space]], a navigational aid which highlights relations between ob...
7: ...uage by several millennia. One of the oldest surviving maps, painted on a wall of the [[Catal Huyuk]]...
9: ...f the Earth to the body of Christ. By contrast, navigational (or "Portolan") charts of the Mediterrane...
11: ...ewis Carroll]] made this point humorously in ''Sylvie and Bruno'' with his mention of a fictional map ...
13: ...ed Kingdom|British]] [[Ordnance Survey]] (now a civilian government agency internationally renowned fo... - Egypt (18830 bytes)
62: Egypt is famous for its [[Ancient Egypt|ancient civilization]] and some of the world's most stunning a...
67: ... country' or 'a state'. The name '''Egypt''' came via the Latin word ''Aegyptus'' derived from the anc...
69: ...for the development of one of the world's great civilizations. A unified kingdom was founded circa [[3...
73: ...sportation hub; however, the country also fell heavily into debt. Ostensibly to protect its investment...
77: ... Pyramids of Giza are at the heart of Egypt's thriving tourism industry.]] - Africa (35389 bytes)
8: ...t of the continent, as the [[Africa (province)|province of Africa]] with its capital [[Carthage]], cor...
37: ...the earliest nation states ever formed. Other [[civilization]]s include [[Ethiopia]], the [[Nubian kin...
41: ...eating many [[colony|colonial]] nation states, leaving only two independent nations ([[Liberia]] and [...
51: ...other similarity who resided on both sides. The division of the land between [[Belgium]] and [[France]...
55: ... thumb, and one could move from Hutu to Tutsi and vice versa. - United Arab Emirates (10825 bytes)
65: ...; all emirates have secular and Islamic law for civil, criminal, and high courts.
71: ...e foreign policy stance have allowed it to play a vital role in the affairs of the region. In recent y...
88: ...approaches to the [[Strait of Hormuz]] makes it a vital transit point for world crude oil. The UAE is ...
97: ...lly allowed to provide long distance telephone services.
103: ...g traditional forms of art and culture, including via the [[Abu Dhabi Cultural Foundation]]. Change is... - Nigeria (19231 bytes)
69: ...t Mohammed]] to power, who promised a return to civilian rule. However, he was killed in an abortive c...
71: ... won the turbulent elections of 2003. Although having won the election, Obasanjo has had a love-hate ...
82: [[Nigeria]] is divided into 36 [[state]]s and 1 [[territory]].
137: Nigeria is divided roughly in three by the rivers [[Niger River|N...
197: ...nce on the capital-intensive oil sector, which provides 20% of GDP, 95% of foreign exchange earnings, ... - Ghana (10910 bytes)
51: ...oordinated Universal Time|UTC]], no ([[Daylight Saving Time|DST]])
67: Upon achieving independence from the [[United Kingdom]], the n...
85: ...ies in [[West Africa]]. Even so, Ghana remains heavily dependent on international financial and techni...
92: Ghana is divided into 10 [[region]]s:
123: ...treams. A tropical rain forest belt, broken by heavily forested hills and many streams and rivers, ext... - Ethiopia (20233 bytes)
40: ...rom the [[United Kingdom|British]]) [http://www.civicwebs.com/cwvlib/africa/ethiopia/pankhurst/history...
67: ...ned independent. Italy and Ethiopia signed a [[provisional treaty]] of peace on [[October 26]], 1896.
69: ... a coalition of rebel forces. In [[1993]], the Province of [[Eritrea]] became independent from Ethiopi...
77: ... to boycott these elections, ensuring a landslide victory for the [[Ethiopian People's Revolutionary D...
79: ... has promoted a policy of ethnic federalism, devolving significant powers to regional, ethnically-base... - Algeria (16548 bytes)
62: ... [[Arabization]] of the countryside. The [[Almoravid]]s and [[Almohad]]s, Berber dynasties from the w...
68: ...00 ''[[harki]]s'' (pro-French Muslim Algerians serving in the French Army), together forming about 10%...
72: ...e were killed, often in unprovoked massacres of civilians by guerrilla groups such as the [[Armed Isla...
83: == Administrative Divisions ==
84: ''Main article: [[Provinces of Algeria]]'' - Jordan (20715 bytes)
69: ...lestine and Transjordan]]. In 1922, the British divided the mandate by establishing the semi-autonomou...
71: ...]] left Jordan in control of the West Bank and provided that the armistice demarcation lines were with...
77: ...istance elements (''fedayeen'') in Jordan. The heavily armed ''fedayeen'' constituted a growing threat...
79: ...d, however, until Jordanian forces won a decisive victory over the ''fedayeen'' in July 1971, expellin...
90: ...gious, and special. Administratively, Jordan is divided into eight [[governor]]ates, each headed by a ... - Madagascar (29377 bytes)
59: ...ter France fell to the [[Germany|Germans]], the [[Vichy]] government administered Madagascar. British ...
61: ...state within the French Community. A period of provisional government ended with the adoption of a con...
66: ...ndrava]], who was assassinated 6 days later. A provisional military directorate then ruled until a new...
68: ... of the education system crippled the economy, leaving traces even today of a highly centralized econo...
76: ...t the forum in protest of draft constitutional provisions preventing the incumbent president from runn... - Eritrea (12964 bytes)
53: ...as an extensive coastline with the [[Red Sea]]. Having achieved independence on May 24, [[1993]] from ...
62: ...exed by [[Ethiopia]], starting a 30-year long [[civil war]].
76: Eritrea is divided into 6 regions:
100: ...on [[infrastructure]], asphalting new roads, improving its ports, and repairing war damaged roads and ...
173: ===Overviews=== - Iraq (19222 bytes)
49: ..., replacing it with an interim American-backed Provisional Authority, and then an [[Iraqi Interim Gove...
56: ... [[November 2003]], the US-managed [[Coalition Provisional Authority]] announced plans to turn over so...
59: ...idency Council, consisting of a President and two Vice Presidents. (By unanimous agreement, the Presid...
64: ...the former Interim President and a Sunni Arab, as Vice Presidents. [[Ibrahim al-Jaafari]] a Shiite, wh...
70: Iraq is divided into 18 [[governorate]]s or [[province]]s (Arabic: ''muhafazat'', singular - ''muhafa... - Mali (7755 bytes)
64: Mali's constitution provides for a multi-party democracy, with the only res...
69: Mali is divided into nine [[region]]s, including the [[capital...
91: ...trated on processing farm commodities. Mali is heavily dependent on foreign aid and vulnerable to fluc...
120: ===Overviews===
130: * [http://dir.yahoo.com/Regional/Countries/Mali/ Yahoo! - ''Mali''] directory category - Central African Republic (6564 bytes)
2: ...e in [[1960]], by military governments. While a civilian government was installed in [[1993]], the cou...
62: ... ridiculed by much of the world. His human rights violations (which are said to have included [[cannib...
105: ===Overviews===
115: ....com/Regional/Countries/Central_African_Republic/ Yahoo! - ''Central African Republic''] directory catego... - The Gambia (13678 bytes)
67: ...stability of the Jawara era was first broken by a violent, unsuccessful coup attempt in [[1981]].
71: In July 1994, the Armed Forces Provisional Ruling Council (AFPRC) seized power in a mi...
73: ... return to democratic civilian government. The Provisional Independent Electoral Commission (PIEC) was...
84: ...by referendum in August 1996. The constitution provides for a strong presidential government, a [[unic...
88: == Subdivisions == - Lebanon (34225 bytes)
51: ...Coordinated Universal Time|UTC]] +2 ([[Daylight Saving Time|DST +3]])
73: ...[French Mandate of Lebanon|mandated]] the five provinces that make up present-day Lebanon to [[France]...
80: === Civil War, (1975-1990) ===
81: {{seemain|Lebanese Civil War}}
83: ...le East]] before the outbreak of the [[Lebanese Civil War]]. - Guinea-Bissau (9517 bytes)
65: ...the president's ousting and the [[Guinea-Bissau Civil War]]. Elections were held in [[2000]] and [[Kum...
69: ... President of the country. Former President Nino Vieira, deposed in the 1998 coup, also has returned ...
80: Guinea-Bissau is divided into nine regions (''regiões''):
99: ...hing economy was badly disrupted by the 1998-99 civil war. It has a foreign [[debt]] of $US 921 millio...
101: ... that a [[locust]] [[swarm]] was threatening this vital crop, and that the country did not have the re... - South Africa (40100 bytes)
19: ...ish. The reigning trend in all areas of public services, including educational institutions, seems to ...
24: ... the [[Fish River]], in today's [[Eastern Cape Province]]. These [[Iron Age]] populations displaced ea...
26: ...ercent of the population in the [[Western Cape Province]].
32: ...y themselves with German [[South West Africa]] provided the British with yet another excuse to take co...
34: ... by the Afrikaner governments. One of the main provisions of the treaty ending the war was that blacks...
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