Mauritania is a country located in Western Africa. With the capital city of Nouakchott, Mauritania has a population of 4,649,669 based on a recent census from COUNTRYAAH. Mauritania became independent from colonial power France on November 28, 1960. The history of the young nation is dominated by military coups, dictatorial rule, border conflicts with neighboring… Read More »
Mauritius is a country located in Eastern Africa. With the capital city of Port Louis, Mauritius has a population of 1,271,779 based on a recent census from COUNTRYAAH. By the independence of the British in 1968, Mauritius already had a functioning multi-party system dominated by a couple of strong personalities that would affect the country… Read More »
Morocco is a country located in Northern Africa. With the capital city of Rabat, Morocco has a population of 36,910,571 based on a recent census from COUNTRYAAH. Independent Morocco is strongly influenced by King Hassan II’s long reign, 1961–1999. He ruled with a hard hand, but also skillfully played on the Moroccan nationalist sentiments, including… Read More »
Mozambique is a country located in Eastern Africa. With the capital city of Maputo, Mozambique has a population of 31,255,446 based on a recent census from COUNTRYAAH. The former guerrilla movement Frelimo became Mozambique’s ruling party after the country’s independence from the colonial power of Portugal in 1975. Two years later, Frelimo adopted Marxist-Leninist ideology… Read More »
Namibia is a country located in Southern Africa. With the capital city of Windhoek, Namibia has a population of 2,540,916 based on a recent census from COUNTRYAAH. In March 1990, the independent nation of Namibia was proclaimed. The former liberation movement Swapo had already formed government and its leader Sam Nujoma had been elected president.… Read More »
Niger is a country located in Western Africa. With the capital city of Niamey, Niger has a population of 24,206,655 based on a recent census from COUNTRYAAH. The first years in Niger after independence from colonial power France 1960 were marked by political contradictions and unsuccessful attempts at reconciliation between the ruling circle of conservative… Read More »
Nigeria is a country located in Western Africa. With the capital city of Abuja, Nigeria has a population of 206,139,600 based on a recent census from COUNTRYAAH. Nigeria became independent from the United Kingdom in 1960. Ethnic and religious tensions contributed to the collapse of democracy in 1966. In a civil war that raged from… Read More »
Republic of the Congo is a country located in Central Africa. With the capital city of Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo has a population of 5,240,011 based on a recent census from COUNTRYAAH. Congo became independent from France in 1960. Former Prime Minister Fulbert Youlou was elected President of the New Republic. YouTube’s French-friendly policies… Read More »
Rwanda is a country located in Eastern Africa. With the capital city of Kigali, Rwanda has a population of 12,952,229 based on a recent census from COUNTRYAAH. After independence from colonial power Belgium in 1962, Rwanda was characterized for several decades by how the Tutsis and Hutu people fought for power. Country-driven Tutsis strived to… Read More »
Sao Tome and Principe is a country located in Central Africa. With the capital city of Sao Tome, Sao Tome and Principe has a population of 219,170 based on a recent census from COUNTRYAAH. After independence in 1975, President Manuel Pinto da Costa and his party, the Freedom Movement for São Tomé and Príncipe (MLSTP),… Read More »
Senegal is a country located in Western Africa. With the capital city of Dakar, Senegal has a population of 16,743,938 based on a recent census from COUNTRYAAH. In 1960, the Republic of Senegal achieved full independence from the colonial power of France. The country’s first president was Leopold Sédar Senghor. In the 1960s, Senegal was… Read More »
Seychelles is a country located in Eastern Africa. With the capital city of Victoria, Seychelles has a population of 98,358 based on a recent census from COUNTRYAAH. The British colony of Seychelles peacefully became an independent nation in 1976. The following year, the first president was deposed in a bloody coup. New president became Albert… Read More »
Sierra Leone is a country located in Western Africa. With the capital city of Freetown, Sierra Leone has a population of 7,976,994 based on a recent census from COUNTRYAAH. After independence in 1961, Sierra Leone suffered a slow start, then rapidly accelerating decay. Authoritarian rule, poor economy and ever worse corruption caused a popular dissatisfaction… Read More »
Somalia is a country located in Eastern Africa. With the capital city of Mogadishu, Somalia has a population of 15,893,233 based on a recent census from COUNTRYAAH. Independent Somalia was characterized from the beginning by strong tensions between the north and the south. In the 1960s several elections were held, but in 1969 the military… Read More »
South Africa is a country located in Southern Africa. With the capital city of Bloemfontein; Pretoria; Cape Town, South Africa has a population of 59,308,701 based on a recent census from COUNTRYAAH. After the victory in the 1948 elections, the Nationalist Party began to implement apartheid. The basic idea was that the blacks would live… Read More »
South Sudan is a country located in Eastern Africa. With the capital city of Juba, South Sudan has a population of 11,193,736 based on a recent census from COUNTRYAAH. South Sudan’s modern history is closely related to its northern neighbor Sudan. Decades of war between these areas, from the 1950s onwards, have resulted in up… Read More »
Sudan is a country located in Northern Africa. With the capital city of Khartoum, Sudan has a population of 43,849,271 based on a recent census from COUNTRYAAH. Since Sudan gained independence from British colonial power in 1956, the country was governed mainly by a Muslim, Arab central government in the north. Tensions between the regime… Read More »
Swaziland is a country located in Southern Africa. With the capital city of Mbabane, Swaziland has a population of 1,163,491 based on a recent census from COUNTRYAAH. Ever since Swaziland gained independence from colonial power Britain in 1968, the country’s history has been characterized by fierce contradictions between royalist traditionalists and groups that want to… Read More »
Tanzania is a country located in Eastern Africa. With the capital city of DDodoma, Tanzania has a population of 59,734,229 based on a recent census from COUNTRYAAH. Tanzania was formed in 1964 as a union between Tanganyika on the mainland and the Zanzibar archipelago. A year later, the country became a one-party state, with “socialism… Read More »
Togo is a country located in Western Africa. With the capital city of Lome, Togo has a population of 8,278,735 based on a recent census from COUNTRYAAH. Togo’s modern history has been characterized by Etienne (Gnassingbé) Eyadéma. With the support of the military, he ruled the country dictatorially from 1967 (in practice 1963) until his… Read More »
Tunisia is a country located in Northern Africa. With the capital city of Tunis, Tunisia has a population of 11,818,630 based on a recent census from COUNTRYAAH. Independence efforts in Tunisia during the first decades of the 20th century resulted in the French giving the area self-government after the Second World War. By the mid-1950s,… Read More »
Uganda is a country located in Eastern Africa. With the capital city of Kampala, Uganda has a population of 45,741,018 based on a recent census from COUNTRYAAH. At independence in 1962, Uganda was a relatively rich country with fertile land and some industry, but politically it was fragmented. During its first ten years, the country… Read More »
Zambia is a country located in Eastern Africa. With the capital city of Lusaka, Zambia has a population of 18,383,966 based on a recent census from COUNTRYAAH. Zambia became independent from the British colonial power in 1964. The country’s first president was Kenneth Kaunda, who led the Socialist-oriented United National Independence Party (in English abbreviated… Read More »
Zimbabwe is a country located in Eastern Africa. With the capital city of Harare, Zimbabwe has a population of 14,862,935 based on a recent census from COUNTRYAAH. After independence in 1980, the government, led by Zanu-PF and Robert Mugabe, initially invested in political reconciliation and economic development. But the contradictions soon intensified and a civil… Read More »
Located at the southern tip of the African continent, South Africa has an area of 1,219,912 km2. It is bordered by Namibia to the northwest, Botswana and Zimbabwe to the north, Mozambique and Swaziland to the northeast, the Indian Ocean to the east and south, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. The most important… Read More »
Egypt is a northern African country. Located in the northeast corner of the African continent and still covering part of Asia (Sinai peninsula), it has an area of 1 001 450 km 2 . It is limited to the east by Israel, the Gulf of Aqaba and the Red Sea, to the south by Sudan,… Read More »
It is the second largest continent. It has an area of 30,217,000 km2 and occupies 1/5 of the terrestrial soil. Crossed by the equator, the African continent stretches 8000 km, from north to south, and 7360 km, from east to west. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to… Read More »
According to Baglib, Carthage, a quiet suburb of the capital Tunis built up with prestigious villas, is basking in the rays of its former glory. Most come here for the sole purpose of seeing the ruins of the ancient city, whose name alone terrified the entire Mediterranean. The history of Carthage, the mighty capital of… Read More »
The coronavirus pandemic has affected Mali relatively little. Therefore, even the economic statistics of this year’s first quarter are hardly affected by this crisis. Malian economic activity generally fluctuates mainly with the rise and fall of the price of gold and prices of agricultural commodities. In the export of goods, the already mentioned gold dominates… Read More »
Bulawayo (Zimbabwe) According to babyinger, Bulawayo is the second largest city in Zimbabwe. It is a commercial, industrial and tourist center. The surroundings of Bulawayo are more interesting, however, in the city itself there are several museums worth visiting. One of them is the National Museum of Zimbabwe History. The museum’s collections are presented by… Read More »