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...were so bold as to check a map of the Africa Continent, one would find that these two countries are separated by four others--Cote D'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo and the Republic of Benin--and more than 1,000 miles. As far as we know, no single Sub-Saharan African culture ever covered so vast an area. I will, however, admit that 'Liberia' at least sounds similar to 'Nigeria...
Despite the difficulties, the scientists made some myth-shattering discoveries. One of them jumps right off the book's cover: a color map of world genetic variation has Africa on one end of the spectrum and Australia on the other. Because Australia's aborigines and sub-Saharan Africans share such superficial traits as skin color and body shape, they were widely assumed to be closely related. But their genes tell a different story. Of all humans, Australians are most distant from the Africans and most closely resemble their neighbors, the southeast Asians. What the eye sees as racial differences -- between...
History 1902. Alcohol in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1850 to the Present...
...United Nations' health agency estimates the number of full-blown AIDS cases around the world rose from 2.5 million to 4 million during the past year. According to a new report from the World Health Organization, sub-Saharan Africa had the highest number of AIDS patients at 2.5 million, while cases in Asia spread eightfold, from 30,000 to 250,000--faster than anywhere else in the world. Worse, the WHO thinks between 30 million and 40 million people will have HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, by the year 2000.parpar
Long before Rwanda's descent into chaos, Western donors had grown exhausted by the problems that beset sub-Saharan Africa: the ceaseless wars, ethnic violence, political turmoil, massive poverty and persistent famine. The region leads the world in the number of refugees and people displaced within their own country's borders, surpassing South Asia, North Africa and the Middle East combined...