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Africa English
Meaning Africa meaning
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Africa
Africa
Synonyms Africa synonyms
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Topics Africa topics
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Examples Africa examples
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Simple sentences
Africa is a continent; Greenland is not.
Elephants live in Asia and Africa.
How many elephants are left in Africa?
Mali is one of the poorest countries in Subsaharan Africa.
The greatest number came from Europe, but many also came from Latin America, Asia, Africa, Australia, and Canada.
The war in Europe was carried into Africa.
Bob Johnson tried to make people realize the seriousness of the situation in Africa.
Hemingway enjoyed big game hunting in Africa.
Africa is exporting beef to Europe.
Africa was once called the Dark Continent.
Have you ever been to Africa?
A lot of people in Africa go hungry.
Many children die of starvation in Africa.
They have had no rain in Africa for more than a month.
Fork-users are mainly in Europe, North America, and Latin America; chopstick-users in eastern Asia and finger-users in Africa, the Middle East, Indonesia, and India.
The virus cut down many elephants in Africa.
In all my career as a travel agent, I never visited Africa.
The Union of South Africa has had racial problems in recent years.
Movie subtitles
In 1 415, Zheng He reached the coast of East Africa.
The Portuguese had the brilliant idea that if they could find an alternative route, all the way around the coast of Africa, round the Cape of Good Hope and into the Indian Ocean. then this business could be theirs.
When he and his fellow sailors rounded the Cape of Good Hope, the southernmost tip of Africa, they weren't wondering, as the Chinese had, if they could find some exotic animals to take home to their king.
Africa.
Wow, I can't believe Kevin is going to Africa for two years.
You're heading. to Africa.
Well, good luck in Africa, boys! I've never been, But I hear it's a HOOT!
Africa. is nothing like The Lion King!
I'm not a follower anymore No, now I am Africa!
And I am Africa!
We are Africa We are deepest, darkest Africa!
Africans are African But we are Africa!
And you two, Elder Price and Elder Cunningham, you are the most successful missionaries in all of Africa.
You'll have your fill. This is North Africa.
Let's leave for Africa, for the Regency of Algiers over which the French flag now flies.
So India-bound boats won't need to go around Africa.
If he's just returned from Africa, he may need 2 baths.
In the dark forests of Africa, you dared all dangers.
Before we start the musical program, Captain Spaulding will tell us about his trip to Africa.
Friends, I'm going to tell you of that great, mysterious, wonderful Africa.
After 15 days on the water and 6 on the boat, we reached Africa.
The principal animals in Africa are moose, elks and Knights of Pythias.
When I departed from the natives in Africa, they gave me a gift.
South Africa has my sympathies.
I pay the highest wages in Africa.
It was in Africa that the Cape buffalo gave me this.
That's a perfect criticism of Africa.
South Africa.
Egypt has the best military power in Africa.
And I'm taking her to Africa!
He finished his service in Africa. and his superiors had not been lenient at the time of his discharge. he'd still be serving time in a penal battalion. and would not be here today.
There are superstitions in Haiti that the natives brought here from Africa.
They are like amulets from Africa or Oceania.
You gallivanting in Africa, and me stopping at home.
It's 6,000 miles to South Africa.
Where is Africa?
What do you mean, where's Africa?
But he's stayin' in Africa, so I bought it from him cheap.
Where is Africa, Mr. Bridges?
News and current affairs
The donors promised to double aid to Africa by 2010, but are still far off track.
This is particularly relevant as emerging development partners, especially the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa), offer new kinds of aid packages that incorporate investment and non-financial assistance.
At the same time, Bush's emphasis on a one-dimensional, militarized approach to global problems has fueled unrest and instability throughout the Islamic world, leading to increased terrorism in Turkey, North Africa, Saudi Arabia, and Southeast Asia.
While 3,000 innocent people died in the US on September 11, 2001, in Africa 8,000 innocent children die every day from malaria.
The problem is that most of Africa is too poor to mobilize the methods of prevention (bed nets) and treatments (anti-malarial medicines) that could save millions of children every year.
The US spends more on Iraq each day than it does on Africa's malaria in a year.
So we must hope that the World Cup in South Africa in 2010 will finally bring greater global parity.
In northern Ethiopia, as in much of Africa, the rain cycle has changed markedly in recent years.
Much of arid sub-Saharan Africa, notably in the Sahel (the region just south of the Sahara desert), has experienced a pronounced drop in rainfall over the past quarter-century.
Help for poor countries in Africa and elsewhere to adapt to climate change should not be described as charity or aid, but rather as compensation for damages being imposed on the poorest people on the planet.
Now that the worst has, indeed, proven true, Ethiopia and all of East Africa will need to learn to live without the stabilizing influence of its great dictator-diplomat.
Once a basket-case associated in the world's eyes only with famine and drought, Ethiopia has become one of Africa's largest economies - and without the benefit of gold or oil.
More important, Meles put Addis Ababa on the map as the home of the African Union, and as a capital where Africa's worst problems could be discussed in a pragmatic manner, unburdened by colonial grudges.
In the Horn of Africa, there is no leader of his stature who could ensure the stability and strong governance that the region so desperately needs.
Meanwhile, in about 2005, I was in South Africa with a small group advising former President Thabo Mbeki and his government about its IT policy.
With serious management of the new funds, food production in Africa will soar.
Peasant farmers in Africa, Haiti, and other impoverished regions currently plant their crops without the benefit of high-yield seed varieties and fertilizers.
There is now widespread agreement on the need for increased donor financing for small farmers (those with two hectares or less of land, or impoverished pastoralists), which is especially urgent in Africa.
And South Africa's last apartheid leader, F. W. de Klerk, was initially perceived as just another apologist for the system - hardly the man to free Nelson Mandela and oversee the end of white minority rule.
Is Burma, like South Africa under de Klerk, truly poised to emerge from a half-century of self-imposed isolation?
And can Aung San Suu Kyi, the heroic opposition leader, and Thein Sein, Burma's new president, engineer a political transition as skillfully and peacefully as Mandela and de Klerk did for South Africa in the early 1990's?
No one should rush to judgment yet, but Thein Sein's decisions, at least so far, are beginning to resemble those of South Africa's de Klerk when he initiated his country's reform process.
That seems to be as true now of European politics as it has been of economics in parts of Africa and Asia.
Witness the upheaval in North Africa and the Middle East.
And now that China, too, is beginning to lose its comparative advantage in labor-intensive industries, other developing countries - especially in Africa - are set to take its place.
Until recently, few believed that Africa, too, could become a center for modern manufacturing.
As investors learn more about Africa, they will increasingly see what it has to offer.
Indeed, the cost of labor in Africa is competitive enough that Ethiopia could attract companies from countries as poor as Bangladesh.