Republic of Zambia Current government officials Languages:Bembe 33.4%, Nyanja 14.7%, Tonga 11.4%, Chewa 4.5%, Lozi 5.5%, Nsenga 2.9%, Tumbuka 2.5%, Lunda (North Western) 1.9%, Kaonde 1.8%, Lala 1.8%, Lamba 1.8%, English (official) 1.7%, Luvale 1.5%, Mambwe 1.3%, Namwanga 1.2%...
Along with Ethiopia, Liberia is considered to be one of the only two African countriesnever to have been colonized by European powers during theScramble for Africafrom 1880 to 1900. However, this is disputed as the country was founded by free Black American immigrants in the 1820s and governed...
plans between Botswana and Zambia to build a bridge over the Zambezi River, thereby de facto recognizing a short, but not clearly delimited, Botswana-Zambia boundary in the river; South Africa has placed military units to assist police operations along the border of Lesotho, Zimbabwe, and Mozambi...
the “privileges and clientele-ism” that developed under Silvio Berlusconi, the World Bank still rates Italy as 87th in its global ease of doing business survey – that’s behind the likes of Mongolia, the Bahamas and Zambia. An estimated 120,000 companies went out of business in 2011 ...
The climate is characterized by a rainy season and a dry season whose timing and intensity differ in the various regions. Angola borders Namibia to the south, the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Zambia to the east, and the Republic of Congo to the north. The oil-rich enclave of Cabinda lies...
After 1953, the protectorate was joined for ten years in a federation with Northern Rhodesia and Southern Rhodesia (now Zambia and Zimbabwe) called the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. That federation was opposed by nationalists who advocated political freedom from British rule. After the ...
José Vincente Barbosa du Bocage is rightly known as the ‘Father of Angolan Herpetology’. He was, however, more than just a scientist and for much of his life held multiple positions in government, administration and science, often simultaneously. De Almeida (2011) reviews diverse aspects of ...
January 31, 2022ByAnn MorganinThe storiesTags:book review,books,culture,empire,fiction,history,reading,Zambia2 Comments Some weeks ago, I had an email from R. Like many over the past couple of years, they’d had a tough time and found solace in reading. Having been keen to expand their...
Namibia is bordered on the north by Angola and Zambia, on the east by Botswana, and on the east and south by South Africa. It is for the most part a portion of the high plateau of southern Africa, with a general elevation of from 3,000 to 4,000 ft. Government Republic. History The...
states, including Zambia, Gabon, and 20,000 who fled to Burundi in 2005 and 2006 to escape drought and recriminations from traditional courts investigating the 1994 massacres; the 2005 DROC and Rwanda border verification mechanism to stem rebel actions on both sides of the border remains in ...