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Hunted Facts on africa
- U.S. foreign assistance to Africa is directed to helping African governments, institutions, and African-based organizations incorporate good governance principles and innovative approaches to health, education, economic growth, agriculture, and environment programs.
- USAID programs and activities in Africa in these sectors aim to ensure that development assistance supports the overall goal of transformational diplomacy-to help build sustained and well governed states that respond to the needs of their people, reduce widespread poverty, and conduct themselves responsibly in the international system.
- Through the Africa Education Initiative, effort will aim to increase access to quality education by supporting training of new teachers and providing textbooks and scholarships for children.
- Africa has become an attractive and profitable dumping ground for nations and arm manufacturers eager to get rid of weapon stocks made superfluous by the end of the Cold War or by technological developments.
- Oil, which could potentially have allowed Nigeria to be one of the wealthiest countries in Africa has instead led it to become one of the poorest.
- One conflict in Africa that has taken a long time to get appropriate media attention, with regards to its severity, is that of the conflict of ordinary African people with HIV and AIDS.
- Ancient Africa lay to the west of Egypt, while "Asia" was used to refer to Anatolia and lands to the east.
- Africa's largest country is Sudan, and its smallest country is the Seychelles, an archipelago off the east coast.
- Africa is the oldest inhabited territory on earth, with the human species originating from the continent.
- There is no doubt that there is to be found among the nations of Africa, apart from Christianity and Mohammedanism, a religion, a belief in a higher, living, and personal principle, implying on man's part the duty of recognizing it by means of some kind of worship.
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