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The population density of Africa as of 2000. North Africa (sometimes Northern Africa) is a region encompassing the northern portion of the African continent. There is no singularly accepted scope for the region, and it is sometimes defined as stretching from the Atlantic shores of the Western Sahara in the west, to Egypt and Sudan's Red Sea coast in the east.
Horn of Africa: Ismaïl Omar Guelleh: President of Djibouti: 8 May 1999 Abdoulkader Kamil Mohamed: Prime Minister of Djibouti: 1 April 2013 Egypt: Northeast Africa [b] Abdel Fattah el-Sisi: President of Egypt: 8 June 2014 Mostafa Madbouly: Prime Minister of Egypt: 14 June 2018 Iraq: Fertile Crescent: Abdul Latif Rashid: President of Iraq: 13 ...
The politics of Africa have been blighted by severe problems with corruption and nepotism, coups d'état, and civil war. Corruption is a severe problem in much of the continent, with the vast majority of African states ranking below a five out of ten in Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index. Five of the ten most corrupt ...
The state of Democracy in Middle East and North Africa can be comparatively assessed [1] according to various definitions of democracy. [2] De jure democracies in the Middle East and North Africa are according to system of government: Parliamentary republic: Iraq, [3] Israel, Lebanon [4] Presidential republic: Syria, Tunisia, Turkey
The Middle East–North Africa region comprises 20 countries and territories with an estimated Muslim population of 315 million or about 23% of the world's Muslim population. [47] The term "MENA" is often defined in part in relation to majority-Muslim countries located in the region, although several nations in the region are not Muslim ...
Malta and parts of France, Italy, Portugal, and Spain are located on the African continental plate, some considerably closer to the African mainland than the European mainland but, politically, are generally considered to be European by convention. Egypt, although extending into Asia through the Sinai Peninsula, is considered an African state.
The Great Mosque of Djenné, constructed in a Sudano-Sahelian architectural style, located in Mali. In the 7th century CE, North Africa was conquered by Muslim Arabs, providing the context in which Islam would eventually spread throughout sub-Saharan African populations—particularly those in East and West Africa—in succeeding centuries through their subsequent exposure to the Islamized ...
A map of Africa showing the continent's political systems: three monarchies (in red) and republics (in blue).. Monarchy was the prevalent form of government in the history of Africa, where self-governing states, territories, or nations existed in which supreme power resided with an individual who was recognized as the head of state. [1]