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New sources of oil are being located in sub-Saharan Africa more frequently than anywhere else. Of all new sources of oil, 1 ⁄ 3 are in sub-Saharan Africa. [174] Sub-Saharan Africa is a key player in the global minerals market, producing over 70%of the world's cobalt and hosting about 50%of its reserves in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...
The Maghreb is a region of northwest Africa encompassing the coastlands and Atlas Mountains of Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia. The Sahara Desert is the massive sparsely populated region in North Africa that contains the world's largest hot deserts; Sub-Saharan Africa is the area of the African continent which lies south of the Sahara.
Toggle Sub-Saharan Africa subsection. 2.1 Eastern Africa. 2.2 Middle ... The following is an alphabetical list of subregions in the United Nations geoscheme for ...
The Sahel region (/ s ə ˈ h ɛ l /; from Arabic ساحل (sāḥil) ' coast, shore '), or Sahelian acacia savanna, is a biogeographical region in Africa.It is the transition zone between the more humid Sudanian savannas to its south and the drier Sahara to the north.
The total fertility rate (children per woman) for Sub-Saharan Africa is 4.7 as of 2018, the highest in the world. [224] All countries in sub-Saharan Africa had TFRs (average number of children) above replacement level in 2019 and accounted for 27.1% of global livebirths. [225] In 2021, sub-Saharan Africa accounted for 29% of global births. [226]
As Rwanda’s first ever World Heritage Sites enter the list, UNESCO has put forward a plan to help other nations nominate their national treasures.
Sub-Saharan Africa. Eastern Africa; Middle Africa; Southern Africa; Western Africa; by geography: North Africa (Also known as Saharan Africa) Maghreb (AKA Northwest Africa, also including Mauritania, which most geographers consider as a part of West Africa; some geographers consider Libya as a part of Northeast Africa and Western Sahara as a ...
The Ghana Stock Exchange is the fifth largest on continental Africa and 3rd largest in sub-saharan Africa with a market capitalisation of GH¢ 57.2 billion or CN¥180.4 billion in 2012 with the South Africa JSE Limited as first. [123] The Ghana Stock Exchange was the second best performing stock exchange in sub-saharan Africa in 2013. [124]