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WORLD—AFRICA


The highlighted countries of Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Sudan, and Uganda have been featured in CC Magazine articles.

population: 975.3 million, the second most populated continent, with 14.5% of the world's population. Only 38.7% of Africans live in urban environments, making it the least urbanized continent, but African cities are growing rapidly.

size: 11.7 million square miles, 20.4% of the earth's total land area, the second largest continent. Included with the mainland are 6 island nations, such as Madagascar, the 4th largest island in the world.

health: 22 million people in Sub-Sahran Africa are infected with HIV/AIDS, which is the leading cause of death there. Of all the people in the world infected with this disease, 66% of the adults and 90% of the children live in this region. Sub-Saharan Africa has 11.6 million AIDS orphans, and 75% of AIDS related deaths occur here. 91% of the world's malaria deaths occur in Africa, killing 801,000 Africans each year.

culture: Over 2,000 languages are spoken in Africa. Almost all Africans are multilingual out of necessity. The most common indigenous language in Africa is Swahili, spoken by 10% of the population. Most North Africans are Muslim and speak Arabic. Arabic is the most widely spoken language in Africa, with 176 Africans speaking it. South of the Sahara, religions also include Christianity and indigenous beliefs. Syncretism, combining Christianity with indigenous religions and superstitions, is common.

economy: About 50% of Sub-Saharan Africans live on the equivalent of one US dollar a day or less.

last updated 3/3/09 sources

countries:

Algeria	Lesotho
Angola	Liberia
Benin	Libya
Botswana	Madagascar
Burkina Faso	Malawi
Burundi	Mali
Cape Verde	Mauritania
Central African Republic	Mauritius
Chad	Morocco
Comoros	Mozambique
Democratic Republic of the Congo	Namibia
Republic of the Congo	Niger
Côte d'Ivoire	Nigeria
Djibouti	Rwanda
Egypt	São Tomé and Príncipe
Equatorial Guinea	Senegal
Eritrea	Seychelles
Ethiopia	Sierra Leone
Gabon	Somalia
The Gambia	South Africa
Ghana	Sudan
Guinea	Swaziland
Guinea-Bissau	Tanzania
Gabon	Togo
The Gambia	Tunisia
Ghana	Uganda
Guinea	Western Sahara
Guinea-Bissau	Zambia
Kenya	Zimbabwe

CC MAGAZINE ARTICLES: AFRICA

Nigeria—Issue 36
The 23-year-old Nigerian walked past the high, barbed wire-topped walls of the old Russian military barracks that had become his home—the Debrecen Refugee Camp in Hungary, where he lived with more than 1,000 people ... download PDF

Kenya Update—Issue 36
While post-election violence in Kenya has dwindled in recent weeks, Calvary Chapel missionaries there report that believers are still busy ministering and sharing Jesus as the only real peace amidst the tense calm in the East African country. ... download PDF

Crisis in Kenya—Issue 35
Calvary Chapel believers ministered to ravaged Nairobi communities after riots broke out over recent elections. Four weeks after the uprising began, violence had left nearly 850 people dead and driven more than 250,000 ... download PDF

Africa Conference—Issue 31
While civil wars, famine, and infectious disease plague the African continent, Calvary Chapel believers have been spreading the hope of Jesus there for more than a decade. At the first-ever Calvary Chapel Africa ... download PDF

Kampala, Uganda—Issue 27
“Not only was I surprised at the response to the message, but I was actually a little scared,” Pastor Ray Bentley of Maranatha Chapel, CA, laughingly recalled the invitation he gave to receive Christ at last year’s Crusade in Kampala ... download PDF

Darfur, Sudan—Issue 27
In a Muslim-against-Muslim conflict that has killed thousands of unarmed villagers and children in Darfur, Sudan, many people have fled from their native land and their ...