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population: 955.2 million, the second most populated continent, with 14.3% of the world's population. Only 37% of Africans live in urban environments, making it the least urbanized continent.
size: 12 million square miles, 23% 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: 22.5 million people in Sub-Sahran Africa are infected with HIV/AIDS, which is the leading cause of death there. 68% of adults and 90% of children infected with the disease live in this region, which has 11.4 million AIDS orphans. 3 out of 4 AIDS related deaths occur in Sub-Saharan Africa. 90% of the world's
malaria cases occur in tropical Africa, killing 700,000 children a 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 50 million people. Most North Africans are Muslim and speak Arabic. South of the Sahara, religions also include Christianity and indigenous beliefs. Syncretism, combining Christianity with indigenous religions and superstitions, is common.
economy: About a third of Africans live on the equivalent of one US dollar a day or less.
last updated 6/11/08 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 |
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| CC MAGAZINE ARTICLES: AFRICA |
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 ...
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South Africa—Issue 27
Demitri Nikiforos opened his Bible to teach at the homeless shelter on the poor side of Cape Town, South Africa. After graduating from Calvary Chapel Bible College in Murrieta ...
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South Africa—Issue 26
Spreading like a deathly shadow through South Africa, HIV/AIDS has left thousands of children orphaned or victimized in horrific ways. The Lord Jesus Christ is using His church to rescue ...
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South Africa—Issue 26
Julian Duguid and his wife, Monica, surveyed the popular surfing spot in South Africa where Pastor Kirk Cottrell died nearly four years ago. Ostriches and baboons moved lazily along the wide expanse ...
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Uganda—Issue 25
“The children’s horror always began at night — being abducted from their homes, many of them forced to kill their own family members,” related Pastor Ken Graves, his normally deep, booming voice ...
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Uganda—Issue 25
Steven Curtis Chapman kneels in front of 16-year-old Killiam James and slowly shares through a translator the words of the song he’s about to play. “What can wash away my sin? Nothing but the blood of ...
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Uganda—Issue 25
Since God first called Kerry Hasenbalg to fulfill His command in James 1:27, to “visit orphans and widows in their trouble”—not only has she visited them, she has brought their plight before those who can do ...
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Kenya—Issue 18
CC Delaware County traveled to Africa to serve the impoverished, but found themselves on the receiving end of abundant ...
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Nigeria—Issue 15
The final night of the Nigerian crusade in Agbor had attracted a crowd of 3,000. Among those attending was an 18-year-old man who had been arrested earlier ...
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Sudan—Issue 15
“You are welcome to come. You can share your message with anyone you like and they are free to believe whatever they want,” Sudanese President Omar Bashir told Pastor Gary Kusunoki ...
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Sudan—Issue 13
A Ugandan police officer tries to stop Wes Bentley as he hands out bread to a group of young people who are in a drug-induced stupor. They live in a partially burning ...
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Uganda—Issue 10
Despite the lack of running water, electricity, or phone service, Saving Grace Children’s Village compound is a place of peace in northern Uganda. That tranquility was shattered ...
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Sudan—Issue 7
With the predawn sun streaking the clouds, the African bush is formless and black. The sounds of men waking up, stretching, and greeting each other in a blend of Arabic and English, are the only noises heard ...
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Uganda—Issue 7
Refugees from the horrors of Islamic terror in Sudan can find Saving Grace in the middle of their refugee camp in Uganda.
A group of missionaries from Calvary Chapel Saving Grace in Yorba Linda, California, in cooperation ...
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Sudan—Issue 6
Trembling ground startled Senior Pastor Gary Kusunoki from his sleep on January 17, 1994. Turning on the television, he and the world learned that Southern California had ...
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