Gambia 2016
Yearbook 2016 The Gambia. In April, a dozen members of the United Democratic Party’s (UDP) youth federation held a peaceful demonstration in the capital Banjul demanding political reform and President…
CONFLICTS IN THE YOUNG STATES
Belgium hastily released its Congo colony into freedom in 1960. The result was chaotic turmoil and tendencies to split, which only subsided after 1965. Portugal, on the other hand, tried to bind its colonies even more closely to the mother country as overseas provinces. It was only after the revolution of 1974 that it renounced its colonial claims just as hastily. As a result, a civil war developed in Angola.
Because of its apartheid policy, with which the white minority discriminated against the black majority for decades, South Africa came under pressure from the world public. For a long time it did not follow the withdrawal of the mandate over South West Africa (Namibia). After bloody unrest in the 1980s, apartheid was abolished in 1990 and Namibia was given independence. In 1994 Nelson Mandela became the first black president after the first free elections.
In 1993, Ethiopia had to accept the secession of Eritrea, which subsequently led to warlike conflicts.
With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the bloody proxy conflicts that had been waged between 1960 and 1989 by the USA and the USSR in Africa also ended. This enabled democratization tendencies to emerge in some African countries in the course of the “ good governance ” discussion in the 1990s. Nevertheless, to this day there are no other continents as many armed conflicts and internally displaced persons as in Africa.
There were profound changes in North Africa, where in the course of the Arab Spring there were bloody clashes and political upheavals in Libya, Egypt and Tunisia as well as unrest, mass protests and government reshuffles in Sudan, Algeria, Morocco and Mauritania.
The youngest state is the Republic of South Sudan, which gained independence from Sudan in 2011 after decades of civil war. The political status of the Western Sahara territory is currently unclear. The UN is pushing for a referendum to decide on independence or affiliation with Morocco. The Spanish cities of Ceuta and Melilla in North Africa are relics of the colonial era.
Africa – population
The population density in the different regions of Africa reflects the possibilities of economic use. A large part of the continent consists of arid areas that are hardly suitable for agriculture and are therefore extremely sparsely populated. In contrast, for example, are the river oases in the arid regions, impressively recognizable by the Nile oasis. More humid mountainous countries with partially fertile soils from volcanic ash such as Ethiopia, Rwanda or Burundi are among the more densely populated regions. The same applies to the conveniently located, partly also climatically favored coastal areas in North or West Africa. For more information about the continent of Africa, please check topb2bwebsites.com.
Yearbook 2016 The Gambia. In April, a dozen members of the United Democratic Party’s (UDP) youth federation held a peaceful demonstration in the capital Banjul demanding political reform and President…
Yearbook 2016 Gabon. According to countryaah, the current population of Gabon is 2,225,745. Presidential elections were held in August. The outcome was very smooth, and both President Ali Ben Bongo…
Yearbook 2016 Ethiopia. According to countryaah, the current population of Ethiopia is 114,963,599. Ethiopia was shaken during the year by extensive government-critical protests, which were met by violence from security…
Yearbook 2016 Swaziland. According to countryaah, the current population of Eswatini is 1,160,175. The country was plagued by the severe drought in a region that received less rainfall than 35…
Yearbook 2016 Eritrea. The dictatorship regime in Eritrea was subjected to harsh international criticism during the year for the suppression of human rights. In March, the European Parliament demanded the…
Yearbook 2016 Equatorial Guinea. President Teodoro Obiang Nguema, who has ruled since 1979, won the presidential election in April. The election was the first since the constitutional reform in 2011,…
Egypt is a unitary semi-presidential republic. The President of Egypt serves as the head of state and commander in chief of the armed forces. The Prime Minister serves as the…
Yearbook 2016 Djibouti. According to countryaah, the current population of Djibouti is 988,011. Six candidates ran for president in April, but Ismail Omar Guelleh, who has ruled Djibouti since 1999,…
Yearbook 2016 Congo. According to countryaah, the current population of DR Congo is 89,561,414. The political situation in the country was characterized by whether the elections, which were scheduled to…
Yearbook 2016 Comoros. As the constitution stipulates that the presidential post should rotate between the three largest islands, the first round of presidential elections was held only at Ngazidja (Grande…
Yearbook 2016 Chad. According to countryaah, the current population of Chad is 16,425,875. The riots of Boko Haram’s ravages around Lake Chad led to a wave of refugees in the…
Yearbook 2016 Central African Republic. Both the presidential and parliamentary elections held at the end of December 2015 were disputed. In the end, the country’s constitutional court annulled the parliamentary…
Yearbook 2016 Cameroon. According to countryaah, the current population of Cameroon is 26,545,874. The Nigerian Islamist rebel movement Boko Haram continued to spread terror among the people of northern Cameroon,…
Yearbook 2016 Cape Verde. During the year, elections were held for both parliament and the presidential post. The former was organized in March and led to Cape Verde’s African Independence…
Yearbook 2016 Burundi. According to countryaah, the current population of Burundi is 11,890,795. Political turmoil and tensions in the country continued in the wake of President Pierre Nkurunziza’s contentious 2015…
Yearbook 2016 Burkina Faso. President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré, who took office in December 2015, appointed Paul Kaba Thieba, a politically inexperienced economist with a background in the West African…
Yearbook 2016 Botswana. According to thereligionfaqs, Botswana’s crisis economy further deteriorated during the year. The important mining industry was suffering due to low world market prices, and the copper and…
Yearbook 2016 Benin. In March, according to thereligionfaqs, Benin residents went to election to appoint a successor to President Thomas Boni Yayi who could not be re-elected after two terms.…
Yearbook 2016 Angola. Angola became Africa’s largest oil producer during the year. But the Angolan economy was in deep crisis with dramatically declining export earnings as a result of oil…
Yearbook 2016 Algeria.In January, the government presented its draft constitutional amendments that have been discussed for several years. The proposal meant, among other things, that the president may only sit…
Africa is the third largest part of the world with 30 million square kilometers – it makes up around 22 percent of the total country area of the world. It…