According to Christopher Ehret ( 2002: 35 – 36 ), Proto-Afroasiatic was spoken c. 11, 000 BC at the latest and possibly as early as c. 16, 000 BC.

An the other hand, the armed forces of the MPLA ( now the official armed forces of the Angolan state ) and of UNITA fought each other until the leader of UNITA, Jonas Savimbi, was killed in action, in 2002.

In 2002 one was lost during the civil war with UNITA forces.

From the mid-1980s through at least 1992, the United States was the primary source of military and other support for the UNITA rebel movement, which was led from its creation through 2002 by Jonas Savimbi.

The Intelligent Mechatronics Lab, directed by Hiroshi Kobayashi at the Tokyo University of Science, has developed an android head called Saya, which was exhibited at Robodex 2002 in Yokohama, Japan.

From 2002 to July 2008 under Turkmen calendar reform, the month of August was named after Alp Arslan.

The electricity distribution system was privatized in 2002.

According to estimates by the National Statistical Survey, the rate of labor emigration was twice as higher in 2001 and 2002.

Furthermore, in 2002, Bligh's great-great-grandson Lord Clifton, the heir-apparent to the Earldom of Darnley, argued that the Ashes urn should not be returned to Australia because it belonged to his family and was given to the MCC only for safe keeping.

In 2002, a theoretical attack, termed the " XSL attack ", was announced by Nicolas Courtois and Josef Pieprzyk, purporting to show a weakness in the AES algorithm due to its simple description .< ref >

* In 2002, Fleming was named in the BBC's list of the 100 Greatest Britons following a nationwide vote.

In 2002, O ' Donohue launched a court action that argued the Act of Settlement violates the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, but the case was dismissed by the court, which found that, as the Act of Settlement is part of the Canadian constitution, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms does not have supremacy over it.

Every game during the 2002 season was sold out.

Vick, who saw minimal playing time in 2001, playing backup and learning the system under then-starting quarterback Chris Chandler, was designated starting quarterback for the 2002 season.

The 2002 season was the Falcons ' first in the more geographically-accurate NFC South upon NFL realignment.

A beta test version of AIX 5L for IA-64 systems was released, but according to documents released in the SCO v. IBM lawsuit, less than forty licenses for the finished Monterey Unix were ever sold before the project was terminated in 2002.

Remarkably " Aster " was also the name given to a Dutch Supercomputer much later, in 2002.

18-bis Legge 91 / 1981 mainly for the abnormal signing in 2002 – 03 season, ( such as Davide Bombardini for € 11 million account value, which the flopped player exchange boosted 2002 – 03 season result ) and the tax payment of 2002 – 03 season was rescheduled.

In 1998 the 2, 000th DB7 was built, and in 2002 the 6, 000th, exceeding production of all previous DB models.

The WSF became a periodic meeting: in 2002 and 2003 it was held again in Porto Alegre and became a rallying point for worldwide protest against the American invasion of Iraq.

The first European Social Forum ( ESF ) was held in November 2002 in Florence.

In September 2002, estimated number of 1500-2000 people gathered to demonstrate against the Annual Meetings of IMF and World Bank in the streets of Washington D. c. Protesting groups included the Anti-Capitalist Convergence, the Mobilization for Global Justice.

Botswana, like many nations in southern Africa, suffers from a high AIDS infection rates, estimated in a 2002 UN report to be 38. 8 % for adults.

A 2002 report estimated there were 5, 000 to 12, 000 blue whales worldwide, located in at least five groups.

In 2003 GDP was estimated to have grown by 2 percent, a slight improvement over 2002, the last year for which firm figures are available, when GDP expanded by 1. 8 percent in real terms to about US $ 600 million.

An estimated $ 4. 4 billion of aid entered the nation from 2002 to 2004.

In 2002, this figure was estimated to have declined further to 60 %.

Gabon ’ s proven oil reserves were estimated at in 2002, and its proven natural gas reserves were estimated at.

Greenlanders owned an estimated 30, 000 radios, as of 2002.

However, GDP per capita — amounting to $ 425 in FY 2002 — will continue to decline as population growth is estimated at 1. 3 % p. a.

* 2002 – Mount Nyiragongo erupts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, displacing an estimated 400, 000 people.

The downward trend continued through 2002, when the estimated population bottomed out at 14. 9 million, and then resumed its growth.

By 2002, the United Nations estimated that three million people, or one in five people of the Mano River Union countries, were displaced.

The telecommunications in Mayotte consist of an estimated 10, 000 main telephone lines in use as of 2002, and an estimated 48, 100 cellular phones in use as of 2004.

Morocco suffers both from unemployment ( 9. 6 % in 2008 ), and a large external debt estimated at around $ 20 billion, or half of GDP in 2002.

As of July 2002, the population of Nauru was estimated at 12, 329.

According to the Colombian government, FARC-EP had an estimated 6, 000 – 8, 000 members in 2008, down from 16, 000 in 2001, having lost much of their fighting force since President Álvaro Uribe took office in 2002.

It is estimated that the year 2002 marked the beginning of the digital age for information storage, which means that this years marked the date where human kind started to store more information on digital, than on analog storage devices.

In 2002, the anthropologist John H. Moore estimated that a population of 150 – 180 would allow normal reproduction for 60 to 80 generations — equivalent to 2000 years.

" In 2002, writer Mark Evanier estimated that Aragonés had written and drawn more than 12, 000 gag cartoons for Mad alone.

The population at the 2002 census was 9, 561, and the population is estimated to reach 10, 544 in July 2011.

Critics have accused Arafat of mass corruption, secretly amassing a personal wealth estimated to be USD $ 1. 3 billion by 2002 despite the degrading economic conditions of the Palestinians.

On 13 July 2002, Fatboy Slim performed the second of his free, open air concerts on Brighton Beach, named The Big Beach Boutique II, Although organisers expected a crowd of around 60, 000 people, the event instead attracted an estimated 250, 000 who crammed the promenade and beach between Brighton's piers.