The United States was engaged in a military attack on a peaceful, orderly people governed by a regime that had proved itself the most pro-Western and anti-Communist within any of the new nations -- the only place in Africa, moreover, where a productive relationship between whites and blacks had apparently been achieved.

To Africa, he sent his most trusted adviser, his brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy, on a good-will mission to the Ivory Coast.

The most widely spoken Afroasiatic language is Arabic ( including all its colloquial varieties ), with 230 million native speakers, spoken mostly in the Middle East and North Africa.

The most notable example has been the objection of many provinces of the Communion ( particularly in Africa and Asia ) to the changing role of homosexuals in the North American churches ( e. g., by blessing same-sex unions and ordaining and consecrating gays and lesbians in same-sex relationships ), and to the process by which changes were undertaken.

Allium is indigenous to most of North America, Eurasia, and North Africa.

He received the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize for his philosophy of " Reverence for Life ", expressed in many ways, but most famously in founding and sustaining the Albert Schweitzer Hospital in Lambaréné, now in Gabon, west central Africa ( then French Equatorial Africa ).

Extreme poverty is most common in Sub-Saharan Africa.

By the early 1960s, most of East and Central Africa, where the majority of the Ismāʿīlī population on the continent resided including Tanganyika, Kenya, Uganda, Malagasy, Rwanda, Burundi and Zaire, had attained their political independence.

Among the birds most characteristic of Africa are the ostrich and the secretary-bird.

From the most northerly point, Ras ben Sakka in Tunisia, in 37 ° 21 ′ N, to the most southerly point, Cape Agulhas in South Africa, 34 ° 51 ′ 15 ″ S, is a distance approximately of ; from Cape Verde, 17 ° 33 ′ 22 ″ W, the westernmost point, to Ras Hafun in Somalia, 51 ° 27 ′ 52 ″ E, the most easterly projection, is a distance ( also approximately ) of.

With about 6 million native speakers in South Africa, or 13. 3 percent of the population, it is the third most spoken mother tongue in the country.

One of the best-known and most successful Lions team toured South Africa in 1974 under the esteemed Irish forward Willie John McBride.

The most recent tour visited South Africa in May – July 2009, and before that the Lions toured New Zealand in 2005.

Lara also holds the test record of scoring most number of runs in a single over in a Test match, when he scored 28 runs off an over by Robin Peterson of South Africa in 2003.

* Lara holds the world record of scoring most runs in a single over ( 28 runs against left-arm spinner RJ Peterson of South Africa ) in Test cricket.

As the largest and most spectacular forest antelope, the western / lowland bongo is both an important flagship species for protected areas such as national parks, and a major trophy species which has been taken in increasing numbers in Central Africa by sport hunters during the 1990s.

Along with the Rothschild Giraffe, the eastern bongo is arguably one of the most threatened large mammals in Africa with recent estimates numbering less than 140 animals ; below a minimum sustainable viable population.

In particular, the British Museum ’ s collections covering the period AD 300 to 1100 are among the largest and most comprehensive in the world, extending from Spain to the Black Sea and from North Africa to Scandinavia.

The British Museum houses one of the world's most comprehensive collections of Ethnographic material from Africa, Oceania and the Americas, representing the cultures of indigenous peoples throughout the world.

This species of flea is the primary Vector ( epidemiology ) | vector for the transmission of Yersinia pestis the organism responsible for bubonic plague in most plague epidemic s in Asia, Africa, and South America.

Another group emigrated to British-ruled Kenya, from where most returned to South Africa during the 1930s, while a third group under the leadership of General Ben Viljoen emigrated to Mexico and to New Mexico and Texas in south-western USA.

Before considering more recent activities, we should note another important aspect of demography in Belgian Africa.

Canadian companies are increasingly playing important roles in Latin America, Southeast Asia, and Africa.

Lake Chad is the second largest lake in west Africa and is one of the most important wetlands on the continent.

: Strategic location 500 km from west coast of Africa near major north-south sea routes ; important communications station ; important sea and air refueling site.

It was especially important for preserving in its libraries manuscripts of Greek and Latin authors throughout a period when instability and disorder caused their mass-destruction in western Europe and north Africa: On the city's fall, thousands of these were brought by refugees to Italy, and played a key part in stimulating the Renaissance, and the transition to the modern world.

He took a major part in several important international missions in the Middle East and North Africa.

The trade with Africa offered several possibilities to set up trading posts or factories, an important starting point for negotiations.

The second most important area of immigration to Italy has always been the neighbouring North Africa ( in particular, Morocco, Egypt and Tunisia ), with soaring arrivals as a consequence of the Arab Spring.

Age-grade groupings of various sorts were common in the Bantu tribal culture of the day, and indeed are still important in much of Africa.

Liberia became again an important Cold War ally of the U. S .. Liberia served to protect important U. S. facilities and investments, and to counter the perceived spread of Soviet influence in Africa.

Leakey ) ( 7 August 1903 – 1 October 1972 ) was a British archaeologist and naturalist whose work was important in establishing human evolutionary development in Africa.

Malawians were viewed as important workers in the South African mines due to their " skills, work discipline and lack of militancy " From 1988 to 1992, around 13, 000 Malawian migrant laborers were forcefully repatriated out of South Africa.

Divination remains an important aspect of the lives of the people of contemporary Africa, especially amongst the usually rural, socially traditionalistic segments of its population.

As Brazzaville had been the capital of the large federation of French Equatorial Africa, it had an important workforce and lots of trade unions.

An important point to be made about the Cape Colony under responsible government was that it was the only state in southern Africa ( and one of very few in the world at the time ) to have a non-racial system of voting.

Sultan Ibrahim's son Ahmed Yusuf succeeded him and was one of the most important figures in 19th century East Africa, receiving tribute from Omani governors and creating alliances with important Muslim families on the East African coast.

Its geographic location makes it an important link between Europe, Africa, and the New World.

Schoemansdal, a village at the foot of the Zoutpansberg, was the most important settlement of the district, and the most advanced outpost in European occupation at that time in South Africa.

Age-grade groupings of various sorts were common in the Bantu culture of the day, and indeed are still important in much of Africa.

It played an important role in increasing European colonisation of Africa.