The probable answer is that it will do so just as long as Russia can exercise a veto in favor of chaos and until young African nations wake up to the truth that out of false pride they are visiting ruin on Central Africa.

* Cape Verde, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Niger, Togo, Central African Republic, São Tomé and Príncipe, South Sudan, Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia, Uganda, Angola, Comoros, Mauritius, Lesotho, Swaziland, Botswana

* 1960 – The Central African Republic declares independence from France.

* Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Central African Republic from France in 1960.

Countries where ASL or a derivative of ASL is the national or a widespread language include Barbados, Belize, Benin, Bolivia, Botswana ( with BSL ), Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, the Central African Republic, Chad, Côte d ' Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Kenya ( minority use ), Liberia, Madagascar ( minority use ), Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Philippines ( L2 use ), Puerto Rico, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Trinidad and Tobago, Togo, and Zimbabwe ( with ZSL ).

Warning posters in a Central African airport.

Most African Americans are of West and Central African descent and are descendants of enslaved Africans within the boundaries of the present United States.

However, some immigrants from African, Caribbean, Central American and South American nations, and their descendants, may be identified or self-identify with the term.

* Sierra Leone, Ghana, Togo, Central African Republic, South Sudan, Rwanda, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Seychelles, Madagascar, Somalia

The Central Bank of the West African States ( BCEAO ) reports that about 41 microfinance institutions ( MFIs ) operate in the country, serving a total of 800, 000 customers.

Bongos are found in dense tropical jungles with dense undergrowth up to an altitude of 4, 000 meters ( 12, 800 ft ) in Central Africa, with isolated populations in Kenya, and the following west African countries: -

A bongo drinks from a swamp. Angola, Benin extinct ?, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, The Democratic Republic of Congo, Côte d ' Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya ( the only place where the eastern bongo are found in the wild ), Liberia, Mali, Niger, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Togo extinct?

Aid sent by the UN and the US to Central African nations also contained some StarLink corn.

Highlights of the African collection include the Benin Bronzes, a magnificent brass head of a Yoruba ruler from Ife, Nigeria ; Asante goldwork from Ghana and the Torday collection of Central African sculpture, textiles and weaponry.

* Banda people, an ethnic group of the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Cameroon, and Sudan

* Central African Republic

It borders Libya to the north, Sudan to the east, the Central African Republic to the south, Cameroon and Nigeria to the southwest, and Niger to the west.

After a referendum on territorial autonomy on 28 September 1958, French Equatorial Africa was dissolved, and its four constituent states – Gabon, Congo ( Brazzaville ), the Central African Republic, and Chad became autonomous members of the French Community from 28 November 1958.

By mid-1997 the government signed peace deals with FARF and the MDD leadership and succeeded in cutting off the groups from their rear bases in the Central African Republic and Cameroon.

The Chari and Logone Rivers, both of which originate in the Central African Republic and flow northward, provide most of the surface water entering Lake Chad.

Chad's neighbors include Libya to the north, Niger and Nigeria to the west, Sudan to the east, Central African Republic to the south, and Cameroon to the southwest.

The second noteworthy characteristic is that the country borders on very different parts of the African continent: North Africa, with its Islamic culture and economic orientation toward the Mediterranean Basin ; West Africa, with its diverse religions and cultures and its history of highly developed states and regional economies ; Northeast Africa, oriented toward the Nile Valley and Red Sea region ; and Central or Equatorial Africa, some of whose people have retained classical African religions while others have adopted Christianity, and whose economies were part of the great Congo River system.

Afghanistan ( Persian / Pashto:, Afġānistān ), officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country forming part of South Asia, Central Asia, and to some extent Western Asia.

Chad (; ), officially the Republic of Chad, is a landlocked country in Central Africa.

It is delimited in the north by the Guéra Massif, in the south by highlands 250 kilometers south of the border with Central African Republic, and in the southwest by the Mandara Mountains.

Both river systems rise in the highlands of Central African Republic and Cameroon, regions that receive more than 1, 250 millimeters of rainfall annually.

Fed by rivers of Central African Republic, as well as by the Bahr Salamat, Bahr Aouk, and Bahr Sara rivers of southeastern Chad, the Chari River is about 1, 200 kilometers long.

The Logone River is formed by tributaries flowing from Cameroon and Central African Republic.

Cameroon 1, 094 km, Central African Republic 1, 197 km, Libya 1, 055 km, Niger 1, 175 km, Nigeria 87 km, Sudan 1, 360 km

* Southernmost point-unnamed location on the border with Central Africa Republic at a confluence in the Lébé river, Logone Oriental region

There are more than 80 ethnic groups in the Central African Republic ( CAR ), each with its own language.

Subsistence agriculture, together with forestry, remains the backbone of the economy of the Central African Republic ( CAR ), with more than 70 % of the population living in outlying areas.

The informal economy of the CAR is more important than the formal economy for most Central Africans.

File: Lettuce watering in CAR. jpg | Growing lettuce in the Central African Republic.

File: Cotton field in CAR. jpg | A cotton field in the Central African Republic.

A bricklayer in Paoua, Central African Republic. In the 40 years since independence, the CAR has made slow progress toward economic development.

* Northern-most point-unnamed location on the border with the Central African Republic in the Bomu river immediately west of the town of Mbaga in CAR, Orientale Province

* Northern-most point-unnamed location on the border with Central African Republic immediately south-west of the CAR town of Madoukou, Likouala department

David Dacko ( March 24, 1930 – November 20, 2003 ) was the first President of the Central African Republic ( CAR ), from August 14, 1960 to January 1, 1966, and the third president of the CAR from September 21, 1979 to September 1, 1981.

During his first term as president Dacko significantly increased diamond production in the CAR by eliminating the monopoly on mining held by concessionary companies and decreeing that any Central African could dig for diamonds.

André-Dieudonné Kolingba ( 12 August 1936 – 7 February 2010 ) was the fourth president of the Central African Republic ( CAR ), from 1 September 1981 until 1 October 1993.

The Mbomou River or Bomu ( also spelled M ' bomou in French ) forms part of the boundary between the Central African Republic ( CAR ) and the Democratic Republic of the Congo ( DRC ).

Oubangui-Chari, or Ubangi-Shari, was a French territory in central Africa which later became the independent Central African Republic ( CAR ).

Headquartered in Mexico City, the Mexican Football Federation has three operational centers: the Central Office, the High Performance Center (, CAR ) and the Training Center (, CECAP ).

It borders the Centre and East regions to the south, the Northwest and West regions to the southwest, Nigeria to the west, the Central African Republic ( CAR ) to the east, and the North Region to the north.

* Cordillera Administrative Region ( CAR ), encompassing the Cordillera Central mountains of the Philippines