The South African plateau is connected towards East African plateau, with probably a slightly greater average elevation, and marked by some distinct features.

The eastern branch of the East African Rift, contains much smaller lakes, many of them brackish and without outlet, the only one comparable to those of the western trough being Lake Turkana or Basso Norok.

This block of country lies just west of the line of the great East African Trough, the northern continuation of which passes along its eastern escarpment as it runs up to join the Red Sea.

For example, there are differences between African, East Asian and Indo-racial groups in how they metabolize alcohol.

* East African Railway Master Plan

* East African Bongo

* East African shilling: East African Community ( Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda )

Clement Martyn Doke ( 16 May 1893 in Bristol, United Kingdom – 24 February 1980 in East London, South Africa ) was a South African linguist working mainly on African languages.

In 1902, Meinhof made recordings of East African music.

A distinctive East African English is spoken in countries such as Kenya or Tanzania.

Caribbean cuisine is a fusion of African, Amerindian, European, East Indian, and Chinese cuisine.

In addition, there are between 350, 000 and 400, 000 native African adherents in East, Central and South Africa.

This would indicate that both humans and members of the Pan clade were present in the East African Rift Valley during the Middle Pleistocene.

Elements of the FP were also used to form Belgian colonial units that fought in the East African Campaign during World War II.

British and Commonwealth forces fought the neighboring Italians during the East African Campaign.

In 1996 a revitalized organization of seven East African states, the Intergovernmental Authority on Development ( IGAD ), established its secretariat in Djibouti.

That same year, Datsun won the East African Safari Rally and merged with Prince Motors, giving the company the Skyline model range, as well as a test track at Murayama.

It would go on to two outright wins in the East African Rally.

The word has come to refer to historical mass-dispersions of people with common roots, particularly movements of an involuntary nature, such as the expulsion of Jews from the Middle East, the African Trans-Atlantic slave trade, the southern Chinese during the coolie slave trade, or the century-long exile of the Messenians under Spartan rule.

Egypt is the most populous country in the Middle East and the third-most populous on the African continent ( after Nigeria and Ethiopia ).

Both East and West regarded Greece as a nation well within the sphere of influence of Britain.

A nation with a population of less than one million, it maintains nearly 1, 000 soldiers overseas in UN peacekeeping missions, mainly in the Middle East.

However, Timor including the nation of East Timor is more populated.

Trying to identify a contemporary vernacular term and the associated nation with a classical name, Latin writers from the 10th century onwards used the learned adjective teutonicus ( originally derived from the Teutones ) to refer to East Francia (" Regnum Teutonicum ") and its inhabitants.

It always was constrained by the powerful example of the increasingly prosperous West, to which East Germans compared their nation.

The mixed public-private health care system in the United States is the most expensive in the world, with health care costing more per person than in any other nation, and a greater portion of gross domestic product ( GDP ) is spent on it than in any other United Nations member state except for East Timor ( Timor-Leste ).

The Nazism ideology referred to Henry as a founding father of the German nation, fighting both the Latin Western Franks and the Slavic tribes of the East, thereby a precursor of the German Drang nach Osten.

The history of Africa begins with the prehistory of Africa and the emergence of Homo sapiens in East Africa, continuing into the present as a patchwork of diverse and politically developing nation states.

The opening of the Suez Canal in 1869 revived European interest in the East, but no nation was successful in establishing trade dominance.

This economic stagnation is argued to have commenced with the demise of the Ottoman Caliphate in 1924, with trade networks being disrupted and societies torn apart with the creation of new nation states ; prior to this, the Middle East had a diverse and growing economy and more general prosperity.

Japan is an island nation in East Asia comprising a stratovolcanic archipelago extending along the Pacific coast of Asia.

* 1919 – At the Paris Peace Conference, Emir Faisal of Iraq signs an agreement with Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann on the development of a Jewish homeland in Palestine and an Arab nation in a large part of the Middle East.

He worked to restore the West German economy from the destruction in World War II to a central position in Europe, rebuilt its army and came to terms with France, helped make possible Western European unification, opposed rival East Germany, and made his nation a member of NATO and a firm ally of the United States.

Since the islands are located in the center of the East China Sea relatively close to Japan, China and South-East Asia, the Ryūkyū Kingdom became a prosperous trading nation.

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It was first identified in the West Nile subregion in the East African nation of Uganda in 1937.

On 2 June, Powell spoke against the stationing of American Cruise missiles in Britain and claimed the United States had an obsessive sense of mission and a hallucinatory view of international relations: " The American nation, as we have watched their proceedings during these last 25 years, will not, when another Atlantic crisis, another Middle East crisis or another European crisis comes, wait upon the deliberations of the British Cabinet, whose point of view and appreciation of the situation will be so different from their own ".

Public recourse is limited if the state relies on any other nation for major military support, e. g. then-communist Poland's and East Germany's reliance on the Soviet Union.

In February 1989 he wrote to the President of Portugal, the Pope, and the UN Secretary-General, calling for a UN referendum on the future of East Timor and for international help for the East Timorese, who were " dying as a people and a nation ", but when the UN letter became public in April, he became even more of a target of the Indonesians.

During this time he continually campaigned for unity and peace within East Timor, and was generally regarded as the de facto leader of the emerging nation.

East Chapel Hill High School and Chapel Hill High School have received national recognition for excellence, with Newsweek currently ranking East Chapel Hill High as the 88th best high school in the nation, and the highest ranked standard public high school in North Carolina.

The Iran-Contra matter resulted from NSC-led efforts to develop a policy to befriend Iran and provide arms to that nation in exchange for its resistance to the Soviet Union and, more particularly to assist in the freeing of American hostages held by Muslim extremist groups in the Middle East.