It has entered the Southern African Development Community as a vehicle for improving ties with its largely Anglophone neighbors to the south.

* Species text for Blue Crane in The Atlas of Southern African Birds

* BBS, collective term for the former South African High Commission Territories of Basutoland, Bechuanaland Protectorate and Swaziland, administered by the British High Commissioner for Southern Africa

Cameroon also faces a complaint filed with the African Commission on Human Rights by the Southern Cameroons National Council ( SCNC ) and the Southern Cameroons Peoples Organisation ( SCAPO ) against the Government of the Republic of Cameroon, in which the complainants allege that the Republic of Cameroon is illegally occupying the territory of Southern Cameroons.

), tigers ( Panthera tigris subspecies ), Asiatic lion ( Panthera leo persica ), leopards ( Panthera pardus ), Jaguar ( Panthera onca ), Cheetah ( Acinonyx jubatus ), Asian elephant ( Elephas maximus ), some populations of African Elephant ( Loxodonta africana ), the dugong and manatees ( Sirenia ), and all Rhinoceros species ( except some Southern African subspecies populations ).

Similar plant communities are found in the four other Mediterranean climate regions around the world, including the Mediterranean Basin ( where it is known as maquis ), central Chile ( where it is called matorral ), South African Cape Region ( known there as fynbos ), and in Western and Southern Australia.

The Southern African Khoisan languages only utilize root-initial clicks.

By law and Southern social convention, household heads were adult, white propertied males, and all white women and all African Americans were thought to require protection and guidance because they lacked the capacity for reason and self-control.

In 1953, in the face of African opposition, Britain consolidated the two colonies of Rhodesia with Nyasaland ( now Malawi ) in the ill-fated Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland which was dominated by Southern Rhodesia.

On 15 September 2008, the leaders of the 14-member Southern African Development Community witnessed the signing of the power-sharing agreement, brokered by South African leader Thabo Mbeki.

* Eastern and Southern African ( ESAF ) – Nairobi, Kenya

* Southern African Development Community Tribunal

* Rock Kestrel-Species text in The Atlas of Southern African Birds.

The conclusion of the Langa Commission, a commission appointed by Southern African Development Community ( SADC ) to investigate the electoral process, however, was consistent with the view of international observers and local courts that the outcome of the elections was not affected by these incidents.

The economy of Lesotho is based on agriculture, livestock, manufacturing, mining, and depends heavily on inflows of workers ’ remittances and receipts from the Southern African Customs Union ( SACU ).

Lesotho, is a member of the Southern African Customs Union ( SACU ) in which tariffs have been eliminated on the trade of goods between other member countries, which also include Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, and Swaziland.

It is a member of many regional economic organizations including the Southern African Development Community ( SADC ) and the Southern African Customs Union ( SACU ).

An example of the changes which have crept over the Southern region may be seen in the Southern Negro's quest for a position in the white-dominated society, a problem that has been reflected in regional fiction especially since 1865.

Scholars have mapped at least four major regional variations of spoken American English: Northern, Southern, Midland, and Western.

Instead of pursuing unilateral prerogatives, Brazilian foreign policy has tended to emphasize regional integration, first through the Southern Cone Common Market ( Mercosul ) and now the Union of South American Nations.

In December 2011, BJU announced its intention to apply for regional accreditation with the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools ( SACS ).

CND has a national organisation based in London, national groups in Wales, Ireland and Scotland, regional groups in Cambridgeshire, Cumbria, the East Midlands, Kent, London, Manchester, Merseyside, Mid Somerset, Norwich, South Cheshire and North Staffordshire, Southern England, South West England, Suffolk, Surrey, Sussex, Tyne and Wear, the West Midlands and Yorkshire, and local branches.

In addition, there is a small community of Danish speakers in Southern Schleswig, the portion of Germany bordering Denmark, where it is an officially recognised regional language, just as German is north of the border.

In 1969 the revolutionary government officially changed the regional designation of Tripolitania to Western Libya, of Cyrenaica to Eastern Libya, and of Fezzan to Southern Libya ; however, the old names were intimately associated with the history of the area, and during the 1970s they continued to be used frequently.

In 2002 the government merged the nine largest airlines into three regional groups based in Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou, respectively: Air China, China Eastern Airlines, and China Southern Airlines, which operate most of China's external flights.

Fiber to the x infrastructure has been expanded rapidly in recent years, principally by regional players including Southern Telecom Company, SibirTelecom, ER Telecom and Golden Telecom.

Its importance as Brazil's national music transcends region, however ; samba schools, samba musicians and carnival organizations centered around the performance of samba exist in every region of the country and, while regional musics prevail in other regions ( for instance, in Southern Brazil, Center-West Brazil, and all of the Brazilian countryside, Sertanejo, or Brazilian country music, is the most popular style ).

The cuisine of the Southern United States is defined as the historical regional culinary form of states generally south of the Mason Dixon Line dividing Pennsylvania from Maryland and Delaware as well as along the Ohio River, and extending west to southern Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas.

Thai cuisine is more accurately described as four regional cuisines corresponding to the four main regions of the country: Northern, Northeastern ( or Isan ), Central, and Southern, each cuisine sharing similar foods or foods derived from those of neighboring countries and regions: Burma to the northwest, the Chinese province of Yunnan and Laos to the north, Vietnam and Cambodia to the east and Malaysia to the south of Thailand.

Besides on-campus libraries, the UC system also maintains two regional library facilities ( one each for Northern and Southern California ), which each accept older items from all UC campus libraries in their respective region.

Using six different climate model simulations, a large multi-university study of ocean ecosystems predicts, by 2050 A. D., " a global increase in primary production of 0. 7 % at the low end to 8. 1 % at the high end ," although with " very large regional differences " including " a contraction of the highly productive marginal sea ice biome by 42 % in the Northern Hemisphere and 17 % in the Southern Hemisphere.

Local and regional newspapers include the The Cork News, Carrigdhoun, the Cork Independent, The Corkman, the Mallow Star, the Douglas Post, the East Cork Journal and the Southern Star.

The Southern Cone Common Market ( Mercosur ) notably including Brazil was established in 1991 with similar plans for freer regional trade.

Using six different climate model simulations, a large multi-university study of ocean ecosystems predicts, by 2050 A. D., " a global increase in primary production of 0. 7 % at the low end to 8. 1 % at the high end ," although with " very large regional differences " including " a contraction of the highly productive marginal sea ice biome by 42 % in the Northern Hemisphere and 17 % in the Southern Hemisphere.

Many fast food operations have more local and regional roots, such as White Castle in the Midwest United States, along with Hardee's ( owned by CKE Restaurants, which also owns Carl's Jr., whose locations are primarily on the United States West Coast ); Krystal, Bojangles ' Famous Chicken ' n Biscuits, Cook Out, and Zaxby's restaurants in the American Southeast ; Raising Cane's in Louisiana ; Hot ' n Now in Michigan and Wisconsin ; In-N-Out Burger ( in California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, and Texas ) and Original Tommy's chains in Southern California ; Dick's Drive-In in Seattle, Washington and Arctic Circle in Utah and other western states ; Halo Burger around Flint, Michigan and Burgerville in the Portland, Oregon area.

The park's regional conservation importance is significant as its 298, 000 hectares represents over half the total landmass of protected areas within the Southern Brigalow Belt bioregion.

However, the DRC being a member of the SADC ( Southern Africa Development Community ) organisation, President Laurent Kabila called this regional organisation to the rescue.

The geographic extent of the regions was based largely on drainage basins, the regional boundaries being major drainage divides such as the Southern Alps.

The hotel was demolished in 2005 and replaced by the similarly named office building known as Southern Cross Tower.

Grits are mentioned in the response of an Indian imitating an Southern American Accent at a BPO office when asked by an American Manager to describe the food in the NBC TV Show Outsourced.

ICANN remains in the same building where he worked, which is home to an office of the Information Sciences Institute at the University of Southern California.

President Kenneth Kaunda, who held office 1964 – 1991, was a very visible advocate of change in Southern Africa.

* Charleston Southern University has a Strom Thurmond Building, which houses the school's business offices, bookstore, and post office.

Across town at the University of Southern California, she received the coveted USC " Magnum Opus " Award which hangs in the office of the Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation.

In 1724 the primary political rival of Walpole and Townshend in the Cabinet, Lord Carteret, was dismissed from the post of Southern Secretary and once again appointed to the lesser office of Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.

The Southern Pacific depot has been razed, however, it was one of four SP depots in the Rio Grande valley ( the others are Brownsville, now a museum ; McAllen, now a law office ; and Edinburg, now the home of the Chamber of Commerce.

He believed that in their lust for office, patronage and spoils, politicians in the North pandered to the antislavery vote, especially during presidential campaigns, and politicians in the slave states sacrificed Southern rights in an effort to placate the Northern wings of their parties.

Governor's office, and within a few days the location was identified as Bruce Karatz's home in Southern California.

Bracknell is also home to the central Waitrose distribution centre and head office which is on a 70-acre ( 280, 000 m2 ) site on the Southern Industrial Estate.

He opened the first post office on the Southern Railroad in 1895.

The rest of the settlers, including the post office, moved closer to the Southern Pacific railroad tracks.

The Southern Pacific Railroad reached Bradley in 1886, and a post office was established the same year.

In 1912 several things happened in Yorba Linda: it received its first post office ; the Yorba Linda Citrus Association was founded ; the Southern California Edison Company began providing electricity ; and the first church was constructed.

It received a post office in 1881 under the name Osgood after California Southern Railroad chief engineer Joseph O. Osgood ; the renaming was supposedly an unsuccessful attempt to convince Osgood to build the railroad through the San Luis Rey River valley ( the rail line eventually followed the Santa Margarita River instead ).

In 2004, The Philadelphia Inquirer wrote about the borough's " fast growing gay and lesbian community ," and the marriage equality organization Garden State Equality's main Southern New Jersey office is in Collingswood.

By 1895, the Kansas City, Pittsburg and Gulf Railroad ( later known as the Kansas City Southern Railway ) laid tracks through the area, the Kedron post office moved closer to the railroad and a marble quarry, and was renamed as Marble.

When the Southern Pacific railroad was built through the area in the 1870s, Cottage Grove station was placed more than half a mile northeast of the post office, on the east side of the river.

The first telephone service came to Liberty in 1902, when Southern Bell installed a telephone switchboard in the same building as the post office.

He remained top-billed and none of Beery's films during the sound era lost money at the box office ; his movies were particularly popular in the Southern regions of the United States, especially small towns and cities.

The Gore post office opened in 1880, was renamed Goresburgh in 1882, and then immediately renamed Junction City, as the Cincinnati Southern Railway had reached town.

From his office in Kampala, Waite founded the Southern Sudan Project and was responsible for developing aid and development programmes for this war-torn region.

By the beginning of the 1980s Southern rock icons the Allman Brothers and Lynyrd Skynyrd had broken up, Capricorn Records was bankrupt, and Jimmy Carter out of office.