Sub-Saharan Africa
"Sub-Saharan Africa" as used in the statistics of many of the UN institutions
Sub-Saharan Africais the part ofAfricathat issouthof theSahara.It includes of all the countries of Africa that are fully or partly located south of the Sahara desert (exceptSudan).[1]It contrasts withNorth Africa,which is considered a part of theArab world.Somalia,Djibouti,ComorosandMauritaniaaregeographicallypart of Sub-Saharan Africa, but also part of the Arab world.[2]
References[change|change source]
- ↑"Political definition of" Major regions ", according to the UN".Archived fromthe originalon 20 April 2010.Retrieved15 December2010.
- ↑Tajudeen Abdul Raheem, ed., Pan Africanism: Politics, Economy and Social Change in the Twenty First Century, Pluto Press, London, 1996.
