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    The African Union (AU) is a continental union of 55 member states located on the continent of Africa. The AU was announced in the Sirte Declaration in...
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    colonial languages such as French, Portuguese, or English. The African Union declared 2006 the "Year of African Languages". Most languages natively spoken...
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    The member states of the African Union are the 55 sovereign states that have ratified or acceded to the Constitutive Act of the African Union to become...
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  • Demographics of the African Union Africanfuturism African art African jazz (disambiguation) African cuisine African culture African languages African music African...
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    become a post-colonial language in Africa and one of the working languages of the African Union (AU) and the Southern African Development Community (SADC)...
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    thirty-five languages are spoken in South Africa, twelve of which are official languages of South Africa: Ndebele, Pedi, Sotho, South African Sign Language, Swazi...
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    Greenberg, Joseph H. (1966). The Languages of Africa (2nd ed.). Bloomington: Indiana University. "AU Languages | African Union". au.int. Retrieved 2021-02-19...
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    part of the South African Republic and the Orange Free State. Following World War I, the Union of South Africa was a signatory of the Treaty of Versailles...
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    and Languages "The four national languages of DRC". Translators without Borders. Retrieved 8 April 2022. "East African Community (EAC)". Africa-union.org...
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    African customs were discouraged, and African languages were prohibited in mission schools. Leopold II of Belgium attempted to "civilize" Africans by...
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  • of those of African spoken languages. At least 13 foreign sign languages, mainly from Europe and America, have been introduced to at least 27 African...
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    of the Congo (DRC) and the southern tip of Somalia. Swahili is also one of the working languages of the African Union and of the Southern African Development...
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    the United Nations geoscheme for Africa and the regions of the African Union. Another common approach divides Africa by using features such as landforms...
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    The Southern African Customs Union (SACU) is a customs union among five countries of Southern Africa: Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Namibia and South Africa...
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  • saw the African Union declare the Year of African Languages along with the official establishment of the African Academy of Languages, June 21 saw the inauguration...
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  • The official languages of the United Nations are the six languages used in United Nations (UN) meetings and in which the UN writes all its official documents...
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    and Margaret Arminel Bryan. The Languages of West Africa: Handbook of African Languages (Routledge, 2017). West Africa at Wikipedia's sister projects Media...
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  • any visas for all 55 states in Africa. It was launched on July 17, 2016, at the 27th Ordinary Session of the African Union that was held in Kigali in Rwanda...
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    East Africa, also known as Eastern Africa or the East of Africa, is a region at the eastern edge of the African continent, distinguished by its geographical...
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    The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS; also known as CEDEAO in French and Portuguese) is a regional political and economic union of fifteen...
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  • The African Union of Railways is an organisation under the auspices of the new African Union dealing with railways. It is similar to the International...
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    the five Lusophone African countries formed an interstate organisation called PALOP, a colloquial acronym that translates to "African Countries of Portuguese...
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    The Bantu peoples are an ethnolinguistic grouping of approximately 400 distinct native African ethnic groups who speak Bantu languages. The languages...
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    The African Monetary Union (AMU) is the proposed creation of an economic and monetary union for the countries of the African Union, administered by the...
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    is the anthem of the African Union (AU). It was written as a poem titled "Proud to be African" by Ethiopian poet Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin, while the music...
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    Languages spoken in the Republic of India belong to several language families, the major ones being the Indo-Aryan languages spoken by 78.05% of Indians...
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    The Union of African States (French: Union des États africains), sometimes called the Ghana–Guinea–Mali Union, was a short-lived and loose regional organization...
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    African English (though it has unique influences from indigenous African languages, and Dutch influences it inherited along with the development of Afrikaans...
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  • working languages: Russian and Chinese. The government of East Timor has Indonesian and English as working languages alongside its official languages (Tetum...
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    The African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (known by its acronym UNAMID) was a joint African Union (AU) and United Nations (UN) peacekeeping...
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