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Member states of the African Union

  • TanzaniaTanzania does not have an official language by law, yet over 100 languages are spoken inside its borders, more than any other country in East Africa.
  • AlgeriaAlgeria spans over 2,381,741 square kilometres, making it the largest country in Africa and the tenth largest on Earth. Most of that vast surface is the…
  • DjiboutiDjibouti is a country in the Horn of Africa, and it carries the smallest population in mainland Africa. The 2024 census counted 1,066,809 people, recorded on…
  • MauritiusMauritius sits roughly 1100 nautical miles off the southeastern coast of East Africa, east of Madagascar, an island country in the Indian Ocean.
  • Burkina FasoBurkina Faso sits at the heart of West Africa, entirely landlocked, ringed by six countries and a history that refuses to be still.
  • TunisiaTunisia sits at the precise point where the western and eastern halves of the Mediterranean Basin meet. From its northernmost tip, Cape Angela, you could…
  • SenegalSenegal occupies a singular position on the map of Africa: it is the westernmost country on the entire mainland of the Old World, the very edge of…
  • KenyaIn 1984, at Lake Turkana, the palaeoanthropologist Richard Leakey was assisted by Kamoya Kimeu when they uncovered the Turkana Boy, a 1.6-million-year-old…
  • Democratic Republic of the CongoThe Democratic Republic of the Congo holds enough cobalt to power the world's electric cars, yet ranks 171 out of 193 countries on the Human Development…
  • SudanAround 11500 BC, near Jebel Sahaba, people fought what scholars call the earliest known war in the world. That ground now sits inside Sudan, a country in…
  • EthiopiaEthiopia holds a fossil named Dinkinesh, found in the Awash Valley of the Afar Region in 1974 by Donald Johanson. The world knows her as Lucy.
  • Ivory CoastIvory Coast holds a distinction that few nations on earth can claim: it supplies more cocoa beans to the world than any other country.
  • South AfricaA temperature of -20.1 degrees Celsius was recorded at Buffelsfontein in the Eastern Cape in 2013. Far to the north, near Upington in the Kalahari, the…
  • NigeriaNigeria is the most populous country in Africa, with more than 242 million people, making it the sixth-most populous country in the world.
  • EgyptEgypt covers the northeast corner of Africa and the southwest corner of Asia, joined by the Sinai Peninsula. Over 107 million people live there, making it…