Sub-Saharan Africa

A grassy plain that contains few trees.

The money that temporary and permanent migrants send back to their home country.

A country in which the city and the state are essentially one and the same.

Currency from another country.

Name given to a series of innovations that were especially prominent from the late 1960s to the 1970s, that increased agriculture production through new high-yielding varieties of crops, irrigation, and the use pesticides and fertilizers.

A French-based creole language spoken in Mauritius.

Goods that come from agriculture, forestry, mining, and fishing.

The region of the world that falls between the Tropic of Cancer (23.43 degrees North) and the Tropic of Capricorn (23.43 degrees South).

The amount of greenhouse gases produced for any given person, entity or practice.

A Somali-based militant Islamic group.

The slaughter of half a million Tutsis by rival Hutu in Rwanda in 1994.

(ITCZ) A belt of low pressure around the equator.

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