Sub-Saharan Africa

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

Currency from another country.

The downsides of a heavy reliance on one or more primary commodities such as oil, that include corruption, wildly fluctuating government revenues and stunted economic development

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

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

A legal system based on the precepts of Islam.

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.

A giant continent that broke up around 180 million years into Africa, Australia, Antarctica, India and South America.

An forested area in the tropics marked by substantial rainfall.

A crop that is easy to bring to market and is also considered a primary good, such as wheat.

A grassy plain that contains few trees.

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