El Jadida – port city in Morocco
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Fascinating feature of human culture: caravans
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Poaching in South Africa at record high
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Useful Lists: The largest desert in Africa
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New African of the Year comes from the Cape Verde
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Udu – the vase-like instrument from NigeriaThe word Udu is quickly resolved, its function is not entirely. The word “udu” comes from the Igbo language and simply means “jug”. However, an udu is not used as a pitcher, although it is not only so, but actually looks like. That is, it looks like, except for one small flaw, by which one can not just be called Udu pitcher: In his belly, he has an opening. Continue Reading…
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The Drakensberg
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Famous African Francois Botha
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Parakou in Benin
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Aye-Aye! Only in Madagascar“Aye-aye” – this is not the answer of a sailor on a command of the captain. But the name of an animal that is found only on Madagascar. To German, it is also known as “aye”, wherein relatively unknown here: Who has heard that name before?This is the aye-aye, the aye-aye lemur as extremely irritating and belongs also to the primates. Continue Reading…
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Not only is the city with the locals as a popular seaside resort, but also with tourists from all over the world, many of course from Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The beaches at Sidi Bouzid, as well as those of Haouzia and Azemmour in the northeast make it the most popular destinations dar. 
Is typical for caravans are that they consist of hundreds to one thousand camels, horses and donkeys, and also were used for transport. Joined together in this most diverse traders with different goods to be sold at the destination. Continuous long distances were taken into account for why the animals were usually heavily loaded. 
Rhino poachers are at the most popular. The reason for this is to look at a sadly quite widespread misconception. In Asia, many people believe the hießt in case they are men, that made from the horns of rhinos is potency-enhancing powder. Of course this is not in the slightest way, but pay each interested enormous prices, in order to arrive at such a powder. 
What other deserts, in Africa and how big they are, in relation to each other, but also seen absolutely.The blog of touring Afrika.de provides information in the following, small, neat and in view of the subject, of course, extremely dry list:First Sahara9.1 million square kilometersSecond Kalahari520 000 square kilometersThird Namib300,000 square kilometers4th Somali desert260 000 square kilometersIs apparent that the Sahara is almost 20 times as large as the next great African desert, the Kalahari desert, which in turn, with 520,000 square kilometers, almost twice as large as the area of the Federal Republic of Germany. 
Winner in 2011, Pedro de Verona Rodrigues Pires, the former President of Cape Verde is. He is besides an excellent policy in his ten year tenure, particularly thanks, because he tried after the expiration of two five-year term of office, anti-constitutional tricks and dodges to extend his term of office, as is common in many other African countries. 
In the language of Zulu names of the mountains, however, completely different and not according to European legendary figures. uKhahlamba call the Zulu, the mountains, which roughly means “wall of spears drawn up,” referring of course to the many, often very steep summit.In addition to its scenic attractiveness are the Drakensberg interesting but also because of the existing certificates former human life for many tourists in southern Africa: The People of San who left numerous rock paintings. 
Many other people does not stop but to get excited about boxing as a sport and as a spectacle. In Germany, the attention is for such fringe sports always on whether there is currently German participants with chances to win, which was so in Formula 1, the ski jumping or boxing. Currently, the starving German boxing, but this at times and also one of Henry Maske, Axel Schulz was in a different way. 
Typical of Parakou is the roundabout in the center of the city, whose center has a pink obelisk with the inscription “Parakou” who is liked by the residents Parakous very happy, even though he happened to sound a little slanted.Addition to many administrative buildings, it also has an office in Parakou, the tourist office, which is open from Tuesday to Saturday.