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What is savanna?
This is the general term for Africa's grasslands.
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What is Cote d'Ivoire?
This country has lost 85% of its rain forest to deforestation.
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What is a refugee?
This is a person who flees his/her home to escape danger or unfair treatment.
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What is the Sahel?
This is the region of transition in Africa from the Sahara to the savannas.
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What are sanctions?
This is a form of economic pressure which was applied to South Africa by the global community in hopes of ending the South African policy of apartheid.
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What is deforestation?
This is the result of the over harvesting of trees.
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What is South Africa?
This African country has three capitals, one of which is Pretoria.
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What is a civil war?
This is a conflict between opposing groups of citizens in the same country.
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What is a megadrought?
This is a drought that lasts longer than 10 years.
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What is Lake Victoria?
This is the largest tropical lake in the world.
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What is desertification?
This is the turning of the savannah into desert through drought or over-farming.
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What is Swaziland?
This is the enclave in South Africa besides Lesotho.
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What is a coup?
This is a sudden political takeover.
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What is apartheid?
This is the systematic segregation of blacks in South Africa.
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What is Rwanda and Burundi?
The Hutu and Tutsi are primarily from these two countries and have been embroiled in terrible civil wars which have killed hundreds of thousands.
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What is land redistribution?
This is the name of the act of taking land from those with plenty and giving to those with little.
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What is the Central African Republic?
This country was a former colony of France and lies immediately north of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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What is harambee?
This is a Swahili word meaning "pull together."
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What is leeching?
This is the effect of too much rain and moisture on soil, particularly prevalent in rain forests.
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Who is Nelson Mandela?
This is the most famous South African who was instrumental in ending apartheid in the early 1990s.
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What is flora?
This is the Latin term meaning plants native to a certain area.
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What is Zaire?
This is the former name of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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What is white flight?
After the seizure and redistribution of land by Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe, many white Zimbabweans left the country in a process known as this.
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What is pyrethrum?
In Kenya, pesticides are made from this flower which is raised as a cash crop.
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What is Zimbabwe?
In 1980, Robert Mugabe, the leader of this country, promised that his government would buy land from white farmers only if the farmers would sell it willingly.
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