Sentences with phrase «south of the continent»

The shutdown affected diverse countries from all over the continent: whether they had small populations like Gabon or big ones like Ethiopia and the Democratic Republic of Congo; whether in the south of the continent like Zimbabwe, in the north in Algeria, across the east in Burundi and Uganda, and in the west like the shutdown preceding the elections in The Gambia.

While the majority of countries of Northern Europe elected governments of the right applying various versions of the neo-liberal program, in the south of the continent - it means in countries which were governed by Franco, Salazar, De Gaulle, the Greek colonels - arrived for the first time to power governments of the left.

It also takes the diversity of Africa seriously, presenting examples from over 30 countries in the East, West, Central and South of the continent, carefully selected to reflect the legacy of British, French, and Portuguese colonial rule.

The coal production is concentrated in the very south of the continent and transport links are poor.

Wardle and Smith (2004) argued that the upward rainfall trend is consistent with the upward trend in land surface temperatures that has been observed in the south of the continent, independent of changes over the oceans.

Not exact matches

across four continents, including Culver City (Los Angeles) and Perimeter (Atlanta) in the U.S., Sao Paulo in Brazil, Cape Town in South Africa, and their inaugural Greek workspace in the city of Athens.

In February, Spaces plans to open another five new locations across four continents, including Culver City (Los Angeles) and Perimeter (Atlanta) in the U.S., Sao Paulo in Brazil, Cape Town in South Africa, and their inaugural Greek workspace in the city of Athens.

This South African bank raised $ 2.2 billion for its clients in 50 public bond deals, more deals than any bank of any origin, on the continent in 2013.

Since the start of this year, the outlook across the continent has grown grimmer, especially in its two biggest economies, Nigeria and South Africa.

I also find it somewhat hilarious that an entire civilizations lived on the South American continent during this time and Jesus had no way of ever knowing they were even there....

It's hoped the Pope will bring a message of peace when he arrives in Chile on Monday to begin a week - long visit to his home continent of South America.

The three continents of South America, Africa and Asia share liberation theology's public enemy number one: the appalling political, social and economic oppression which has led to extreme human degradation.

Today, land issues are central in the struggle for justice in South Africa, in other parts of the continents, small farms are giving way to commercialized plantations that take away land without providing employment.

The scene now shifts to South America, the continent where Jorge Mario Bergoglio was born and has spent most of his life.

White South Africans, even during the recent years of increasing township violence and repressive emergency measure, present themselves to the world as the embattled custodians of civil order in a continent notorious for whimsical massacres.

Our analysis and that of many Bolivians is that the drug problem, a truly critical problem here and in the United States, is serving as a pretext for wider U.S. military presence and control on the continent of South America.

Centuries of research, tens of thousands of fossils unearthed, dated with the most reliable scientific methods (radioactive istopes such as Carbon - 14, potassium - argon, uranium - lead, etc), ample amounts of geological data, comparing rock formations from Africa and South America, from the British Isles and the Appalachians, coming to the evidence that these rocks were once united under the same continent (Pangaea, Gondwanaland, Rodinia, etc), etc, etc...

Given the evidence we have already looked at, it seems highly likely that Africa was indeed the continent where the transfer of HIV to humans first occurred (monkeys from Asia and South America have never been found to have SIVs that could cause HIV in humans).

In The Invisible Pyramid (Scribner's 1972) his analysis of the differences in evolutionary development on continents like Australia, South America and Africa leads to speculation about races of human beings on other planets.

If you were to tell me back then, that I would later relocate half - way across the globe, and settle for a few years in the South American continent, and more specifically in Buenos Aires, which was known for many decades as the «Paris of South America», I would have really scoffed in your face.

Number 3 in Africa: Algeria together with South Africa and Egypt belongs to the three largest importers of printing & paper technology on the African continent - with constantly high growth rates.

Algeria is the largest importer of packaging technology on the African continent, followed by South Africa.

This blend of spices, with its mix of Malay and Indian influences, can be used in South African recipes calling for curry powder or in recipes from other parts of the continent.

To better serve its customers in Eastern Europe and across the continent, Crown Food Europe has opened a new easy - open end manufacturing facility in Nagykoros, Hungary, approximately 100 kilometers south of Budapest.

Evander is gifted with great pace and technical ability, and the idea of yet another tricky South American joining a side that already contains Messi, Neymar, and Luis Suarez is sure to strike fear into the hearts of defences around the continent.

For avoidance of doubt, Sanchez is South American and, with due respect to that great continent (as with developing continents / countries), money plays a role in their players» decisions with personal ambition a distant second.

Yes — I don't really understand AFCON — not only is it held at least twice as often as other big international sporting events, and sometimes more, if they decide they want to change the schedule, to not interfere with something else (not the players club obligations, who pay their wages, perish the thought), but it is always held at the peak of the league season, as they say it maybe raining in summer, which I also don't get, as it rains here all the time — I'm sure there are parts of Africa which have reasonable weather during the summer — it's a big continent — South Africa must be fairly clement at that time.

Wenger himself said a couple of months ago: «If you look across Europe and the world of football, then South America is the only continent to develop strikers today,»

Reinaldo Rueda's problem gets to the heart of the contemporary reality of the South American club game, and helps explain just why the continent's teams have been so unimpressive in recent versions of the Club World Cup.

Since then, he led Gremio to the title of the Copa Libertadores, South America's Champions League, and was elected the continent's best player.

(Which, incidentally, is another theme that reappears throughout European history...) But still, in the new North vs. South Europe France could represent the crucial swing vote, and throw some political clout behind the interests of the South, preventing Germany from fully setting the economic agenda for the continent.

As thousands of South African students in #feesmustfall protests testified, fees play a large role in determining whether many learners across the continent can enrol or complete their education.

It is largely accepted that these programs lead to systemic macroeconomic instability across the continent and that these policies drove countries of the global south into «debt crisis, austerity, decline and conflict» (Bond) and «acute material scarcity» (Mbembe).

I remember there were those who opposed sanctions or even wore «hang Mandela T - shirts», but the majority of British people can be very proud of their role the struggle, whether through boycotting South African products, supporting sanctions, protesting in Trafalgar Square, joining the concert protests or in thousands of different ways adding their voices to the cries of those in townships and jails a continent away.

Recent developments in the world economy has spiked some of this growth and this is evident in the fact that the two largest economies on the continent South Africa and Nigeria are struggling to avoid sliding into recession.

The show has over the years seen some of the greatest acts from the African continent and even beyond grace its stage with some breathtaking performances; Jarule from the United States of America, Wizkid and PSquare from Nigeria, the late Hugh Masekela and HHP from South Africa and a lot more.

And can anyone seriously suggest that Japan, or South Korea, or Brazil would cut us a better deal as an island of 60m people than as a continent of 500 million?

Nigeria, the continent's most populous country, had been in recession since late 2015 while South Africa confirmed a technical recession in the first quarter of this year.

As the largest economy in East Africa, Kenya is a crucial trade route to the continent and provides an important buffer of stability in a region that includes the fledgling Somali government and the politically tense Sudan and South Sudan.

The statement signed by the Media and Publicity Secretary of IPOB, Mr. Emma Powerful, said, «Protests took place in all the continents of the world, countries in Europe, America, South America, Australia, some Asian and other African countries.»

According to President Akufo - Addo, «from an initial membership of five countries namely Australia, Canada, New Zealand and then white - ruled South Africa, who were linked by ties of blood and race to Britain, to becoming, now, a 53 - member organisation of diverse, once colonised peoples from all the continents of the world, who have gained their freedom and sovereignty, and are today equal members with Britain in the Commonwealth of Nations.»

Are North America and South America truly separate continents with their connection through the Isthmus of Panama?

Using data from 16 ice cores collected from widely spaced locations around the Antarctic continent, including the South Pole, a group led by Joe McConnell of the Desert Research Institute (DRI) in Reno, Nevada, created the most accurate and precise reconstruction to date of lead pollution over Earth's southernmost continent.

Tapping the Aquifer On a hydrographic map, the Ogallala is a Rorschach inkblot that some describe as the shape of a mushroom, others the South American continent.

For many Africans and Africa observers, the massive Medupi and Kusile coal plants being built by South Africa's Eskom at a cost of more than $ 20 billion, or the 6,000 - MW Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam under construction on the Blue Nile River for an estimated $ 4 billion, are hallmarks of the continent's progress toward electrification.

The panelists had flagged other issues that fall somewhat out of NSF's sole purview, including the need to restore the U.S. icebreaker fleet to supply McMurdo and concerns over sufficient high - bandwidth communications from the continent, particularly with regard to data - intensive projects such as the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the South Pole Telescope.

Much of what I saw was peculiar, but not so different from what you might find on the South American continent or on other tropical islands.

«The current heatwave is unusual due to its extent, with more than 70 per cent of the continent currently experiencing heatwave conditions,» says John Nairn, South Australia's acting regional director for the Bureau of Meteorology, in comments to the Australian Science Media Centre.

«Three new species of extinct South American marsupials discovered: Findings show the family, Palaeothentidae, was once widespread across the continent but add to extinction doubts.»

The program's long - standing commitment to the problems of human rights and the legacy of apartheid in South Africa led it to help found the African Transitional Justice Research Network (ATJRN) to assist local researchers and civil society organizations in African countries to effectively evaluate transitional justice mechanisms and strengthen human rights advocacy on the African continent.