Namibia uses regions as its first-level subnational administrative divisions.Since 2013, it has 14 regions which in turn are subdivided into 121 constituencies.. Upon Namibian independence, the pre-existing subdivisions from the South African administration were taken over. Since then, demarcations and numbers of regions and constituencies of Namibia are tabled by …

The Politics of Eritrea and the Government of Eritrea takes place in a framework of a single-party presidential republican totalitarian dictatorship.The President officially serves as both head of state and head of government.The People's Front for Democracy and Justice is the only political party legally permitted to exist in Eritrea.The popularly elected National Assembly of …

Current regions. The former ten regional boundaries were officially established in 1987, when the Upper West Region was inaugurated as the state's newest administrative region. Although the official inauguration was in 1987, the Upper West Region had already functioned as an administrative unit since the break-up of the Upper Region in December 1982, prior to the 1984 …

The Eritrean War of Independence was a war for independence which Eritrean independence fighters waged against successive Ethiopian governments from 1 September 1961 to 24 May 1991.. Eritrea was an Italian colony from the 1880s until the defeat of the Italians by the Allies of World War II in 1941, Eritrea then briefly became a British protectorate until 1951.

The regions of Uganda are known as Central, Western, Eastern, and Northern. These four regions are in turn divided into districts. There were 56 districts in 2002, which expanded into 111 districts plus one city by 2010. The national government interacts directly with the districts, so regions do not have any definite role in administration. ...

East Africa, Eastern Africa, or East of Africa, is the eastern subregion of the African continent.In the United Nations Statistics Division scheme of geographic regions, 10-11-(16*) territories make up Eastern Africa:. Due to the historical Omani Empire and colonial territories of the British East Africa Protectorate and German East Africa, the term East Africa is often (especially in the ...

Lavandula (common name lavender) is a genus of 47 known species of flowering plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae.It is native to the Old World and is found in Cape Verde and the Canary Islands, and from Europe across to northern and eastern Africa, the Mediterranean, southwest Asia to India.. Many members of the genus are cultivated extensively in temperate climates as …

Eritrea (/ ˌ ɛr ɪ ˈ t r iː. ə,-ˈ t r eɪ-/ ()), officially the State of Eritrea, is a country in the Horn of Africa region of Eastern Africa, with its capital and largest city at Asmara.It is bordered by Ethiopia in the south, Sudan in the west, and Djibouti in the southeast. The northeastern and eastern parts of Eritrea have an extensive coastline along the Red Sea.

A widespread famine affected Ethiopia from 1983 to 1985.Almost 200,000 children were orphaned. According to Human Rights Watch, more than half its mortality could be attributed to "human rights abuses causing the famine to come earlier, strike harder and extend further than would otherwise have been the case". According to the United States Agency for International …

The Afar Region (/ ˈ ɑː f ɑːr /; Afar: Qafar Rakaakayak; Amharic: አፋር ክልል), formerly known as Region 2, is a regional state in northeastern Ethiopia and the homeland of the Afar people.Its capital is the planned city of Semera, which lies on the paved Awash–Assab highway.. The Afar Triangle, the northern part of which is the Danakil Depression, is part of the Great Rift ...