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African Savannah (Israel)
African Savannah (Israel) is the drive-through open-range section of the Ramat Gan Safari, Zoological Center Tel Aviv–Ramat Gan, opened 1974, holding about 1,600 animals in mixed African herds across 250 acres.
African savannah (Ukraine)
African savannah (Ukrainian: Африканська савана) is the largest exhibition zone in the renovated Kharkiv Zoo, opened in 2021, where zebras, giraffes, wildebeest, and ostriches share one outdoor enclosure.
African socialism
African socialism: socialist doctrines of 1960s-1970s newly independent African states, also called Ujamaa in Tanzania, blending communal African values with state-led development; variants under Nkrumah, Senghor, Nyerere, Kaunda; largely abandoned after economic decline.
African spurred tortoise
The African spurred tortoise, also known as the sulcata tortoise or Sahel tortoise, is Africa's largest and the world's third largest tortoise, native to the Sahel.
African Studies
African Studies is the interdisciplinary academic field devoted to studying Africa, its societies, histories, languages, literatures, and politics, drawing on anthropology, history, sociology, and literary studies.
African swimming championships
African Swimming Championships, the biennial continental swimming meet of Africa run by CANA/Africa Aquatics since 1974 (first edition Cairo); 2014 and 2020 editions cancelled by Ebola and COVID-19; 17th edition Oran, Algeria, May 2026.
African swine fever
African swine fever (ASF, peste porcina africana) is a highly contagious Asfarviridae virus disease of domestic and wild pigs, lethal up to 100%, harmless to humans, present in 83 countries since 2005 and controlled mainly by biosecurity, stamping out, and zoning.
African swine fever virus
African swine fever virus (ASFV), Asfarviridae double-stranded DNA virus causing ASF, a hemorrhagic pig disease with up to 100% mortality; harmless to humans; spread from Kenya 1909 to 83 countries; no globally approved vaccine.
African swine fever virus, family 110
African swine fever virus, family 110 (MGF 110, multigene family 110) is a gene family of ASFV, encoding about-110-amino-acid proteins that modulate host immunity and virulence.
African Table Tennis Federation
The African Table Tennis Federation (ATTF) is the continental governing body for table tennis in Africa, founded in Cairo in 1961 and now comprising 54 member associations.
African Telecommunications Union
The African Telecommunications Union (ATU) is a pan-African intergovernmental organization founded in 1977, headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, that develops information and communication technology infrastructure and coordinates Africa's spectrum positions.
African theatre of World War I
African theatre of World War I: the 1914-1918 Allied conquest of Germany's four African colonies, Togoland, Kamerun, South-West Africa, and German East Africa, marked by Lettow-Vorbeck's guerrilla campaign, mass African conscription, and over 150,000 soldier and carrier deaths.
African tick bite fever
African tick bite fever is a typically mild tickborne infection caused by the bacterium Rickettsia africae and spread by Amblyomma ticks in sub-Saharan Africa, the Caribbean, and Oceania.
African Traditional Medicine
African Traditional Medicine (Traditional African Medicine), indigenous healthcare of African peoples using medicinal plants, materia medica, and diviner-healers; used by over 80% of Africans, with WHO regional strategies and integration debates.
African trypanosomiasis
African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness, HAT) is a tsetse-fly-transmitted parasitic disease of sub-Saharan Africa caused by Trypanosoma brucei gambiense or rhodesiense; fatal untreated, now reduced below 1,000 yearly cases with ten countries validated for elimination.
African Union
The African Union (AU) is the continental organization of 55 African states, launched in 2002 in Durban as successor to the OAU. Its organs, Agenda 2063, AfCFTA, peace and security architecture, G20 membership, and institutional reforms under Ruto are covered.
African Union Mission to Somalia
African Union Mission to Somalia (AMISOM): AU peace support operation authorized by UNSC resolution 1744 (2007), deployed 2007-2022 against Al-Shabaab, succeeded by ATMIS (2022) and AUSSOM (2025).
African Union Pan African Veterinary Vaccine Centre
The African Union Pan African Veterinary Vaccine Centre (AU-PANVAC) is the African Union's specialized laboratory in Debre Zeit, Ethiopia, that independently tests and certifies veterinary vaccines used in Africa.
African Union Support and Stabilization Mission in Somalia
AUSSOM (African Union Support and Stabilization Mission in Somalia) is the AU-led peace support mission authorized by UNSC Resolution 2767 on 27 December 2024, operational 1 January 2025 as successor to ATMIS and AMISOM, with up to 11,911 personnel and a December 2029 handover target.
African Union Transition Mission in Somalia
African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS): AU peace support operation replacing AMISOM on 1 April 2022 under Resolution 2628, up to 19,626 personnel fighting Al-Shabaab, drawdown phased through 2024, replaced by AUSSOM from 1 January 2025.
African university-press movement
The African university-press movement is the post-independence effort, beginning in the mid-1950s, to establish university-owned presses across sub-Saharan Africa so new states could publish their own scholars.
African Village
African Village (القرية الأفريقية) is a zoo zone of Dubai Safari Park in Al Warqa 5, Dubai, UAE, holding 37 African species including gorillas, white lions, and African elephants, with lemur and macaw feeding encounters.
African Volleyball Confederation
African Volleyball Confederation (CAVB, Confédération Africaine de Volleyball), Africa's continental volleyball and beach volleyball governing body under the FIVB: 54 national federations, 7 zones, Rabat headquarters, founded 1965/1972.
African vulture optimization algorithm
The African vulture optimization algorithm, or AVOA, is a population-based metaheuristic that mimics African vultures' foraging to find global optima, introduced by Abdollahzadeh, Gharehchopogh, and Mirjalili in 2021.
African wax prints
African wax prints, known locally as ankara or kitenge, are colorful cotton cloths made by a resin-resist printing process, worn in West and Central Africa since the late 19th century.
African wild ass
African wild ass (Equus africanus), also Nubian and Somali wild ass, a critically endangered wild equid of the Horn of Africa and ancestor of the domestic donkey, domesticated about 5000 years ago; Nubian subspecies possibly extinct, Somali perhaps 600 left.
African wild dog
African wild dog (Lycaon pictus), also called painted dog or Cape hunting dog: an endangered sub-Saharan canid living in cooperatively hunting, cooperatively breeding packs; IUCN 2025 lists 1,676 mature individuals, decreasing, threatened by disease, snaring, and habitat loss.
African wildcat
The African wildcat (Felis lybica), also called the Afro-Asiatic wildcat, is a small wild cat found across Africa and Asia and the wild ancestor of the domestic cat.
African wrestling
African wrestling: traditional ground-fighting combat sports of West and North Africa, best known as Senegalese laamb (lutte, mbapatt), with lutte simple and lutte avec frappe forms, UWW international rules, and ECOWAS TOLAC tournaments.
African Writers Series
The African Writers Series was a paperback series published by Heinemann from 1962 to 2003, beginning with Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart and totaling 359 books.