Facts About Africa Sub Sahara Africa 2010

Sub Sahara Africa is the region of Africa that lies to the south of Sahara desert. Sub Saharan Africa includes all those African nations that are located partly or fully in the south of Sahara. Like the Sub Saharan Africa, there is another major region or classification about the Arab World, which lies mostly in the Northern Africa. Some regions such as Northeast Africa, Somalian Peninsula and Sudan are part of the Arab World despite its geographical location in the Sub Saharan Africa.




Sub Saharan Africa is often referred to as the Land of Black People or Black Africa. Sub Saharan Africa is the land of wide climatic diversity ranging from desert, semi-desert, savanna, tropical, subtropical, and rain forests and including South Africa and Congo regions that are considered as lands of mega-diversities. Sub Saharan Africa is considered as the poorest region of the world that suffers from massive mismanagement of monetary aids, political issues, corruption, chronic diseases, lowest life expectancy and highest infant mortality rates and inter-ethnic conflicts. Angola, Burundi, Congo, Cameroon, Chad, Rwanda, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Sudan, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Somalia, Botswana, Malawi, Swaziland, Namibia and Zambia are few of the countries in Sub Saharan Africa.