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  2. Democratic Republic of the Congo - Wikipedia

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    DR Congo's women's national volleyball team lastly qualified for the 2021 Women's African Nations Volleyball Championship. [276] The country featured a national team in beach volleyball that competed at the 2018–2020 CAVB Beach Volleyball Continental Cup in both the women's and the men's section. [277]

  3. African Union - Wikipedia

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    The African Union (AU) is a continental union of 55 member states [8] located on the continent of Africa.The bloc was founded on 26 May 2001 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and launched on 9 July 2002 in Durban, South Africa. [9]

  4. African nationalism - Wikipedia

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    African nationalism is an umbrella term which refers to a group of political ideologies in West, Central, East and Southern Africa, which are based on the idea of national self-determination and the creation of nation states. [1]

  5. BRICS - Wikipedia

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    BRICS is an intergovernmental organization comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Iran, Egypt, Ethiopia, and the United Arab Emirates.Originally identified to highlight investment opportunities, [1] the grouping evolved into an actual geopolitical bloc, with their governments meeting annually at formal summits and coordinating multilateral policies since 2009.

  6. Member states of the United Nations - Wikipedia

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    The criteria for admission of new members to the UN are established in Chapter II, Article 4 of the UN Charter: [5]. Membership in the United Nations is open to all states which accept the obligations contained in the present Charter and, in the judgement of the Organization, are able and willing to carry out these obligations.

  7. The Gambia - Wikipedia

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    The national borders outline a narrow strip on either side of the River Gambia, a body of water that has played a vital part in the nation's destiny and is known locally simply as "the River". Without natural barriers, The Gambia has become home to most of the ethnic groups that are present throughout western Africa , especially those in Senegal .

  8. Bantu peoples - Wikipedia

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    The larger of the individual Bantu groups have populations of several million, e.g.the large majority of West Africa, notably the most populous African nation Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Burundi (25 million), the Baganda [5] people of Uganda (5.5 million as of 2014), the Shona of Zimbabwe (17.6 million as of 2020), the Zulu of ...

  9. Cameroon - Wikipedia

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    Cameroon was the host country of the Women Africa Cup of Nations in November–December 2016, [217] the 2020 African Nations Championship and the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations. The women's football team is known as the "Indomitable Lionesses", and like their men's counterparts, are also successful at international stage, although it has not won ...