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  2. 1890s African rinderpest epizootic - Wikipedia

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    The efforts of the British South Africa Company to stamp out the disease using quarantines, trade bans, and extermination of healthy cattle that came into contact with suspicious herds was the primary cause of the Second Matabele War, in which the spiritual leader of the Northern Ndebele people (Matabele), Mlimo, incited the local population by ...

  3. Parkia biglobosa - Wikipedia

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    Parkia biglobosa, the African locust bean, [3] is a perennial deciduous tree in the family Fabaceae. It is found in a wide range of environments in Africa and is primarily grown for its pods that contain both a sweet pulp and valuable seeds. Where the tree is grown, the crushing and fermenting of these seeds constitutes an important economic ...

  4. Desert Locust Control Organization for Eastern Africa

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    This followed the desert locust plagues of the 1940s that left massive hunger and deaths across the region, and the recommendation, in October 1961 by the 3rd session of the Food and Agriculture Organization Eastern Africa Desert Locust Control Sub-committee, for its establishment. The desert locusts breed in the Sahel region of Africa and ...

  5. East African florin - Wikipedia

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    The Florin was the currency of the British colonies and protectorates of East Africa between 1920 and 1921. It was divided into 100 cents . It replaced the East African rupee at par, and was replaced in turn by the East African shilling at a rate of 2 shillings = 1 florin.

  6. List of locust species - Wikipedia

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    Australian plague locust nymph (fourth instar) Dense hopper band of desert locusts. Aiolopus simulatrix – Sudan plague locust of eastern Sudan; Anacridium aegyptium – Egyptian locust of Europe, northern Africa and Central Asia; Anacridium melanorhodon – Sahelian tree locust of Sahel region of Africa

  7. East African Currency Board - Wikipedia

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    The East African Currency Board (EACB) was established in 1919 to supply and oversee the currency of British colonies in British East Africa. It was established after Britain took control of mainland Tanzania from Germany at the end of World War I, and originally oversaw the territories of Uganda , Kenya , and Tanzania (excluding Zanzibar ).

  8. East African Community - Wikipedia

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    The East African Community (EAC) is an intergovernmental organisation in East Africa. The EAC's membership consists of eight states: Democratic Republic of the Congo , the Federal Republic of Somalia , the Republics of Burundi , Kenya , Rwanda , South Sudan , Uganda and Tanzania . [ 5 ]

  9. Plague of Justinian - Wikipedia

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    The plague of Justinian or Justinianic plague (AD 541–549) was an epidemic that afflicted the entire Mediterranean Basin, Europe, and the Near East, severely affecting the Sasanian Empire and the Byzantine Empire, especially Constantinople.