The individual member states of the African Union (AU) coordinate foreign policy through this agency, in addition to conducting their own international relations on a state-by-state basis. The AU represents the interests of African peoples at large in intergovernmental organizations (IGO's); for instance, it is a permanent observer at the United Nations' General Assembly.
The following is an alphabetical list of subregions in the United Nations geoscheme for Africa, used by the United Nations and maintained by the UNSD department for statistical purposes.
The following are lists of cities in Africa.
Belonophora is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It is found in Tropical Africa from Senegal east to Sudan and south to Angola. It was described by Joseph Dalton Hooker in 1873.
Utricularia firmula is a small annual carnivorous plant that belongs to the genus Utricularia. It is native to tropical and southern Africa, where it can be found in Angola, Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, The Gambia, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. U. firmula grows as a terrestrial plant in damp, sandy or peaty soils in grasslands or on wet, mossy rocks, often as a weed in rice fields at altitudes from near sea level to 2,100 m (6,890 ft). It typically flowers toward the end of the wet season. It was originally named by Friedrich Welwitsch but formally described and published by Daniel Oliver in 1865.
Culcasia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Araceae, native to tropical Africa. Most of its species are climbers and resemble Cercestis, except that they do not produce flagella.
- Culcasia angolensisWelw. ex Schott - western + central Africa from Senegal to Angola
- Culcasia annetiiNtépé-Nyamè - Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Liberia
- Culcasia bosiiNtépé-Nyamè - Cameroon, Gabon, Congo-Brazzaville
- Culcasia brevipetiolataBogner - Gabon
- Culcasia caudataEngl. - Zaïre
- Culcasia dinklageiEngl - western + central Africa from Liberia to Zaïre
- Culcasia ekongoloiNtépé-Nyamè - central Africa from Nigeria to Zaïre
- Culcasia falcifoliaEngl. - central Africa from Gabon east to Tanzania and south to Mozambique
- Culcasia glandulosaHepper - Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Congo-Brazzaville
- Culcasia insulanaN.E.Br. - Zaïre, Cameroon, Gulf of Guinea Islands
- Culcasia lanceolataEngl. - Cameroon, Gabon
- Culcasia libericaN.E.Br. - Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Togo
- Culcasia linearifoliaBogner - Cameroon, Gabon
- Culcasia loukandensisPellegr - Cameroon, Gabon, Congo-Brazzaville, Zaïre, Central African Republic
- Culcasia mannii(Hook.f.) Engl. - Cameroon, Gabon, Congo-Brazzaville, Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea
- Culcasia obliquifoliaEngl. - Cameroon, Gabon
- Culcasia orientalisMayo - Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zambia
- Culcasia panduriformisEngl. & K.Krause - Cameroon, Gabon
- Culcasia parvifloraN.E.Br. - western + central Africa from Liberia to Zaïre
- Culcasia rotundifoliaBogner - Gabon
- Culcasia sanagensisNtépé-Nyamè - Cameroon
- Culcasia scandensP.Beauv. - western + central Africa from Liberia to Angola
- Culcasia seretiiDe Wild - western + central Africa from Liberia to Zaïre
- Culcasia simiarumNtépé-Nyamè - western Africa from Ivory Coast to Cameroon
- Culcasia striolataEngl. - western + central Africa from Liberia to Congo-Brazzaville
- Culcasia tenuifoliaEngl. - western + central Africa from Liberia to Zaïre
- Culcasia yangambiensisLouis & Mullend. - Congo-Brazzaville, Zaïre
Segmentorbis kanisaensis is a species of air-breathing freshwater snail, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails.
Cuviera is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae native to tropical Africa. It was originally described by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle in 1807 and is named after the French naturalist Georges Cuvier.
Amauris tartarea, the monk or dusky friar, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Guinea, Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Botswana and Namibia. The habitat consists of various types of forests.
Cymothoe lurida, the lurid glider, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia. The habitat consists of lowland to submontane forests, including riparian forests.
Craterispermum is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It contains 16 species that occur in tropical Africa and Seychelles. It is the only genus in the tribe Craterispermeae, of which the divergence time is estimated at 34.8 million years ago.
Pentila pauli, the Paul's buff, Paul's pentila or spotted pentila, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola, Uganda, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi and Zimbabwe. The habitat consists of deciduous woodland and forest margins.
Pardaleodes sator, the scarce pathfinder skipper, is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Sierra Leone, Guinea, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania. The habitat consists of forests.
Englerophytum is a group of trees in the family Sapotaceae described as a genus in 1914.
The AfroBasket 2021 qualification was a basketball competition that was played from January 2020 to July 2021, to determine the fifteen FIBA Africa nations who would join the automatically qualified host Rwanda at the AfroBasket 2021 final tournament.
Donella is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Sapotaceae.
This article provides details of international football games played by the Zaire national football team from 1971 to 1997, when the Democratic Republic of the Congo was named Zaire.
Gambeya gorungosana is species of evergreen tree native to eastern and central Africa.
