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rilke 22-Aug-10, 14:08	21- Zimbabwe Once a Bristish colony.
grege79 22-Aug-10, 18:49	Deleted by grege79 on 22-Aug-10, 18:51.
grege79 22-Aug-10, 18:50	21 - Zambia A landlocked country, home to some of the most beautiful falls in the world.
grege79 22-Aug-10, 18:51	oops Zambia = 22! .......................................................
obsteve 22-Aug-10, 19:14	Ethiopia Band Aid, ("Do they know it's Christmas?"), for famine relief there. noble cause, terrible song
chessman48 22-Aug-10, 23:19	23 -Liberia Graham Greene again: Journey Without Maps. He went there in 1937 to escape a libel action from Shirley Temple arising from a film review in which he criticised her 'dubious coquetry' as a child actress. We have had Ethiopia before so I have numbered this 23.
hebrit 23-Aug-10, 06:32	24 - Cote d'Ivoire Boasts having the largest church in the world, the Basilica of Our Lady of Peace in the capital city of Yamoussoukro, the folly of a former president.
hebrit 23-Aug-10, 06:37	(a technical question) Can you all read properly if I say : ( Côte d'Ivoire or à côté tout près ) or do you see strange things. Should I avoid using accented characters. I am never sure how internet transmits these charaters.
chessman48 23-Aug-10, 07:09	Accents The accents have all come up. I thought that the Academie Francaise had abolished the circumflex accent as serving no useful purpose.
hebrit 23-Aug-10, 08:23	chessman (Accents) I do not know the latest news about all this reform of French (simplification). I think all these reforms are good, and they are doing it with respect : you can use the new way or the old way. So accents will not disappear tomorrow.
obsteve 23-Aug-10, 09:48	25 Sudan I don't know anything about Sudan, to my shame
hebrit 23-Aug-10, 09:57	25 News from Sudan I can say here what I know about Sudan : it is the largest African country (but not the most populated - that goes to Nigeria). They are having a king of civil war betweed Muslins and the Christian minority, mostly in the Darfour area (west). That's about all I know.
rilke 23-Aug-10, 10:06	26- Togo An African country that nobody speaks of.
chessman48 24-Aug-10, 10:35	27 - Ghana Is that halfway?
chessman48 24-Aug-10, 23:18	28 - Uganda Remember Idi Amin. He expelled the Ugandan Asians most of whom came to the UK and were very successful because of their work ethic.
obsteve 25-Aug-10, 03:32	29 Chad And that's after a lot of brain wracking (or should that be racking?) That's me done, I think
hebrit 25-Aug-10, 17:33	30 Republic of the Congo rikle mentioned it in relation with The Democratic Republic of the Congo. So I still have the right to mention it here. This is the former French Congo, with its capital Brazzaville (in honor of explorer Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza (one of these names I will always remember, don't ask me why). Whereas the other Congo (formerly Zaire) was before 1960 the Belgian Congo. I like to explore the world with Google Earth. I noticed the capital cities of these two countries face each other on each side of a river (Brazzaville and Kinshasa). But there does not seem to be any bridge between the two cities.
chessman48 25-Aug-10, 23:58	31 Kenya Capital Nairobi. Even though it is close to the equator the climate is pleasant because it is so high up
hebrit 26-Aug-10, 06:20	32 Niger North of Nigeria. Desert..
chessman48 27-Aug-10, 04:52	33 The Gabon French speaking neighbour of Cameroon. Capital Libreville.
hebrit 27-Aug-10, 07:22	34 Rwanda The country of the too-well known genocide.
rilke 27-Aug-10, 07:45	35- Senegal I remember Senegal for its World Cup played in 2002.
hebrit 27-Aug-10, 08:21	rilke Senegal strike two and Recap Senegal has already been named so we are still at 34. Recap: We have Algeria ; Botswana ; Cameroon ; Chad ; Congo (R) ; Congo (D R) ; Cote d'Ivoire ; Egypt ; Ethiopia ; Gabon ; Gambia ; Ghana ; Kenya ; Lesotho ; Liberia ; Libya ; Madagascar ; Malawi ; Morocco ; Niger ; Nigeria ; Rwanda ; Senegal ; Sierra Leone ; Somalia ; South Africa ; Sudan ; Swaziland ; Tanzania ; Togo ; Tunisia ; Uganda ; Zambia ; Zimbabwe (the two countries in the world starting with a Z - and they touch each other!) Still 20 to go!
coopershawk 27-Aug-10, 20:48	35. Namibia Colonized by Germany, then occupied by South Africa, then became independent in late 1980's or early 1990's.
chessman48 27-Aug-10, 23:06	37 Mozambique Explored by Vasca da Gama, became a Portuguese colony. Now a member of the (formerly British) Commonwealth.
hebrit 28-Aug-10, 07:53	38 Djibouti Capital Djibouti. Formerly Territoire Francais des Afars et des Issas. Small country in the Horn of Africa on the Gulf of Aden. Populated by Afars and Issas (Somalis). Islamic.
rilke 28-Aug-10, 10:54	Deleted by rilke on 28-Aug-10, 10:54.
hebrit 29-Aug-10, 07:07	36 Guinea We skipped 36 so let's call this one 36. Guinea : A small, poor country in West Africa. It used to be the name of almost all of West Africa. The former English coins called guineas were thus named because the gold used came from the region called Guinea.
chessman48 29-Aug-10, 09:32	39 - Western Sahara I am not sure whether this is on the list of 54 counties as it is currently disputed territory. Morocco claimed the land when Spain started decolonisation after the death of Franco.
hebrit 30-Aug-10, 06:34	40 Angola Former portuguese colony. Not much news lately from the civil war that was going on.
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