Great Rift Valley

Great Rift Valley

• The Eastern Africa plate is pulling away from Africa

Niger Delta• Site of Nigeria’s

huge oil production

• Lack of environmental regulation leads to massive pollution

Malaria• Common in Sub

Saharan Africa

• Spread by mosquitoes

• Standing water leads to the spreading of the disease

• Killed 655,000 people in Africa

The rest of the world and apartheid

• The United Nations imposed sanctions on South Africa for the violent racist policies.

• Sanctions are economic actions taken against countries that violate international laws

Serengeti

• Flat grasslands in the eastern African countries of Kenya and Tanzania