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South Africa: 1971: 955: Devco: Divested its holdings from 1987 until 1994 to a holding company after U.S. Congress passed a law forbidding U.S. companies from owning South African assets. [23] KFC sold its assets to Devco, which managed the trademark. [24] Sudan: 2019: 8: Araak Group [citation needed] Tanzania: 2013: 6: Dar es Salaam: Kuku ...
English, Guyanese Creole. Religion. Majority: Christianity. Minority: Islam, Rastafari, Comfa, Afro-American religions, Traditional African religions. Slave revolt leader, Cuffy. Afro-Guyanese are generally descended from the enslaved people brought to Guyana from the coast of West Africa to work on sugar plantations during the era of the ...
The history of Guyana begins about 35,000 years ago with the arrival of humans coming from Eurasia. These migrants became the Carib and Arawak tribes, who met Alonso de Ojeda's first expedition from Spain in 1499 at the Essequibo River. In the ensuing colonial era, Guyana 's government was defined by the successive policies of the French, Dutch ...
Guyana ( / ɡaɪˈɑːnə / ⓘ or / ɡaɪˈænə / ⓘ ghy-A (H)N-ə ), [ 11 ][ 5 ] officially the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, [ 12 ] is a country on the northern coast of South America, part of the historic mainland British West Indies. Guyana is an indigenous word [specify] which means "Land of Many Waters". [ 13 ]
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.It is bounded to the south by 2,798 kilometres (1,739 mi) of coastline that stretches along the South Atlantic and Indian Ocean; [18] [19] [20] to the north by the neighbouring countries of Namibia, Botswana, and Zimbabwe; and to the east and northeast by Mozambique and Eswatini.
The African National Congress ( ANC) is a political party in South Africa. It originated as a liberation movement known for its opposition to apartheid and has governed the country since 1994, when the first post-apartheid election resulted in Nelson Mandela being elected as President of South Africa. Cyril Ramaphosa, the incumbent national ...
List of diplomatic missions in South Africa. This is a list of diplomatic missions in South Africa. There are 134 embassies and high commissions in Pretoria, and many countries maintain either an embassy, high commission or consulate in Cape Town and consulates in other major cities. Trade missions and honorary consulates are omitted from this ...
Irfaan Ali. Mohamed Irfaan Ali (born 25 April 1980) [ 4] is a Guyanese politician serving as the tenth and current president of Guyana since 2020. A member of the People's Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C), he previously served as the minister of Housing and Water from 2009 to 2015. He is the first Muslim to hold office, and is the second Muslim ...