In many African countries, male circumcision is a rite of passage, sometimes with dire or lethal results.
In many African countries exploitation of regional and ethnic divisions or manipulation of the electoral rules has led to war.
In many African countries, for example, churches are packed and priests are hard pressed to keep up with the flow of converts.
In Congo, as in many African countries, the notion of family is flexible and children are often raised by the whole village they live in.
The BBC's Thabo Kunene, in Bulawayo, says that most houses in the city, even in townships, do possess toilets which flush, unlike in many African countries.
"Poor governance is a major issue in many African countries, and one that has serious repercussions for long-term food security, " says a statement by the International Food Policy Research Institute.
It is often assumed that increased investments were used to absorb the costs associated with the abolition of primary school fees, which dramatically increased enrolment but also led to over-crowded classrooms in many African countries.
In many poor African countries such institutions barely exist, whereas in wealthier ones spending on them has fallen over the years.
Liberals applaud the new tolerance for homosexuals, which contrasts starkly with the situation in many other African countries, where they face long jail terms.
"It combines the investments that MCC has made in many sub-Saharan African countries in agriculture and public infrastructure such as roads and irrigation to complement Agra's investments in providing the rural poor with seeds and fertilisers, " he told the BBC.
As in many Arab and African countries, they will retain political clout.
But in many Asian and African countries, the indoor use of coal and biomass fuels for cooking and heating is a hidden killer.
That money is likely to be provided outside the global fund established at last year's summit, which is thought by some aid experts to be an unnecssarily bureacratic means of providing the assistance many African countries in particular desperately need.
And France have had a role both in controlling the political and the economic systems of many African countries for quite a long time.
These young people, especially women and the rural and urban poor, are not equipped to join the ambitions of many African countries to achieve middle income status in the coming years.
One reason is the tragedy of it: Zimbabwe has fallen much further than most African countries, and in a fashion of misrule that many in Africa, especially its leaders, had claimed was over.
Furthermore, many African countries have embarked on Open Government practices, and to encourage this effort, in January 2012, AMI convened the first African Open Data Bootcamp in Kenya, which brought together journalists and developers.
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But many West African countries, who have seen their native shark fisheries destroyed by large offshore operations, voted in favour of the restrictions.
This includes as many as 40 military advisers who will train soldiers in Mali, and 200 British soldiers to be sent to neighbouring African countries, also to help train the Malian army.
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The appointment of the former Paris St Germain boss by Cameroon is the 25th time a European has taken charge of a national side in Africa, and of the 55 Confederation of African Football (CAF) members only 18 of those countries - many of who are towards the lower end of the rankings - have indigenous coaches.
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