Our flagship project: P&E Links in Africa

Basic facts:

Continent Size: Second largest in the world
Continental Area: 11,700,000 square miles
Estimated Population: 690 million people
Largest City: Cairo, Egypt, 9.2 million people
Largest Country: Sudan, 968,000 square miles
Longest River: Nile, 4,160 miles
Largest Lake: Victoria, 26,828 square miles
Tallest Mountain: Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, 19,340 feet

More information:

The Millennium Development Goals in Africa (UNDP, 2002): http://www.undp.org/mdg/mdgreportinafrica.pdf

UNDP in Africa:
http://www.undp.org/rba/pubs/UNDP%20in%20Africa%202004.pdf

Africa by Country (UNDP):
http://www.undp.org/regions/africa/

Africa 2015-UNDP:
http://www.africa2015.org/

National Human Development Reports 2004:
http://hdr.undp.org/nhdr/corporate_policy.cfm

African Development Indicators 2000 (WB, 2000):
http://www.worldbank.org/data/countrydata/adi/adi.html

African Development Indicators 2005 (WB, 2005):
http://www4.worldbank.org/afr/stats/adi2005/default.cfm