The Maghreb Region contains the Atlas Mountains which take up the North and North East part of Africa.  This creates a rain shadow effect making west of the mountains wet and east of it a desert.  The Sahra Desert is the largest in the world.  This region is closely tied with Europe due to settlers called Moores. 

The Nile Valley Region has a very diverse population.  The North section conatins Arabs, the south section of Sudan conatins Christains, and the west conatins Black African Arabs.  The Nile Valley region also conatins the largest river in the world, the Nile River.  The wierd thing about the Nile is that it runs from the south to the north.  Also in the Nile Valley region, there is a artifical lake called Lake Nasier.

There are many Euopeans in this area because during slavery, the slaves were bought from West Africa.  West Africa has a very tropical climate.  Nigeria is the most populated county in West Africa.  There is also a lot of minning that takes place in West Africa.

Central Africa gets a lot of rain, therefore, it has a lot of jungles.  The Congo River flows in Central Africa.  Central Afica is also very diverse.  People speak many langagues and there are about 700 different langagues spoken in Central Africa.  This land was founded by the Dutch, Portuages, and Germans. 

east Africa is in a really bad situation.  The east part of this region is consatly going through drought, leading to famine.  Also in the Eastern part is the country of Simalia which is in a very bad condtion.  East Africa has many problems.

Southern Africa is known for 2 things.  One is all of its minning and minerals.  A lot of the worlds diamonds, gold and silver is minned here.  The second thing is AIDS.  About 45 percent of adults i Southern Africa are infected with AIDS. 

The following are statements in the article Forein Policy 171:

1.  Somalia has been ripped apart by violence since the central government impoloded in 1991.

2.  The whole country has become a breeding ground for warloads, pirates, kidnappers, bomb makers, fanatical Islamist insurgents, freelance gunmen, and idle, angry youth with no education and way to many bullets.

3.  By early this year, the goverenmet's zone of control was down to a couple of city blocks.

4.  To call it even a failed state was generous.

Would I call Somalia a torn country? No, it is ten times worse.  They have been flooded with terrible people that do not have any control over themselves.  They are uneducated leaving them with crazy warlords that do not care about anyone else but themselves.  Other organizations try to help them by building mosques, schools, and social services organizations.  The warlords would try, and most of the time succeed, to destroy them.  The only people that are actually doing something in this country are the moneylords.  Moneylords are the Somalia big-bussiness owners who are holding thew country together.  They provide services such as healthcare, schools and power plants for little or no profit.  In 2006 things were looking better as warlords had been ran away but then the U.S tried to step in.  They attempted to take out Islamic leaders but ended up killing civilians.  Nothing has really changed since.  Let me leave you with two more statements from the same article.

1.  Nearly a whole generation of Somalis has absolutly no idea what a government is or how it functions.

2.  To them(Somalis), law and order are thoughly abstract concepts.  To them, the only law in the land is the business end of a machine gun.