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To: Verginius Rufus

Ah, yes, Mozambique!

And, yes I did confuse Côte d’Ivoire with Côte d’Azul.

Hey, but at least I got Sierra Leone right, não?


70 posted on 11/24/2008 7:11:16 AM PST by Westbrook (Having more children does not divide your love, it multiplies it.)
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To: Westbrook
Actually, Sierra Leone was a British colony--from 1787 the town of Freetown was a haven for freed slaves, and about 1% of the population of the country is descended from such people. English is an official language there, along with a creole derived from English and indigenous languages.

Just to the north of Sierra Leone is Guinea (a former French colony) and on the other side of Guinea is Guinea-Bissau, a former Portuguese colony.

Sierra Leone has possibly the highest infant mortality rate in the world (slightly higher than Afghanistan and Liberia, and twice or three times the rate of some sub-Saharan African nations).

71 posted on 11/24/2008 8:37:21 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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