Afrikanisch

Afrikanische Staaten:


1. Ägypten

2. Algerien

3. Angola

4. ÄquatorialGuinea

5. Äthiopien

6. Benin

7. Botswana

8. BurkinaFaso

9. Burundi

10. CapVerde

11. Djibouti

12. Elfenbeinküste

13. Eritrea

14. Gabun

15. Gambia

16. Ghana

17. Guinea

18. GuineaBissau
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19. Kamerun
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20. Kenia

21. KongoBrazzaville
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22. KongoZaire
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23. Lesotho

24. Liberia

25. Libyen

26. Madagaskar

27. Malawi

28. Mali

29. Mauritanien

30. Mauritius

31. Marokko

32. Mozambique

33. Namibia

34. Niger

35. Nigeria

36. Ruanda

37. SãoTomé

38. Sambia

39. Senegal

40. Seychellen

41. SierraLeone

42. Simbabwe

43. Somalia

44. Südafrika

45. Sudan

46. Swasiland

47. Tansania

48. Togo

49. Tschad

50. Tunesien

51. Uganda

52. WestlicheSahara

53. ZentralAfrika

Afrikanisch ist eine Sprache, die eigentlich nur von einigen Weißen in heiter gemeinten Sketchen gesprochen wird und mehrheitlich aus unflektionierten Partikeln wie 'hugah' und 'bongo' besteht. Die wirklichen afrikanischen Sprachen sind so kompliziert, dass es in den betreffenden Ländern permanent zu Bürgerkriegen und Versorgungsschwierigkeiten kommt.

US chief warns Brussels over GM ban
Support is growing in the US to escalate a dispute with Brussels over genetically modified food, further straining transatlantic relations over trade policy.
US Trade Representative Robert Zoellick said he supported calls for action against the European Union over its moratorium on genetically modified food products.

»I personally am now of the view that we need to bring a case,« Mr Zoellick said, urging that the EU be brought before the World Trade Organisation.

And he said that his position was winning support in Washington.

»My sense was that there is pretty broad agreement on this but I don't want to presume everybody else's position.«

While stating that a final position would need Cabinet approval, he urged action »sooner rather than later«.

Fight back

The statement will strain Washington-Brussels trade relations already strained over levies on US steel imports, and agriculture subsidies.

EU Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy said Europe would fight any attempt by the US to force it to open its markets to genetically modified crops.

»If there was to be litigation, of course we would fight it and I believe we would win it,« he said.

A complaint to the WTO would only make finding a solution »more complex, rather than more simple«, Mr Lamy added.

Controversial technology

The US has proved a champion of genetically modified crops, which include extra genes added to bring characteristics such as pest resistance, or improved vitamin content.

GM supporters believe the crops could be a major ally in the war against famine in developing nations.

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»I find it immoral that people are not being able to be supplied food to live in Africa because people have invented dangers about biotechnology,« Mr Zoellick said.
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But the technology has also sparked considerable concerns over potential side effects, and the possibility of genes being transferred from GM crops to wild plants.

The EU has for four years refused to approve products such as foods and pharmaceuticals including ingredients derived from genetically-modified crops.

While Mr Zoellick last February threatened to take the EU to the WTO, the dispute over the issue had appeared, last autumn, to have subsided.

»Die Kinder der Regenmacher« (posthum, Daressalam 1981) von Aniceti Kitereza ist bislang der einzige Roman, der aus dem Suaheli direkt ins Deutsche übersetzt wurde.

Die meisten literarischen Texte, die in afrikanischen Sprachen geschrieben werden ( - und es gibt Texte in nahezu allen Sprachen - ), werden bei uns nicht wahrgenommen, es sei denn, sie sind ins Englische oder ins Französische übersetzt worden.