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Sub Saharan Africa

Most of sub-Saharan Africa is savanna, home to the elephants, lions, and zebras for which the continent is renowned. Throughout the region, intense pressure on national parks from farmers and herders imposes difficult land-use choices on governments seeking to preserve wildlife.

Only a small percentage of the land is irrigated, and overgrazing and deforestation is making desertification is a growing problem. As in the rest of Africa, civil unrest, inadequate transportation systems, and environmental degradation play out against a backdrop of multiplying human populations.

Disease, often as the result of weather or other environmental circumstances, is the biggets killer on the sub-continent. The worst epdiemic this century was in Zimbabwe where over 4,200 people died from an outbreak of Cholera in 2008/9. A further 2,300 were killed by Cholera in Angola in 2006/7 and 9 out of the top 10 disasters were as a result of epidemics.

The UK Government's FCO advise is as follows:

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