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BBC: Africa population tops a billion

Juan Cole 11/19/2009

** Africa population tops a billion **
The number of people in Africa has passed the one billion mark, the UN Population Fund says in a report.
< http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/africa/8366591.stm >

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page

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