East African
Britishadjective
noun
Example Sentences
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AFP has interviewed deportees sent to Equatorial Guinea, including an East African man who crossed the US-Mexico border to seek asylum in 2024.
From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026
NAIROBI—A Kenyan high court put a temporary hold on the Trump administration’s plan to set up an Ebola quarantine-and-treatment facility for Americans in the East African country.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026
The Turkana Rift stretches roughly 500 kilometers across Kenya and Ethiopia and forms part of the larger East African Rift System.
From Science Daily • Apr. 25, 2026
East African farmers struggled to afford fertilizer even before the crisis and will likely have to make do with even less.
From Salon • Apr. 8, 2026
By the last centuries B.C. the advancing Bantu had reached the East African coast.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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