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
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
Kenyans enlisted to fight for Russia in the war against Ukraine will be granted amnesty on their return home, the East African nation's foreign minister has said.
From BBC • Mar. 22, 2026
“On my way to that cell, I passed holding cells filled with people who appeared to be of Latino and East African descent,” she wrote.
From Salon • Feb. 3, 2026
Barack’s rowdy Hawaiian high school guy posse mingled happily with a handful of his Kenyan relatives, who wore brightly colored East African hats.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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