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It isn't surprising that Africans may think of English as one of their continent's languages.

At an estimated 25 percent of the continent's average gross domestic product, the African Union calls corruption a huge drain on Africa's productivity.

Water and climate experts from across Asia are stressing the need to work with nature, rather than against it, to save the continent's "disappearing deltas," home to some 400 million people.

Algeria is one of the African continent's largest economies.