Examples of use of Equatorial Africa
1. Anglicanism is growing fastest, particularly in regions such as equatorial Africa where tensions between Christianity and Islam are acute.
2. The sickle–cell gene is found in equatorial Africa, parts of southern Europe, southern Turkey, parts of the Middle East and much of central India.
3. Spread by the tsetse fly throughout equatorial Africa, this parasite is thought to infect between 300,000 and 500,000 people a year.
4. Internationally, La Niña impacts during the Northern Hemisphere winter typically include enhanced rainfall across Indonesia and northern Australia, as well as in the Amazon Basin and in southeastern Africa and below–average rainfall across the eastern half of the equatorial Pacific and eastern equatorial Africa.
5. Called the Regional Action Plan for Conservation of Chimpanzees and Gorillas in Western Equatorial Africa, the document seeks a multilateral response to the threats to populations of the western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) and the central African chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes troglodytes) that share the same habitat in six countries.