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Motto
"Unidad, Paz, Justicia"   (Spanish)
"Unity, Peace, Justice"
Anthem
Caminemos pisando la senda
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Islam in Africa
Region Total Population Muslims % Muslim % of Muslim total
Central Africa 83,121,055 12,582,592 15.138% 0.852%
East Africa 193,741,900 66,381,242 34.263% 4.497%
North Africa 202,151,323 180,082,076 89.083% 12.
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country, state, and nation can have various meanings. Therefore, diverse lists of these entities are possible. Wikipedia offers the following lists:

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Islam, the religion of almost all of the Algerian people, pervades most aspects of life. The vast majority of citizens are Sunni Muslims.
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Islam in Angola is a minority religion with 1 to 2.5% of the population identifying as Muslim. The Association of the Development of Islam in Angola is the primary proselytizing organization. Muslim Angolans are represented by the Supreme Council of Angolan Muslims of Luanda.
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Islam was brought to Benin from the north by Arab, Hausa, and Songhai-Dendi traders. Benin's Muslim population is concentrated in the north of the country, though extends as far souh as Djougou and even into traditionally Yoruba areas.
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Islam in Botswana is not well established and is only 2-3 percent of the population. Of those 2-3 percent, the vast majority are from the Indian subcontinent. Several Muslim agencies in Botswana have publicly expressed concern about Islamophobia in the local media, but its
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Islam in Burkina Faso (Upper Volta) has a long and varied history. As of today, the population of the country is 55 percent Muslim, representing about 7,658,922 individuals.
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Muslims in Burundi are officially around 1% of the total population, though Muslim Burundians estimate the figure to be closer to 8-10%. The CIA World Factbook also puts the figure at 10%. [https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/by.
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Muslims comprise roughly 16 percent of Cameroon's 13.1 million inhabitants. The Fulani, a pastoral nomadic group, spread Islam in early 19th century West Africa largely through commercial activity and Sufi brotherhoods (Qadiri and Tijani).
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According to the U.S. State Department International Religious Freedom Report 2006, there is a small Muslim community in Cape Verde. ^[1]

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Islam accounts for approximately 15% of the population of the Central African Republic, making it the second most followed organized religion in the country after Christianity (50%).
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The earliest Islamic presence in Chad can be traced back to the legendary Uqba ibn Nafi, whose descendants can be found settled in the Lake Chad region to this day.^[1].
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According to the 2006 estimate by the U.S. Department of State, roughly 98% of the population in the Comoros are Muslim. Islam and its institutions have helped to integrate Comorian society and provide identification with a world beyond the islands' shores.
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Islam in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is not a recent phenomenon, as it has been present within the area since the 18th century, when Arab traders from East Africa pushed into the interior for slave-trading purposes.
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Islam spread to the Republic of the Congo from North Africa in the mid-19th century. ^[1] There is a growing Muslim community in the country, estimated at 2 percent of the population. In 2005 a large new mosque was constructed in Brazzaville.
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Islam in Djibouti has a long history, first appearing in East Africa during the lifetime of Muhammad. Today, 96 percent of Djibouti's 490,000 people are Sunni Muslims adhering largely to the Shafi legal tradition.
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Egypt is a republic with Islam as the state religion. Over 80% of Egyptians are Sunni Muslims^[1], many of whom follow local Sufi orders, and a small number are Shi'a.
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Islam in Eritrea is well established and accounts for approximately half of the religious population. The vast majority of non-Muslims in Eritrea are Orthodox Christians, they follow the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahdo Church.
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Approximately 12% of the population of Gabon practice Islam (of which 80 to 90 percent are foreigners).

Islamic, Catholic, and Protestant denominations operate primary and secondary schools in Gabon.
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Islam is the majority religion of The Gambia, with around 90% of the population being Muslims. However, some popular religions practices diverge from mainstream Islam, with a system of marabout societies being very common.
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The spread of Islam into West Africa, beginning with ancient Ghana in the ninth century, was mainly the result of the commercial activities of North African Muslims. The empires of both Mali and Songhai that followed ancient Ghana in the Western Sudan adopted the religion.
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2005 official statistics for Islam in Guinea estimate that 85% of Guinea's 7.8 million people are Muslim. Most are Sunnis who follow the Maliki legal tradition and Qadiri and Tijani Sufi orders. Although the French established a colony in 1891, their control of the region was weak.
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Islam is the predominate religion of Guinea-Bissau, numbering an estimated 38-45% of the roughly 1.4 million nationals as followers making it the largest religion of the country.
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Islam is the religion of approximately 10% of the Kenyan population, or approximately 3.4 million people[https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ke.html#People]. The Kenyan coast is mostly populated by Muslims.
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According to Adherents , the Muslim population of Lesotho in 2000 was 1000 or 0.05% of the population.^[1]

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Islam in Liberia is widespread, with an estimated 20% of Liberians professing the religion. The vast majority of Liberian Muslims are Sunni, with only a few Lebanese being Shi'ites. The Ahmadiyya, whom most orthodox Muslims consider heretical, are also slightly represented.
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Most Libyans adhere to the Sunni branch of Islam, which provides both a spiritual guide for individuals and a keystone for government policy.
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