CENTRAL AFRICAN REP.

325 CFA Blk of four: Native African birds are featured in this sheetlet, where they perch and fly near a local waterfall

ANGOLA

Kw 23: this 1990 issue features traditional architecture of Angola, showing the strong influence of Portuguese styles from the colonial period

BOTSWANA

P4.70: this colorful birds issue features a pair of African Green Pigeons in what appears to be a fruiting fig tree

BENIN

300fr: this colorful 1994 issue celebrates World Cup Soccer, showing the trophy surrounded by flags. In 1994 the USA hosted the games for the first time ever.

CENTRAL AFRICAN Rep. / Rep. Centrafricaine

100fr: this 1990 fauna issue foretells declining local populations of elephants, one of the species most targeted by poachers as demand for ivory soars worldwide

ETHIOPIA / Ethiopie

B2: this native birds set from 2001 shows Prince Ruspoli's Turaco, endemic to a highland forest areas in southern Ethiopia near Arero, Bobela, Sokora and Wadera. The species was discovered by Prince Ruspoli of Italy during an expedition in 1892.

IVORY COAST / Cote d'Ivoire

100fr: this 1979 Philexfrance exposition issue shows the national symbol (elephant) with an inset of a stamp showing a francolin or forest partridge