UI project brings whole new world to African nation

Sao Tome and Principe, a small island nation straddling the equator off the west coast of Africa, is about the same size as Champaign County and has a population similar to the county's as well.

But the county and the former Portuguese colony, which gained independence in 1975, now have more in common than land mass and number of residents.

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