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15/10/25 – Out of Africa

Add one letter to each of the words below, then rearrange the letters to form an African country. Added letters, if solved correctly, will spell out the name of TWO more African countries.

 

AERIAL EAGLES
RETIRE ALAMOS
ROCOCO TYPE
NINE YANK
ABLY BAILIE
DRAWN TAWNIES
INSITU

 

Puzzle courtesy of Mensa member Peter Hooton

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Left Column:

GAMBIA – Algeria, Eritrea, Morocco, Benin, Libya, Rwanda

 

Right Column:

NIGERIA –  Senegal, Somalia, Egypt, Kenya, Liberia, Eswatini, Tunisia

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