Across

2		Asks you to visit (4)
5		Home to the Great Rift Valley (5)
6		Bamako is there (4)
7		Equatorial African Country, about 69% forested, oil rich, has a stable elephant population (5)
8		Famous for river cruises (5)
10		Volcanic Islands east of Mozambique (7)
12		The Deccan Plateau is here (5)
13		Protectorate of the UK until 1984 (6)
15		Caribbean Island in the Mouth of big lake (5)
17		sounds like smoke (6)
18		arid red sea republic (5)

Down

1		Cymru is part of (6,7)
3		Gold Coast (5)
4		in the Marianas (4)
9		Pizac is there (4)
10		Three Gorges Dam is there (5)
11		oil-rich state on the tip of a peninsula (4)
12		Mesopotamia (4)
14		Khaen is the characteristic musical mouth organ in this country (4)
16		of 50 states (3)