Zimbabwe’s Emergency Management System: A Promising Development Grace L. Chikoto and Abdul-Akeem Sadiq Introduction Zimbabwe’s encounter with droughts‚ in particular‚ combined with economic and political challenges‚ has denigrated the country’s former status as the “breadbasket of Southern Africa” (Hunter-Gault 2006; Maphosa 1994; Swarns 2002). Zimbabwe is particularly prone to a number of natural and man-made hazards such as droughts‚ floods‚ veld fires‚ storms (PreventionWeb 2012)‚
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few of the sociological issues that I discovered from my research and experience. Zambia is located in Sub-Saharan Africa (south-central Africa)‚ east of Angola and south of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It also borders Tanzania‚ Malawi‚ Mozambique‚ Zimbabwe‚ and Namibia. Formally known as Northern Rhodesia‚ Zambia gained its independence from the UK in 1964 naming Kenneth Kaunda as the first president. According to BBC news‚ “President Kaunda imposed single-party socialism‚ in which his United
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Research Topic: “Evaluation of Consumer Satisfaction Level At Standard Chartered Bank “Dhanmondi” Branch” Introduction: Since Service Quality Assurance is a new concept in the Banking and Financial Service industry‚ collection of data based on Literature Review is one of the biggest constraints in the research. Most of the review done on the research has been through the web. The study provides an over view of the implementation of Internal Service Measures in Standard Chartered Bank and the
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Urbanization have existed for such a variety of year over the world. The development of urbanization is not another thing. The urban populace size and development rate which happen for the most part in many creating nations have social‚ financial and physical repercussion. This paper will concentrate on the quickened development of urbanization has on the request of key administrations. The arrangement to carte for asylum and fundamental administration‚ for example‚ water and sanitation‚ training
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INTRODUCTION By the end of the 19th century Europe had colonized Africa. The Europeans had many reason for why they wanted to colonize Africa. They were generally all political and economic reasons. It was easy for Europeans to colonize and take over Africa because slave trade had made the Europeans believe that Africans were inferior to them. This was in fact the justification for the Europeans to have such an imperialistic way of thinking. Between the 1870s and 1900‚ Africa faced European
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In the 1880s‚ the scramble for Africa began‚ which brought destruction to the continent. Europeans helped Africa in many ways but it was primarily for their benefits too. The westerners arrived with a main purpose of gaining for themselves with no regards for the effects they imposed on Africa. Although countries like Equatorial Guinea and Morocco improved slightly due to the Europeans‚ other countries‚ such as Nigeria and South Africa‚ suffered greatly. Morocco didn’t have roads before it became
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Contrary to popular belief‚ every country in Africa does not have soaring infection rates. For example‚ west and central Africa have HIV prevalence rates that vary from 5% to about 13%. The country of Senegal only has a rate between 1%-2% (Ng‚ Hawlan‚ 1999).Unfortunately southern Africa has not faired as well. Four countries have HIV prevalence rates that surpass 30%. “Those countries are Botswana (37.5%)‚ Lesotho (31.5%)‚ Swaziland (38.6%) and Zimbabwe (33.7%)” (Avert.org‚ 2004). The reasons some
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SNAKE BITES VENOM AND ANTI-VENOM Snake venom is modified saliva and is produced by modified saliva glands. Venoms are rich in hydrolithic enzymes‚ a complex mix of polypeptides‚ nucleases‚ peptidases‚ etc.‚ which help digest the snake’s prey. Some of them also enhance or contribute to the toxic effect of the venom. As early as 1949 it was shown that an enzyme from the Bothrops species produces a vasodilation resulting from the production of a hypotensor neuropeptide‚ bradykinin. This had important
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African Sleeping Sickness Human African Trypanosomiasis‚ known as sleeping sickness‚ is a vector-borne parasitic disease. Trypanosoma which are the parasites are protozoa transmitted to humans by tsetse flies. Tsetse flies live in Africa‚ and they are found in vegetation by rivers and lakes‚ gallery-forests and vast stretches of wooded savannah. Sleeping sickness occurs only in sub-Saharan Africa‚ in regions where tsetse flies are endemic. There are many regions where tsetse flies are found‚ but
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OVERVIEW OF SASOL & ITS OPERATIONS Sasol Limited is an innovative and competitive global energy company. GROWTH STRATEGY With a global growth strategy that has reached new dimensions and a work ethic rooted in loyalty to South Africa‚ Sasol looks to expand its platform in the worldwide markets as well as southern Africa where Sasol is a heavy investor. Sasol ’s focus is on four growth drivers: growing chemicals portfolio‚ optimising the performance of existing businesses‚ exploiting upstream
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