Date: 01-21-13 BS-Pharmacy-1 ARTICLE ABOUT THINGS HAMPER THE ECONOMY Images of Africa have long been of a continent mired in conflict‚ poverty and squalor. Conflicts in the Democratic Republic of Congo‚ Somalia and Sudan‚ or poor governance in countries like Zimbabwe‚ have dominated reporting of Africa. There’s no denying that there are many issues facing our continent‚ but this picture is nevertheless reductive; it picks the failings of some corrupt regimes‚ and civil
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casualties across the world. These conflicts cause not only casualties and refugees but contribute vastly to the spread of disease‚ malnutrition and starvation‚ social and economic decline and moral deterioration. The Horn of Africa‚ which includes Sudan‚ contains today about all the problems that are on the world’s agenda: ethnic‚ religious and border conflicts‚ civil war‚ high military expenditure‚ migration and refugees‚ famine and the break-up of states. It is a region where the Cold War played
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CHINESE INVESTMENTS IN AFRICA China’s growing involvement in Africa has raised concern from western countries for the past decade. China claims to have distinguished itself from western countries with regard to its Africa policy by a great financial involvement based on “political equality and mutual trust‚ economic win-win cooperation‚ and cultural exchange”[1]. Indeed‚ as Hu Jintao says‚ “China and Africa are good friends‚ good partners and brothers”[2]. Chinese “investment” in Africa involves
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Help All You Want Imagine a small African family in Zimbabwe‚ a small child’s mother and father work the fields but due to further hunger are too weak to even stand up‚ let alone go out into the fields and work. This has started an entire chain reaction in the community. Since the child’s mother and father cannot go out into the field and harvest food‚ another family goes hungry‚ and then another and another‚ continuing on a path spiraling downwards. Now imagine this same family‚ but a stable government
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Ethiopian Famine By: Myra Boentaran Ethiopia is a country located in the Horn of Africa (a peninsula in Northeast Africa) and is bordered by Eritrea to the north and northeast‚ Djibouti and Somalia to the east‚ Sudan and South Sudan to the west and Kenya to the south. Ethiopia has a population of 87.9 million and is the second most populated nation on the African continent. 84% of the population lives in rural areas and over half of the population lives on less than US$1
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is in this endeavour especially in light of several key happenings across the developed and developing nations of the world. The focus of this paper is the efficiency in the execution of this role in two countries: Sudan (Darfur specifically) and Iraq. At present‚ Darfur in Western Sudan is faced with a disheartening case of civil wars and mass genocide led by government inspired militias. Iraq has maintained negative popularity particularly since the Persian Gulf Crisis of 1990 and more recently the
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of the longest rivers in the world. It flows north into northeastern Africa and Eleven Countries share it as a water source. Those would be namely: Tanzania‚ Uganda‚ Rwanda‚ Burundi‚ Democratic republic of the Congo‚ Kenya‚ Ethiopia‚ Eritrea‚ South Sudan‚ and Egypt. Interesting fact in the ancient Egyptian language‚ the Nile is called Iteru‚ meaning “great river.” People say the source of the Nile is Lake Victoria. The Nile has been the lifeline of civilizations in Egypt since the Stone Age‚ most
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biome is a tropical grassland in Africa between latitude 15° North and 30 degrees S and longitude 15 degrees W and 40° West. It covers Guinea‚ Sierra Leone‚ Liberia‚ Cote D’ivore‚ Ghana‚ Togo‚ Benin‚ Nigeria‚ Cameroon‚ Central African Republic‚ Chad‚ Sudan‚ Ethiopia‚ Somalia‚ and the Democratic Republic of the Congo‚ Angola‚ Uganda‚ Rwanda‚ Burundi‚ Kenya‚ Tanzania‚ Malawi‚ Zambia‚ Zimbabwe‚ Mozambique‚ Botswana‚ and South Africa. Around 2 million large plant-eating mammals live in the savanna. There
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RESPONSE PAPER – SLAVE REDEMPTION IN SUDAN This article discusses the slave redemption program that was developed after the National Islamic Front (NIF)‚ from Northern Sudan‚ had started to re-engage in the slave trade‚ in 1989. It provided background information on the raising of funds to buy back slaves led predominately by Christian Solidarity International (CSI). The actions of both groups created a situation of supply and demand. When the slave trade had been re-established the NIF would
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In the book Darfur and the Crime of Genocide by John Hagan and Wenona Rymond-Richmond‚ the authors discuss the atrocities in Darfur from a criminological viewpoint. The book is split up into 8 chapters‚ all discussing very important topics and issues. The prologue to the book introduces the problems in Darfur by use of a testimony from former Secretary of State Colin Powell before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee calling the massacre in Darfur genocide. From this point on‚ the book discusses
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