States the infant mortality rate is 6.1 deaths per live 1‚000 births (2017). This is even higher than Finland‚ who has the lowest infant mortality rate in the world at 2.3 deaths per 1‚000 live births (2017). At 154.4 deaths per 1‚00 live births‚ Sierra Leone is the highest in the world (2017). This number should be astronomically lower. Oddly enough‚ this high infant mortality rate leads to higher birth rates within those countries that suffer from higher rates (2017). If the problem of high infant
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The term United Empire Loyalist was an honorary title given by Lord Dorchester the Governor General of British North America in 1789 to colonists who remained loyal to the crown during and after the American Revolutionary War period and who resettled in British North America. The United Empire Loyalists were made up of a variety of people with different cultures‚ customs and native languages. These loyalists had a large impact on the demographic makeup of British North America. Much like the
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difficult to determine when highlife music started; Authors of Highlife music hypothesize it being originated anywhere between 75 years ago‚ to even a century ago. We also do not know exactly where it originated. ”Did it come from Nigeria? Ghana? Sierra Leone? Did it sprout spontaneously in various points across the West African coast? Or did it arrive there
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UN Vs. NATO The United Nations and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization are two different groups‚ but they affect the world in the same way. They both want to make a difference in today’s world‚ they strive for peace and prosperity‚ and they work hard to accomplish their goals. The UN and NATO are similar in the way they are organized. They are each structured into several groups. They both have councils‚ a Secretary General‚ and Secretariat. The UN is made up of six organs. They are
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ARMED CONFLICT BANE OF AFRICA’S DEVELOPMENT: CAUSES AND PREVENTION By Colonel JJ OGUNLADE NIGERIAN ARMY INTRODUCTION 1. The end of the Cold War between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and the United States of America (USA) was expected to usher in relative peace‚ security and stability globally. The corresponding calm was to facilitate meaningful economic and technological growth in most nations of the world. Unfortunately‚ these expectations have not been realised‚ as
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was staff‚ board of directors‚ volunteers and beneficiaries of the Youth Dream Centre Sierra Leone in the Lumley community Western Urban Area of Freetown. 3.4.1 Inclusion criteria Inclusion criteria are “the characteristics that the respondents must have in order to be included in the study” (Burns & Grove 2001:367). The respondents included in this study were all members of the Youth Dream Centre Sierra Leone and were willing to be interviewed by the researcher. 3.4.2 Exclusion criteria Exclusion
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proliferation of small arms 5. Drug trafficking 6. Food insecurity 7. Environmental degradation 8. Illiteracy 9. Endemic diseases‚ etc • Proliferation of light and small calibre weapons The instability generated by the civil wars in Sierra Leone‚ Sudan etc‚ have led to a considerable spread in the proliferation and illegal circulation of small arms in Africa. Due to the porosity of national borders and the strongly intertwined African population‚ the accumulation of light weapons in a
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Evaluate research on conformity making reference to 2 studies (22 marks) Conformity is the tendency to adjust one’s thoughts‚ feelings or behaviour in ways that are in agreement with those of a particular individual or group‚ or with accepted standards about how a person should behave in specific situations (social norms). It is also the key ways that a society or culture passes down its values or behaviours to its peers through an indirect form of social influence. Deusch and Gerald (1995) first
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human life. Most of the diamonds does come from war-torn areas in Africa. Could it be any connection‚ it is war in 90% of the countries that produce diamonds? I would say yes and would even go further with that answer and say‚ it is our fault! In Sierra-Leone there are 480‚000 people that work in the rivers every day to find diamonds that end up on our necks our fingers‚ these people does not get a single penny for finding these shiny things. If a person does not find a diamond throughout the day this
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complex Ebola outbreak since the Ebola virus was first discovered in 1976. There have been more cases and deaths in this outbreak than all others combined. It has also spread between countries starting in Guinea then spreading across land borders to Sierra Leone and Liberia‚ by air (1 traveller only) to Nigeria‚ and by land (1 traveller) to Senegal. The most severely
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