term friend and mining entrepreneur‚ Abigail Jallow‚ who has made a fortune mining copper has contacted him about a new opportunity. The proposition is that he could set up his own company and take over a proposed gold mining opportunity in Sierra Leone. At present the opportunity is in its early exploration stages. It was an opportunity Abigail came across while prospecting for copper but she does not feel she has the time to take it further. So far the current indicated mineral resource discovered
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2014: disease’s early growth May 26th‚ 2014: Sierra Leone confirmed its first deaths from the virus. JUNE 17‚2014: Ebola has spread to Liberia’s capital of Monrovia‚ with a health official saying seven people have died there. People demonstrate JUNE 18‚2014: A World Health Organization report attributes 337 deaths to the Ebola virus‚ making this outbreak the worst recorded in history. July 29‚2014:Doctor leading Sierra Leone’s Ebola fight dies 9. JULY 31
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and many new deposits have been discovered and developed and some of the old major deposits are being renovated. South Africa‚ Ghana‚ Zimbabwe‚ Tanzania‚ Zambia and the DRC dominate the African mining industry. Whilst countries such as Angola‚ Sierra Leone‚ Namibia‚ Zambia and Botswana rely heavily on the mining industry as a major foreign currency earner. Unfortunately several African civil wars are funded by (and often caused by) some of these commodities‚ in particular diamonds. The potential
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war. Every state is trying to acquire these resources and to do this they are not hesitant to make any move; no matter what the consequences are. Conflicts over diamonds started in early 80s in Angola‚ the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Sierra Leone and then spread to different countries across Africa. The social‚ political and economic conditions started depending upon the mining activities of diamond. The paper argues that Diamond Conflicts are blamed for most of the unrest that has been
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History In 1972‚ the local government system in Sierra Leone was abolished by the then Executive by a “Presidential declaration” which was achievable as there was no codified law or any constitutional provision to protect local government from such powerful actions by the Executive. This abolition effectively meant that Management Committees appointed by the President between 2002 and 2004 replaced local authorities. Binneh –Kamara in 2013 argues that the “Local Government act of 2004 was enacted
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Mozambique to give off the scenery of Sierra Leone. The movie shows different villages in different scenarios‚ with rich natural colors like brown‚ green‚ red etc. The cities are portrayed as hectic and intimidating‚ dirty and poor. The actors in the movie are dressed in neutral colored clothes which are dirty and torn. The clothes give off the sign that the people are having a hard time in the country. The lighting in the movie is very bright. It portrays Sierra Leona in a way that makes the audience
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Summary of the Novel As an old woman‚ Aminata Diallo is brought to London‚ England‚ in 1802‚ by abolitionists who are petitioning to end the slave trade. As she awaits an audience with King George‚ she recounts her remarkable life on paper‚ beginning with her life in Bayo‚ in western Africa‚ prior to being abducted from her family at age 11‚ seeing the death of her mother and father‚ and being marched in a coffle of captives to the coast along with others from her village. Chekura‚ a boy of similar
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KENYATTA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS DEPARTMENT OF THEATER ARTS AND FILM UNIT NAME: KENYAN FILM CODE: MTF 519 Paper title: Criticism and reviews of the film Blood Diamond PAPER PRESENTED BY; MICHAEL NJERU NYAGA REG : M66/CE/22669/2010 To: Dr. S. M . Otieno April 2012 Blood Diamond. Introduction
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4. Nigeria’s Foreign Policy in relation to Economic Diplomacy Today’s governments are facing immense competition from other actors such as religious groups‚ private sector‚ media‚ immigrants and all other possible entities of the civil society who are demanding from the government that they do have a say in making and implementing foreign policy. Economic diplomacy which is gradually overtaking the politics oriented traditional diplomacy. With the growth of transactional economic interactions‚ the
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she obtained her M.D. in 1981‚ Jemison interned at Los Angeles County/University of Southern California Medical Center and later worked as a general practitioner. For the next two and a half years‚ she was the area Peace Corps medical officer for Sierra Leone and Liberia where she also taught and did medical research. • Following her return to the United States in 1985‚ Jemison made a career change and decided to follow a dream she had nurtured for a long time. In October of that year‚ she applied for
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