Djibouti Disease
Djibouti is located in the northeast of Africa, on the Gulf of Aden around the entrance to the Red Sea. It is pretty much a stony desert with highland and scattered plateaus, also the size of Massachusetts. Djibouti had gained independence on the date of June 27th, 1977. It had been named the French Somaliland when the French were colonized there, but when Djibouti won independence it was better known as the Republic of Djibouti. Now let's go back in time. From the 7th century enslaved Africans were taken to the Middle East, North Africa, and also India. But as you see the Eastern slave trade was different from the slave trade across the Atlantic. There was a demand for servants, and in the transatlantic slave trade they wanted mostly men
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Most Djibouti residents are multi lingual, and speak Arabic and Taizzi-Adeni.The people there are not all healthy nor do they have money to buy luxury or non crucial things. They are very poor and most only have the life expectancy of 49 years old, even 26% of the children under 5 are chronically malnourished. The poverty rate of Djibouti is only 18.8% and it is mostly affected by health, poor education, and nutrition. Located in Djibouti, there is place named the Squalid neighborhood on the edge of town an amount of 10,000 of the poorest Djiboutian people live in the area, but 20% of the people who do live there are not Djiboutians. Even Fatima says “ We are eaten by mosquitos but we ourselves have nothing to eat. My children cannot go to school because they have to beg for food around the neighborhood every day. This is the way we live,”( Drake, Voice of America). In Djibouti, two of the largest ethnic groups are Somali taking 60% and Afar with 35%. With the last 5%, including the French, Arab, Ethiopian, and Italian. The environmental degradation that happens in Djibouti are that they’re forests are being threatened by agriculture and the use of wood for fuel and wood charcoal. Another hardship included could be that the temperatures go beyond 40 degrees celsius, being 104 degrees fahrenheit. Not to mention the refugee population, Djibouti struggles …show more content…
I know you're thinking how would you do this, but I'll tell you this secret about the process. First they find unemployed people to cut clear cut wood into cane width strips going out about 5 ft long. Next they set it on the fire in a an underground and closed area, then they fire the wood into charcoal in home fires, it keeps it less smoky, and would you believe it takes 10 kilos of wood to make just one kilo of wood charcoal. There is only less than 1% of Djibouti's total land area forest, most likely because all the trees get cut down for wood charcoal. Djibouti is also inclusive of acacia and doum palm trees around and the exportation of the wood charcoal started in 1990. It's now the 193rd largest export economy in the world. Djibouti's most important asset has to be it's strategic location in a busy shipping route between the Indian Ocean and the
Most Djibouti residents are multi lingual, and speak Arabic and Taizzi-Adeni.The people there are not all healthy nor do they have money to buy luxury or non crucial things. They are very poor and most only have the life expectancy of 49 years old, even 26% of the children under 5 are chronically malnourished. The poverty rate of Djibouti is only 18.8% and it is mostly affected by health, poor education, and nutrition. Located in Djibouti, there is place named the Squalid neighborhood on the edge of town an amount of 10,000 of the poorest Djiboutian people live in the area, but 20% of the people who do live there are not Djiboutians. Even Fatima says “ We are eaten by mosquitos but we ourselves have nothing to eat. My children cannot go to school because they have to beg for food around the neighborhood every day. This is the way we live,”( Drake, Voice of America). In Djibouti, two of the largest ethnic groups are Somali taking 60% and Afar with 35%. With the last 5%, including the French, Arab, Ethiopian, and Italian. The environmental degradation that happens in Djibouti are that they’re forests are being threatened by agriculture and the use of wood for fuel and wood charcoal. Another hardship included could be that the temperatures go beyond 40 degrees celsius, being 104 degrees fahrenheit. Not to mention the refugee population, Djibouti struggles …show more content…
I know you're thinking how would you do this, but I'll tell you this secret about the process. First they find unemployed people to cut clear cut wood into cane width strips going out about 5 ft long. Next they set it on the fire in a an underground and closed area, then they fire the wood into charcoal in home fires, it keeps it less smoky, and would you believe it takes 10 kilos of wood to make just one kilo of wood charcoal. There is only less than 1% of Djibouti's total land area forest, most likely because all the trees get cut down for wood charcoal. Djibouti is also inclusive of acacia and doum palm trees around and the exportation of the wood charcoal started in 1990. It's now the 193rd largest export economy in the world. Djibouti's most important asset has to be it's strategic location in a busy shipping route between the Indian Ocean and the