African Monetary Zone. (WAMZ) The WAMZ is made up of five countries namely Gambia‚ Ghana‚ Guinea‚ Nigeria and Sierra Leone. The main aim of the WAMZ is to plan to introduce a common currency‚ the Eco by the year 2015. Already‚ eight states (Benin‚ Burkina Faso‚ Côte d’Ivoire‚ Mali‚ Niger‚ Senegal‚ and Togo) under the West African Economic and Monetary Union or UEMOA share a common currency‚ the CFA Franc‚ with the exception of Guinea Bissau which joined the group on UEMOA on May 2‚ 1997 and became the
Premium West Africa Sierra Leone Burkina Faso
Victoria’s Secret Child Labor Violation In December 2011‚ Victoria’s Secret was accused of acquiring cotton from a farm that utilizes child labor but is certified as organic and fair-trade. Bloomberg News investigated the fields in Burkina Faso‚ West Africa and focused their story on a thirteen year old‚ Clarisse Kambire‚ who was pulled out of school to work on the cotton fields. She has to dig rows by hand across a field equivalent to the length of four football fields‚ haul manure on her head
Premium Burkina Faso Cotton
Unit 1 – The Information Age The Digital Divide The digital divide is the term used to describe the difference between in technology use and availability around the world‚ some factors which affect the digital divide are socioeconomic‚ geographical and the fear of technology. Sub affecting issues are things such as age‚ gender‚ religion‚ income‚ technology available and more. Within the digital divide there are the information ‘haves’ and ‘have-nots’ this creates an inequality around the world
Premium Third World Internet Burkina Faso
from a purification ceremony where they get cut‚ they escape to Colle‚ a woman who refused to have her own daughter Amasatou circumcised. Colle Ardo is an everyday hero in Burkina Faso and by the end of the movie she saves the girls from having to get female genital mutilation. Also‚ she changes the views of people in Burkina Faso. One critic‚ Karen Lindo says‚ “Determined to protect four prepubescent girls from female circumcision‚ the key female protagonist Collé stands up to the Salindana
Premium Female genital cutting Woman Circumcision
Bharti Airtel B H A R T I I N TE L E C O M S | I N D I A From Neutral NOMURA SINGAPORE LIMITED Sachin Gupta‚ CFA +65 6433 6968 Neeraja Natarajan (Associate) sachin.gupta@nomura.com BUY A N C H O R R E P O R T Rumble in the jungle We have reviewed Bharti’s operations in the 15 African countries in which it operates. Apart from learning that Madagascar makes half of the world’s vanilla beans and 4/5 of African gorillas live in Gabon‚ we observe that Bharti is well positioned
Premium Burkina Faso Africa Democratic Republic of the Congo
About half the mankind consists of women but they continued to be treated as second sex all over the world. It’s a man’s world everywhere. She continued to be play second fiddle to man economically; socially sexually they have been born to obey‚ to carry out orders. As mother‚ wife‚ and daughter-in fact‚ in any role she must have man’s protection and without him she is nothing. In Nigeria‚ large number of women is still steeped in ignorance‚ superstition‚ poverty and disease in spite of democracy
Premium United Nations Education Burkina Faso
After the civil war‚ which ended in 2002‚ Sierra Leone has been plagued with malnutrition‚ poverty and hunger‚ which further threatened peace and security in the region for many years. In a report by the UNDP Development Index (2007)‚ about 70 percent of Sierra Leone’s population in 2004 was below the poverty line with 52 percent living on less than US$1 per day. 24 percent of the population could not afford minimum daily calorific requirements. In 2008‚ Sierra Leone was faced with the issue of rising
Premium Agriculture Poverty West Africa
Thomas asserted that the question of gender is not only imperative but fundamentally lies in the explanation of gender transformation beyond the numbers game that sort to misrepresent the fundamental problem of gender and women oppression. That effort of gender adjustment must seek to answer a fundamental question whose efforts is to understand the order that define the oppression of women for it is in the empathetic of such an order that a possibility of alternatives‚ therefore better futures could
Premium Feminism Burkina Faso Gender
valuable‚ notably in dry zones where a large part of fuelwood is harvested outside the forest. Jensen (1995) estimated that the volume in fallows and sparse trees on agricultural lands constitutes approximately 30 percent of the wood resources in Burkina Faso and 19 percent in the Gambia. FOREST MANAGEMENT AND USES Only three of the 16 countries in West Africa provided national-level information on the forest area covered by a formal‚ nationally approved forest management plan (Table 14-1). Of these
Premium Forest West Africa Tropical rainforest
In countries like Burkina Faso‚ Ghana‚ Togo‚ and Mali children are sent away from their families to cocoa farms in exchange for promised money and other useful items for their family. Families will “send their children to work”‚ or basically sell‚ them for promised goods that are usually never received. Even though it is not slavery‚ there are still many moral problems with the cocoa farming. The children work long hours‚ in dangerous conditions‚ for usually nothing more than a bed to sleep in and
Premium Ghana Burkina Faso