Blood Diamonds: The Conflict in Sierra Leone History of Diamonds: The name "diamond" comes from the Greek word‚ "adamas" meaning unconquerable. Fittingly diamonds are made of pure carbon‚ and diamonds are the hardest natural substance known to man.[1][1] Diamonds have long been a sign of wealth and fortune. Kings and queens have worn these forms of concentrated carbon and even more countless millions people over time have lusted after them. These gems can be transparent‚ truculent white
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Diamonds has played an important role in jewelry industry for years‚ its sparkle and glow made it girl’s best friend. However‚ due to the high prices of all diamonds‚ illegal traders around the world buy illegal diamonds to fund terrorism‚ violence mainly in Africa‚ and to buy weapons to threaten the government and people in African regions. Blood diamonds or converted diamonds is a term used for a diamond mined in a war zone and sold to finance war on the mined country‚ and to buy weapons. This
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in the country of Sierra Leone” Due to the high population growth in Sierra Leone‚ poverty remains widespread throughout the entire country. According to the human development index‚ Sierra Leone is one of the poorest countries in the world‚ which is why the diamond trade is such a large issue. Sierra Leone is among the largest producers of diamonds‚ thus being one of their largest sources of income. Large quantities of high quality diamonds have been mined from Sierra Leone since the mid 1930s
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September 10 2014 As of September 2014‚ a total of 4507 confirmed and probable cases of Ebola virus disease (EVD)‚ as well as 2296 deaths from the virus‚ had been reported from five countries in West Africa — Guinea‚ Liberia‚ Nigeria‚ Senegal‚ and Sierra Leone. In terms of reported morbidity and mortality‚ the current epidemic of EVD is far larger than all previous epidemics combined. The true numbers of cases and deaths are certainly higher. There are numerous reports of symptomatic persons evading
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many things that I would have never gotten the chance to do if I would have stayed in Sierra Leone. This makes me wonder‚ how different my life would have been. Think about how your life was when you were ten years old. For the majority of kids‚ the most important thing they had to worry about was if they did all their homework that night or if they would start in a basketball or soccer game. For me‚ in Sierra Leone in the late 90’s‚ it was whether I could survive another hour of the atrocities that
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The movie is in Sierra Leone in 1999 where ruthless rebel forces called the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) are terrorizing the country and its people. It begins in a small Solomon Vandy’s village is attacked by rebel forces and his family is put in danger. RUF slaughter many of the village people‚ and because killing isn’t enough‚ there are scenes where villager’s hands are cut off to prevent them from voting in elections. Solomon is separated from his family becomes a slave‚ forced to work in
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The Bite of the Mango is the true story of Mariatu Kamara‚ a girl born in Sierra Leone. Sierra Leone‚ an impoverished country on the west coast of Africa‚ was in a horrific civil war while Mariatu was a child. Despite the poverty in her tiny rural village‚ Mariatu’s first few years are happy ones‚ filled with friends‚ games and chores. Mariatu’s father has two wives‚ neither of whom seems very pleasant. Mariatu is given to an auntie to raise‚ which likely would have been a great idea had the village
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implementation weaknesses of the Disarmament‚ Demobilization‚ and Reintegration (DDR) program in Sierra Leone. She used the reintegration program for female soldiers in Sierra Leone as a case because the Sierra Leone’s DDR process is one of the interventions purported to empower both female and male ex-combatants. My primary interest
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Money is the root of evil. A Long Way Gone and The Bite of the Mango are both memoirs of the Sierra Leone Civil War. Although the book does not touch upon the causes of the civil war‚ through research diamonds were a main contributor and a cause of the war. Sierra Leone was embedded with diamonds and other luxurious stones‚ thus making it a gargantuan mining center. Diamonds caused tensions between the government and rebellious citizens‚ contributed to the emergence of the Revolutionary United
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strategies in delivering community based maternal and newborn health care in Kenya and Sierra Leon. According to Gilbert Wangalwa‚ child death has decreased globally from 12.5million in 1990 to 8.8 million in 2008‚ of this figure one third were neonatal death of which has been linked closely to the slow progress in reduction of maternal mortality; approximately 342‚900 maternal death each year. In Kenya and Sierra Leone just like other sub Saharan African countries the rate of child and maternal mortality
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