Maria Kearney Ms. Keilman p2 5/18/2012 Sub-Saharan Africa Current Event Kony 2012 http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/k/joseph_kony/index.html Joseph Kony is a man from Uganda‚ Africa. He is a man who kidnaps children from Uganda and forces them to kill their parents. He used girls as sex slaves and boys to be in his army. He kidnapped up to 30‚000 children a made an army called the LMA. He has killed thousands of children‚ and is still going. He is the number one criminal
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Central‚ and South America. These two overlapping waves of transcontinental slave trading made the slave trade central to the economies of many African states and threatened many more Africans with enslavement‚ and can to be known as the Trans-Saharan and Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. The merchants who traded slaves on the coast to European ship captains – for example the Vili traders north of the Congo‚ the Efik in the Bight of Biafra‚ and behind them the groups
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boom of economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa? What four factors have been fueling this growth? The main evidence of the boom in Sub-Saharan Africa is that seven of the ten fastest-developing world’s economies are in Africa. Some countries have witnessed the growth of the income per capita while other countries show stable rates of economic growth locking new investors‚ and creating new opportunities for further development of industries in the region. The Sub-Saharan countries increase their participation
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Promoting Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment in Sub-Saharan Countries Nasim Basiri EFL University‚ India ‚ 2013 nasimbasiri@gmail.com[->0] INTRODUCTION For centuries women were not treated equal to men in many ways. They were not allowed to own property‚ they did not have a Share in the property of their parents‚ they had no voting rights‚ they had no freedom to choose their work or job and so on. Now that we have come out of those dark days of oppression of women there is a need
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interpretation regarding the nature and causes of the ongoing issues around nationalism‚ ethnicity and stately power in sub-Saharan Africa since decolonization. Colonial occupation and the manner in which independence was gained and free states were organized may be a possible explanation for the matters of contention revolving around ethnicity‚ nationalism‚ and states in Sub-Saharan Africa to this day. A first part will expose the reasons for multiple ethnicities being situated in the same territory
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Even though they had differences‚ such as religions‚ origins‚ and organization‚ they are similar in many political‚ economical‚ and social aspects‚ such as in their unity‚ principles‚ and trade. Post Classical Western Europe and Post Classical Sub Saharan Africa had differences and similarities in their political organization. SSA used stateless societies‚ while manorialism and feudalism were used in Western Europe. Western Europe was unified and controlled by Christianity and the Catholic Church and
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I picked the second quote‚ “trans fats should not be banned. Consumers should make their own choices about what they eat. The government should educate the population about the risks of eating foods with Trans fats‚ but then let people make their own decisions.” The way I look at this situation is‚ we do a lot of bad things to our bodies. We eat fast food‚ sugars‚ drink alcohol and plenty more. Everything that we take into our body systems‚ has some type of effect on our bodies‚ whether it be causing
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What is the Cause of the High Maternal Mortality Rate in Sub-Saharan Africa? The causes could total 50 or they could be only one‚ what are the primary causes of the high maternal mortality rate in sub-Saharan Africa? There are 4 major reasons why this impoverished region of the world grapples with such a challenge. First and foremost is the magnitude of poverty in the region. Secondly‚ the lack of maternal services available to the population both pre and post delivery. Thirdly‚ the lack education
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more they still wallow in poverty largely as a result of the leadership strategies that have been continuously adopted by the elite. At the beginning of this paper‚ I tried to define development and either way you look at it‚ the leaders in Sub Saharan Africa have in many occasions got the development agenda wrong for their countries. For instance let us assume that their intention was to create wealth even without minding so much about the well being of the citizens‚ in many instances such wealth
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