Djibouti

When she was 16, she witnessed their murder. Sahara and her grandmother were the only ones left, so they fled the country due to all of the violence and trouble. The walked a majority of the way, but had to ride on boat to get from the Coast of Djibouti to Yemen. Sadly, Sahara’s grandmother passed away due to her health condition, so she was on her own. She met a man and he proposed to get married, but she declined and she kept on her way. Thankfully, she got taken in by UNHCR and she stayed…

the country was given to the UN. In 1960 the Republic of Somalia was created from British Somalia and Italian Somalia. This is why people in Somali can speak English and others can speak Italian. Neighboring countries include Kenya, Ethiopia, and Djibouti. Above Somalia is the Gulf of Aden and east of it is the Indian Ocean. Somali and Arabic are the official…

including drones in today’s warfare is that it is diplomatic. Like planes, drones need somewhere to land, and being that they are ‘military’ drones, it needs to be a safe and secure place. The United States has secured airfield use in countries including Djibouti, Saudi Arabia, and the…

Female Genital Mutilation Women have a long history of enduring painful and degrading things for the sake of propriety and societal beliefs and values. One such endurance is female genital mutilation; also known as female genital cutting or female circumcision. This is when a woman’s genitals are purposefully disfigured to adhere to certain religious, social, or personal expectations. Female circumcision involves too many factors to be looked at as a simple medical procedure. When discussing…

Food. The literal bread and butter of civilization itself. The foundation of survival. The pedestal for progress. It truly is surprising… In this golden age of technology and era of betterment, something as basic as food should be a given. But it is not. In many places in the world, food is but a luxury. Food security, as defined by the United Nations World Food Summit of 1996, exists when “when all people at all times have access to sufficient, safe, nutritious food to maintain a healthy and…

Australia. There are 10 main coral reefs that are very large in size besides the reef I already mentioned. I already spoke of the biggest one which is the Great Barrier Reef (Australia). There’s the Red Sea Coral Reef (Red Sea near Israel, Egypt and Djibouti), New Caledonia Barrier Reef (Pacific ocean near New Caledonia, The Mesoamerican Barrier Reef (Atlantic Ocean near Mexico, Belize, Guatemala and Honduras), Florida Reef (Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico near Florida), Andros Coral Reef…

4.2.5. The Fantale geothermal prospect area The Fantale geothermal prospect is characterized by recent summit felsic lava, caldera collapse, extrusions in the caldera bottom and widespread fumarolic activity, signifying thereby the existence of a shallow magma chamber (Tekelemariam and Beyene, 2005). Active tensional tectonics form fissures up to 2m near the volcanic complex. From the area ground water discharge to the system is guaranteed by the proximity of the area to the western escarpment.…

However, it is important to address how and why so many regions in the globe still regularly perform the procedure. Prevalence rates are high among Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, and Sudan, among others (Krick 41). Many speculate that religion plays a large role in the practice, however research has had a hard time defining “religion” due to the many ways a religion can be interpreted (Hayford…

takfir, the excommunication of apostates or unbelievers. Though it has stated many goals in the past, the group fights first and foremost to create a fundamentalist Islamic state in the Horn of Africa that would include not only Somalia but also Djibouti, Kenya, and Ethiopia. Islamism and Salafism served to express commonalities and build alliances against shared enemies who happened to be world powers such as the USA or the USSR. The leadership of Al-Shabab describes the ideology in parallel…

Rubble collapses under the feet of children as they examine the wreckage, fire and smoke scatter throughout the area, mothers beckon their children to come inside, and shock stretches across the faces of natives. Why and what for? Uses of military drones have faced many fiery debates in recent times. Articles and open letters, some with biased information about the reality of drone warfare and its effects, recently started causing uproar, despite years of drone usage in the military. Doyle…