Congo and Tanzania Essay

I grew up in Africa, the Democratic Republic of Congo. I really don’t remember much about it, I just remember when we had to move a lot because of war. Every time but my family found a place where we stayed until I was seven. We stayed in Tanzania in a town called Nyarugusu. Everybody used to fear that place, but I didn’t know why. At night time my dad never wanted me to be outside. If he found me outside I would be in so much trouble. It was not a bad Some people dream of success... while…

and significant economic drivers. The Mombasa Port is the main linkage to East and Central Africa. It is the largest port in the country that connects the Northern Corridor Countries of Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Northern Tanzania, South Sudan and Ethiopia (See map 1 below). The Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) mandate is: regulation, development, and operation of all the ports along the Kenya’s coastline. In 2014 cargo totaling 24.875 million tons passed through…

The African country, Rwanda is divided up by two ethnic groups, Tutsi and Hutus. Tutsi made up about 15 percent of the population and the Hutus made up about 85 percent. Throughout the years both these group have had conflict between each other. The one that stands out the most is the Rwandan genocide. Rwanda can be broken up into three different topics,the events that lead up to the genocide, the genocide, and rebuilding process from the tragedy. The Hutu were people who farmed crops, while…

Introduction Burundi is situated in the continent of Africa and the capital city of Burundi is Bujumbura. Rwanda, Tanzania and Democratic Republic of the Congo are its neighbouring countries. 62.1% of people in Burundi are catholic because Christianity is Burundi’s main religion. The population is divided into two main groups called the Hutu and the Tutsi. Hutu forms around 85% of the Burundian population and Tutsi takes up around 14%. In 1993-2005 there was a civil war between Hutu and Tutsi…

Rwanda gaining independence did not help to cease the violence. However, the gaining of independence peeked the interest of the Tutsis that had earlier fled to Tanzania and Zaire escape the violence. The Tutsi began organizing attacks on Hutu civilians and their government. Between 1962 and 1967 Tutsi carried out roughly ten different attacks that led to high numbers of Tutsi. At the end of the 1980s, 480,000 Rwandan…

especially in Africa. In a report done by Wanjohi Kabukuru (2013), he describes how poaching is hurting African economies, mainly through tourism. The East African Community (EAC) nations that include Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, and Burundi and parts of the DRC (Democratic Republic of the Congo) rely on tourism as a key sector of their economies, and poaching is directly negatively affecting tourism in these areas (Kabukuru, 2013). To put it into perspective, according to Kabukuru (2013)…

In 2004 I got the first information that my wife was alive. My friend, who was from another ethnic group, gave me this news. Hey said she might be in Tanzania, or maybe Congo, but, she never died. When they killed all those people in the church, she was in with the dead people, along with four other women. She had to sleep with the dead people to hide and stay alive. But when it was over, people knew she didn’t die because they didn’t see her die and didn’t find her after. They said they didn’t…

The purpose of this research paper is to clearly define the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the South African Development Community (SADC). The two agreements selected are both vastly different and the few similarities between the two are thoroughly discussed. Conflict management protocols that each nation uses will provide a further understanding of the many differences. The goals of each agreement are examined to further understand the future of the NAFTA and SADC nations. The…

allows him and other scientists to see where chimps are most at risk and design conservation strategies. Chimpanzees in the region used to live in an uninterrupted belt of forest and woodlands from Lake Tanganyika westward through Uganda and the Congo Basin to western Africa. In the early 1970s, 10 or so years after Jane Goodall first arrived in the region and began observing chimpanzees, that forest began to be cut down. Increased pressures on the land from a population explosion as well as…

Bobby Chavez-Gates Coach Smith AP Human Geography 11/28/17 The Battle of the Mirror: Rwanda War Ethnicity refers to how one identifies themselves based on their cultural tradition and values. Race is the grouping of people based on similar physical traits, such as hair and skin color. Often times, complex and numerous ethnicities exists within the same land and even race; these differentiations assist in promoting discrimination, tensions, and sometimes war. Rwanda, in the mid 1900s,…