Congo and Tanzania Essay

Uganda is a landlocked country, located in East Africa. Kenya borders Uganda to the East, South Sudan to the North, to the West by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and to the South by Tanzania. The current population estimate is 37,873,253. Ugandans can be classified into several broad linguistic groups: The Bantu-speaking majority, who live in the central, southern and western parts of the country; and non-Bantu speakers who occupy the eastern, northern and northwestern portions of the…

more than five hundred thousand people died within one hundred days. The key event that started the genocide, although not the only reason, was the assassination of the president of Rwanda, Juvenal Habyarimana. He was returning from a summit in Tanzania when a missile shot his plane out of the sky over the capital city of Rwanda, Kigali, all on board were killed in the crash. The Hutu extremists took over the government within twenty-four hours of the assassination, blamed the Tutsi, and began…

Africa’s largest “Lake Victoria.” Uganda is agricultural land locked country found in East Africa bordered by Kenya in east, South Sudan in north, Democratic Republic of Congo in west, Rwanda in south west and Tanzania in South. It is the country with the largest number of refugees second to Turkey in the whole world from South Sudan, Congo, Somalia and Burundi passing through Rwanda. Uganda is commonly referred to as “The pearl of Africa” because of its climate. “ Tropical climate ” and…

For many years and until this very moment, people around the globe have been suffering from lack of access to drinkable water, hygiene and sanitation. According to the World Health Organization, 2.5 billion people do not have access to decent sanitation. More, almost a billion people defecate in open areas. The lack in proper sanitation and access to sanitation at all causes “1.8 billion people to use source of drinking water fecally contaminated” (WHO). The issue of sanitation and access to…

and he did all he could to protect his family and hundreds of others at a hotel (George). Newbury points out "During and after the genocide in Rwanda in 1994, hundreds of thousands of people (mostly Hutu) fled to neighboring countries - primarily Tanzania and Zaire…

Explain how did the holocaust and Rwandan genocide affect the history and people's life? The novel Night is all about survival. It is a story narrated by a boy named Eliezer represented Wiesel in this Novel. It is a true story of what happened to a teenage boy living in signet, a small town in Transylvania during world war 2. This story revolves around the rule of Nazism and the keen efforts of the people for their survival. The second one is Rwandan genocide. The Rwandan genocide, on the other…

In 1961, Rwanda receives their self-determination from Belgium. The Belgians gave Hutu 's control of the over public actions under which, Tutsis are managed as lesser subjects. Later on in 1985 a social event known as The Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), formed to demand an end to social segregation against the Tutsis. 1990 came around and the RPF radical from Uganda assaulted Rwanda, in hatred to starting a typical war against the Tutsi. In April of 1994 is the point at which everything started,…

Between the dates of April 6 and July 1994, nearly one million citizens of Rwanda’s seven million population were massacred in an effort to exterminate Rwanda’s Tutsi population (Klinghoffer 3). Neighbors killed neighbors. Torture, rape, looting, and exile ensued. People who had been living together for decades, sharing the same language, culture, and religion became enemies. The violence was genocide-- a deliberate, systematic annihilation of Rwanda’s racially-defined Tutsi group (Straus 1). In…

Nile. Although the Nile river is the longest river in the world it’s water supply is limited and so the water supply is governed by the water-sharing treaty act with the number of upstream countries it flows through like Tanzania, Rwanda, Uganda, Burundi, DRC, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Congo, South Sudan and Sudan. The White Nile is the primary source of the Nile River and it begins out of the Great Lakes region, the Blue Nile is the second major source of the river and it begins in Lake Tana of…

created and carried out explicitly for refugees can often lead to broader utilization by the host countries population. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Uganda saw an influx of refugees from Kenya, Rwanda, Sudan, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo in its education sector. In specific, schools that were built for the refugee children served local students — who otherwise might not have gone to school at all — as well. The presence of the…