Burkina Faso

used diamonds in return for arms from government soldiers or neighboring countries like Liberia or Guinea (Adebajo, 2002; Reno, 2003; Alao, 1999). Taylor exploited diamonds to fund his military activities in Liberia. Mercenaries from Liberia or Burkina Faso were equally active in mining and trading diamonds. The diamond mining industry became a convenient source of income for national soldiers collaborating with the RUF who were suffering from low state salaries (Le Billion, 2013). Finally, the…

Arranged Marriage in West Africa General Purpose: To provide information to my audience. Specific Purpose: To inform my audience about the marriage of the African culture. Central idea: Two people being forced to get married. Significantly different ages or marriages were money are involved. Main point: Poverty and regions beliefs make family to rush their kids into marriage. Effect early marriages have on young girls education. Early marriages expose young girls to health risks. Early…

Introduction The human microbiota is a combination of many different microorganisms, many of which are bacteria. The microorganisms in the human microbiota are referred to as commensal flora. There are an estimated 100 trillion good bacteria in the human body.[7] Most of which are found in the gastro-intestinal tract although they also reside in the skin, the saliva and the mucosa. These bacteria are diverse; there are estimated to be >1000 species in the human gut alone.[7] Bacteria that…

Chinese ejiao's ( i.e. donkey gelatin) producers are asking for a government subsidy on donkey production. In this work, we will see if this subsidy should or not be applied. In this market there is a market failure (when a market doesn't work well, leading to misallocation of resources), created by an externality (a cost on third parties not accounted on the price definition of a good or service1 ). In this case, we have a positive externality of consumption, in which, from the market point…

CACAO The Social Consequences of Cacao Trading on West Africa in the 21st Century INTRODUCTION Since the last century, West African countries (Cote d'Ivoire/Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Cameroon, plus others.) have seen an increment of what is nowadays one of their major exports: Cacao, bean-like seeds used in the production of cocoa, cocoa butter, and chocolate (Oxford Dictionary, 2015). This helped them become the largest cacao producer in the world today, harvesting a…

Rhône-Alpes particularly is involved in strengthening relations and cooperation on a European level, but also internationally. However, the region participated in programmes directed to development of France as a whole. For Rhône-Alpes region are established specific programmes and projects involving partners from different countries, but also collaboration on the international arena. Some of the programmes focused only on issues in particular part of the region itself. URBAN II programme in the…

Mali slightly less than twice size of Texas is a landlocked countries that shares boarders with seven countries round it. It was boarded by Algeria in the North, Mauritania and Senegal in West, Ivory Coast and Guinea in the South and Niger and Burkina Faso in the East. Mali is considered as one of the biggest country in West Africa and ranking at 24th largest country in the world. The geographical areas of Mali are estimated around 478,839 square miles. Mali official’s name is the Republic of…

Summary Macrobiotics is the science that studies the community of microorganisms in a given ecosystem to promote health and balance in the ecosystem. The intestinal microbiota is the population of living microorganisms in the digestive tract. A large part of scientists work deciphering the genome of the microbiota. Today, modern techniques of study of the microbiota have given us a knowledge of a large number of bacteria that are not cultivable, and as such microorganisms that inhabit us, relate…

In my first year high school, I thought I was going to fail. For a while, I was thinking of failing and dropping out of school to find a job. At that time, it sounded like a good idea, During the summer after freshman year, I was having fun and enjoying my time, This was a chance to my mind, without the demands of school. Entering my sophomore year, I felt scared like i wasn't going to make it like i was going to fail, I didn't have an idea on what I wanted to do with myself. With no direction…

Hunger is an environmental and political problem that we face. Even though food production has increased, and is enough to feed the entire population of the world, still there are more than 1 billion people suffering from hunger. In this report we will discuss the causes, effects of hunger, how to stop it, and the history of hunger. Causes: Hunger is caused by two main reasons to hunger. The first is human caused reasons like wars. For example, the second world war has caused a shortage of…