Central Africa

approximately 67 ethnicities do not since they only make up for 12%. This created the image that Ethiopia was a strong empire, because only 2 to 3 ethnicities had the majority, and they worked well together. According to a New York Times article, “The central government presides over a federalist system that, on paper, ensures equal rights for the more than 80 ethnic groups in Ethiopia. But many Oromo activists complain of political and socioeconomic marginalization that stretches back…

enough food to feed their populace and often depend on imports [1]. Other factors such as poverty, climate change, increasing population and conflict among others continue to prevent a significant proportion from having access to food. Sub-Saharan Africa contributes most to the global level of food insecurity. According to the global food insecurity index, the region had the lowest scores in terms of affordability (29.6), availability (45.2), and quality and safety (38.1). Even though the…

The case studies of the state of food insecurity in the world (2014) report shows that those regions such as Africa and the Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as individual countries have strengthened their political commitment to food security and nutrition. Reforestation of mangroves in xai –xai District of Mozambique restored the ecosystem and in turn…

indigenous economic activities before the arrival of the Europeans. Whiles the section colonialGold Coast also traces the reasons for European incursion in the Gold Coast and the economic reasons for the transportation of masses of people out of Africa to various parts of Europe and the New world. The abolishing of slave trade and its…

The RCP8.5 Future of Sub-Saharan Africa and High Northern Latitudes by 2100 1. Introduction 1.1 RCPs and RCP8.5 RCPs is short for Representative Concentration Pathways, which are a set of four new scenarios defined by their approximate total radiative forcing in 2100 relative 1750: 2.6 W/m2 for RCP2.6, 4.5 W/m2 for RCP4.5, 6.0 W/m2 for RCP6.0, and 8.5 W/m2 for RCP8.5, for the Fifth Assessment Report of IPCC. RCP2.6 represents a mitigation scenario resulting in a very low forcing level. RCP4.5…

the religion of Palo is quite a beautiful one. History of Palo It is the blending of African shamanic religion with elements of Spiritism, magic and Catholicism to create the beliefs surrounding Palo. Palo originated from the Congo religion of Africa, and was brought to the western world by the slaves in the 1500s (Kambon, 2008; Montenegro 1994). According to Montenegro (1994), the influence…

Ever since UNICEF initiated their activities in Africa, in general, and in Nigeria in particular, the organization has met with numerous difficulties and rather struggle to deliver their services to the community in the righteous way. Nigerian community has an extensive distrust with Western culture, the people are compelled to have negative expectations toward Western organizations, especially ones that work through the government such as UNICEF. (Obadare, 2005) The reason behind this…

Technology in Boston, said after the murder of Patrice Lumumba, former Prime Minister of the DRC, on January the 17th 1961. Unfortunately, he saw right. Since a few decades now, it has been widely observed that the Democratic Republic of Congo, a Central African developing country and former Belgian colony, has been the stage of great instability; and notably massive human trafficking, both ingoing and outgoing, for forced prostitution but also forced labor. Children are often used by…

Corps is an important partner of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), bringing aid, awareness, and methods for preventing the pandemic's spread to the countries most affected by it such as those in the Caribbean, Africa, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia. Another international issue that the Peace Corps plays an important role in is the battle for gender equality. Worldwide, many women face…

Analysing the poem: When the first slave was brought to the Cape by Shabbir Banoobhai “In South Africa poetry has offered a ringing voice at a time of enforced silence, and vision of presence and complexity at a time when even the humanity of black people was denied. Poets tell the secret histories of what happens in plain sight, and give voice to what is suppressed. They register munite shifts in the air in an era, and translate the orders of consciousness and the body into the delicate,…