Democratic Republic of the Congo

They were attacking villages and abducting children in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) during the Peace Talks by the order of Joseph Kony. When the Final Peace Agreement was ready to be signed, Joseph Kony was nowhere to be found, repeating postponing the signing date or just didn’t feel like coming. It is believed…

The Democratic Republic of the Congo’s official independence movement lasted only one year. Even though there had been a lot of resistance by the Congo people to Belgian rule since the 1800’s, the people did not seriously consider gaining independence until the 1950’s. The independence movement officially started in January 1959. This period in history was a perfect time for the people of the Congo to stand up to Belgium. This is because after World War Two Belgium was not in a good condition…

most severe outbreak we have ever seen since its discovery in 1976. This essay aims to talk about what the EVD is, the current epidemic and the risk for people around the world. Ebolavirus is named after the Ebola River in Zaire (now The Democratic Republic of Congo) in 1976. The first outbreak of EVD infected over 300 people in Zaire and Sudan and had a mortality rate of 54% (Stanford University). The natural host for Ebola has never been confirmed though it has recently been suggested that…

malnutrition. The Central African Republic is the sixth poorest country in the world having $768 gross domestic product per capita. “The proportion of Central Africans living on one dollar a day has decreased slightly to sixty-two percent, but it need to be half of that I order to reach the 2015 goal” (20 Poorest Countries in the world). Although it has mineral resources, such as uranium reserves, crude oil, gold, diamonds, lumber, and hydropower, the Central African Republic remains in the top…

further review would be the Dodd-Frank Act. When the Dodd-Frank Act was signed, it included a provision that public corporations must be able to prove their sourced minerals are not coming from places that are financing conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo or an adjoining country, but further review of this policy has shown it to have negative impact for our economy and smaller businesses. The provision included the following minerals: tantalum, tin, gold and tungsten. After further…

precision guided missiles, and computers. As the supply of minerals in the United States decreases, the demand has increased by over 65% . To compensate for this issue, the United States has started importing minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo. The minerals mined in the Congo are problematic because they are only made possible because of slavery-like conditions for laborers.…

The Congo –HIV/Aids By Maddison Amoroso: The Congo is a dangerous place in Central Africa. They suffer from poverty, diseases aids and HIV, a high rate of underage marriages and childbirth, in 2013, around 700 newborn babies were infected every day with Aids or HIV, but only 24% of the children who needed antiretroviral treatment (ART) received treatment causing 190,000 children to die. The Congo has the most serious HIV and Aids case in the world. Over 24.7 million people living in the Congo…

countries should attack the leaders who authorized the act. One is reason for this is: In 2012, for example, it announced it would withhold military financing from the Democratic Republic of Congo and training from a Congolese battalion until Congo signed an action plan with the United Nations to end its use of child soldiers. Congo had been dragging its feet for seven years on signing the plan, but agreed to its terms only five days after the U.S.…

world’s newest country. Sudan and South Sudan are located in the northeast of North Africa. Sudan is surrounded by the countries Egypt, Ethiopia, Eritrea, South Sudan, the Central African Republic, Chad, and Libya. While the countries that border South Sudan are Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, the Democratic…

Ebola was first discovered in 1976 in two African countries- Sudan and Democratic Republic of Congo. Democratic Republic of Congo had a river named the Ebola River. The Ebola virus was later named after that river where in a nearby village had an outbreak of the disease. The Ebola virus is also known as Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever. Genus Ebolavirus has five distinct species which include Bundibugyo Ebolavirus, Zaire Ebolavirus, Reston Ebolavirus, Sudan Ebolavirus, and Tai Forest Ebolavirus (WHO |…