Democratic Republic of the Congo

Children in Rwanda became orphans because of the Rwanda genocide and the spread of HIV/AIDS. During the Rwandan genocide many people were killed, including family members leaving the children without any parents. With the spread of HIV/AIDS, family members also died from it, so the children in Rwanda became orphans. Some orphans are placed in extended families or fostering households. If they did not have anyone, then they were placed in the orphanages. Being an orphan in Rwanda came from the…

Global Pattern- Malaria Figure 1: global malaria distribution figure 2: global distribution of malaria mosquito Geographic Distribution of Malaria As shown on figure 1, the risk of malaria disease is concentrated between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn, such as Sub-Sahara in Africa, north of South America and Southeast of Asia. Malaria is more concentrated here because these areas have similar patterns such breeding of Anopheles mosquito. This is due to…

Catch: From 1956-1992 Canada was the the United Nations (UN) Peacekeeping Force largest and single contributor,but dramatically decreased after 1992. Canada in 2011, was 57th of the 193 UN member states. Background Information: A peacekeeping nation, is a country that strives on helping developing countries, and countries in crisis. Also, a peacekeeping nation is one that doesn’t discriminate, maintains peace in its own country, and helps the United Nations (UN) by contributing money and…

Out of the 84,995 refugees that the U.S. took in in 2016, three countries made up over half of that incoming population (Facts about the Syrian Refugees, 2015). The Democratic Republic of the Congo, which is a rather large country in central Africa, had over 16,370 refuges come inside Americas borders. Syria followed in a close second with 12,587, which exceeded the goal of resettling 10,000 Syrian refugees (Connor, 2016). In third…

to a million times better. For Example, as in February they provided immediate help to a hospital in Syria that got hit by an air strike. They did many other first-responding projects such as closing a project in North Kivu Province, Democratic Republic of Congo , after armed actors attacked one of their convoys and abducted two of their staff members they got them back and closed the search project. MSF helps people all over the world and provides all medical and equality help. No matter who…

Slavery is a significant part and issue of history, it has been for years. Up to this day, in several countries slavery is abolished yet in other countries it is not. Or so it is said to be against the law but the reality is that, it is known there are other practices that just have a different name but it is the exact same thing as slavery. (Dixon, 2013 para. #5) the main country we will be focusing on is Africa because it is one of the most populated countries with enslaved people still today.…

Fulfilling the will of Alfred Nobel, the Nobel Peace Prize recognizes and awards those who “have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding of peace congresses” (Nobelprize.org). For over 100 years, the Norwegian Nobel Committee chooses awardees based on the criteria specified by Alfred Nobel. The outstanding works of Nelson Mandela, Elie Wiesel, Mother Teresa, and Malala Yousafzai all have one thing in…

organ failure and death. There is no known cure at this time. In West Africa the current outbreak is the worst it 's ever been, but this is not the first. The first was in 1976, two cases appeared in Zaire, Sudan, and other in Samburu, Democratic Republic of Congo. The virus was named after the Ebola River in the village where it occurred. Thousands of people are dying each day from the Ebola virus in West Africa. The lack of medical care in the African countries have attributed to this. There…

Somalia is consistently seen as a failed state, undeniably it could be argued that it is the classic case as Liberia, Sierra Leone and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). As Messner (2013) argues, “it is also indubitable that the plan to build and sustain a modern state, with internal and external sovereignty as its defining characteristics has failed in Somalia.” However, Robert W. Cox (2209) adds, “many works in political science dealing with Somalia are written from a ‘problem-solving…

When the bubonic plague had the most impact in medieval times it had tremendous psychological impact on those that were infected and those who were not. In those times people believe it was god bringing about a great pestilence for those who sinned. With more and more people dying everyday people turned away or toward the church to try and repent for their sins and seal their way into heaven. In fact, the onset of this bacterium was so severe that people began to blame Jews for the reason why…