Liberia

The Problem of Child Soldiers: The Case of CAR After the Second World War, the nature wars have changed. They are no longer between states or alliances. They are within states. Usually as a result of parties within states rising up against unfair treatment, inequitable distribution of wealth that have led to economic disparities, control of resources, corruption or disdain for other ethnic groups within the same country. Reasons for the new phenomenon surrounding conflicts have not changed the…

As stated by Anderson, S., Peterson, M., & Tops, S., “ Africa is perhaps the least understood continent in the world. Misperceptions about African civilization and peoples have abandoned since European traders, slavers, and imperialists came into greater contact with Africans in the sixteenth century.” Africa located in a very special region, i.e. between Americans Continents, Europe, Asia, and Australia continents. It is bounded by the Atlantic Ocean on the west, the Mediterranean Sea on the…

the beginning of the 1991 conflict. There has thus arisen some social concern over what the effects may be of a generation raised without access to formal education. This is one advantage recognised by refugees who have crossed over into Guinea and Liberia—relief agencies usually provide free schooling for refugee children and youth. The United Nations estimates that Sierra Leone has the highest death rate in the world, and the second highest infant morality rate (195 out of every 1,000 infants…

occupied a vast amount of West Africa and the Germans were prideful in having control over modern-day Tanzania and Namibia, as well as having the Portuguese exerted full dominance over Angola and Mozambique. Ethiopia and the African-American state of Liberia remained the last ones to be independent. European conflict was spreading and contagious as other nations were over raiding…

While these are large numbers, the man in the cartoon only seems concerned about one thing, the Ebola outbreak. This outbreak has around four thousand deaths to its name. From Pulse.com it states that, “Liberia, in fact, was proclaimed Ebola-free by May 2015, with a total of 4,806 deaths during the outbreak.” If you look at all of these numbers side by side, you can see a giant difference in the vast numbers of which many people don’t pay attention to verses…

The infected bioterrorist, could check into a resort hotel and await the onset of the fever that would indicate that their Zaire ebolavirus is now contagious. The next phase of the attack would begin with the infected, and contagious, terrorist making visits to Walt Disney World, restaurants, or other areas with crowds of people. The Florida heat and humidity would provide perfect cover for the feverish and sweating terrorist as they make physical contact by way of casual brushing up against…

The first Ebola epidemic was in West Africa in 2014. The countries hit hardest by the virus as well as the rest of the world was at a loss as to how to control the disease and minimize the number of people infected. Since the epidemic, scientists have been able to create a number of treatment drugs to help minimize the morbidity rate and help control the next outbreak. There currently is not an established treatment drug or vaccine for Ebola, but there are a number of different options in the…

spend more time in the classroom than outside searching for water miles away from their communities. People like Saran Kaba Jones (Kermeliotis, 2013), have worked to improve clean water systems within poor rural areas in developing countries like Liberia; whose original water systems were destroyed by a civil war. Communities can improve their water system with…

Access to mental health care has been a growing problem for many individuals in communities, especially minority communities. These minority groups lack access to mental health care because either they can’t afford the services or simply they are denied the service. As a result, those who have mental and behavioral issues don’t perform as well in school, they tend to get in trouble more often and their health begins to deteriorate. In a study done by Sontag-Padilla et al. (2016), they tested…

The colonization of Africa began in 1884 with the Berlin Conference. On this conference, the Western European powers decided to split up the land and resources of Africa among themselves (Rosenberg, 2004). This period of history became known as the Scramble for Africa. The Scramble for Africa occurred because as the slave trade ended, capitalists saw Africa as a continent that they could now exploit and through legitimate trade, they found new ways to make money of the continent (Michalopoulos &…