Republic of the Congo

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 in the third world that managed to provide them with raw materials. These countries provided lifeblood to some U.S. industries and the Congo was no different. The Congo, particularly the Katanga region, had heavy mining industries that managed to produce things such as uranium. Most of the uranium used in the Manhattan project was provided by the Belgian Congo. Once Lumumba brought the Soviet Union into the situation by receiving their aid and weapons in an attempt to stabilize the…

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 and in the article, evidence of old imperialism was found. BBC said, “Nearly half the population lives in poverty, according to the World Bank, even though the Republic of Congo is one of sub-Saharan Africa's main oil producers. Oil is the mainstay of the economy…” (Republic of Congo Country Profile). This shows that the Congo, and actually many countries in Africa, still haven’t recovered from its terrible treatment in the 1900s under the rule of King Leopold and Belgium. The Congo…

Nzara, Sudan and Yambuku, Democratic Republic of the Congo (formally Zaire), comprising 151 and 280 cases, respectively. The higher case fatality rate was associated with Yambuku, 88%. Since that time other large-scale outbreaks have occurred: 1995, Democratic Republic of the Congo(315 cases, mortality 81%); 2000-2001, Uganda (425 cases, mortality 53%); 2003, Democratic Republic of the Congo(143 cases, mortality 89%; and 2007-2008, Democratic Republic of the Congo(149 cases, mortality 25%).…

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…

Resistance Army For more than 25 years, an army of mostly child soldiers led by a man named Joseph Kony have been massacring and kidnapping civilians throughout Uganda. This conflict has since spread into other regions such as the Democratic Republic of Congo and areas of southern Sudan. Despite several attempts at meetings in addition to arrest warrants from the International Criminal Court against Kony and his troops, this war still rages on as one of the longest-running conflicts in African…

belongs to the Mbudye Society, a council of both men and women who are responsible for interpreting the political values of the Luba state. The Lukasa (memory board) was estimated to be created between the 19th and 20th century in the Democratic Republic of Congo, home of the Luba people. Although many Lukasa use shells and beads studded to the wooden surface, the wood-sculpture pictured has incised designs and carved images in the relief; however, they both still communicate historical…

“All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.” Winston Churchill saw the importance of honor, but what is honor? The level of respect that society holds us up to, this is honor. Honor is a timeless aspect of our society, yet is always changing because of time. The definition of honor in America, is the same, but the picture of honor has changed over time. Today, honor is more commonly known as respect. As always, men…

albeit “social facts,” regarding observable behavior and the products of that behavior, including the rules, groups, and institutions that shape people’s lives” (Eller 20). The Mbuti Pygmies are originally an ethnic group from eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and Northern Zaire.…