Sahel

He has covered stories as diverse as the French and American Presidential elections from 1972 to the present; the famine in the Sahel in 1974 and in Ethiopia in 1984; the Iranian revolution following Ayatollah Khomeini's return to Tehran in 1979, and the Summer Olympics from 1984 through 2004. During his career, Burnett has photographed every U.S. president from John F. Kennedy…

Sachs talks about countries that have barriers like physical geography, culture, and geopolitics, which is harming the growth of their country. In the African Sahel, agriculture is a mainstream economy, but there are issues like rainfall, fertility of land, and animal diseases, that slow down and some cases completely stops the economy (87). There is no reason why Africa’s biggest economy should be agriculture…

EVIDENCE OF GLOBAL WARMING Only a person who has been away from our planet for some time would claim that global warming is not happening. The evidence shows abundantly on all the continents of the world. Several aspects of climate have been affected. For instance, in the temperate zones, the summers are warmer and more humid. Droughts are more frequent, particularly in Africa. Rainfall and snowfall are more intense and, in some cases, quite destructive. Snow (or ice) cover on mountaintops is…

“For far too long, a majority of Africans have been indifferent to misrepresentations about who they are. They have remained ‘objects’ of the ill-informed caricatures of a once glorious heritage disfigured by colonial and postcolonial predators.” Those words were spoken by Chido Nwangwu about slavery. Before slavery, Africa was a very diverse region in the world. There were many successful kingdoms in Africa. Civilization came into existence when people started to leave Africa. Also,…

Mulathaman Battalion (AMB), also known as Those Who Sign in Blood Brigade and is a child of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM). The AMB is considered by the U.S. State Department as “the greatest near-term threat to U.S. and Western interests in the Sahel.” (United States Department of State, 2016) Mokhtar Belmokhtar, an AQIM cell leader, claimed to take the best fighters from AQIM to create an organization to continue the fight against western interests, spread jihad and establish Shariah…

Africa or the North African societies that acquired slaves. Slaves were rarely bought by Arab raiders but most of the time they were bought by North African merchants who bought the slaves from African merchants in the trading towns of the savannah and Sahel. This crime against humanity also known as the Atlantic slave trade was a force of migration for about 15 million people from Africa to the western Hemisphere, in the mid-15th century 15 the 19th century. The slave trade led to a violent…

Sao Paulo, a megacity located on the south-eastern Brazil has been facing an ongoing drought since February 2015 which has been said to be the worst drought the region has been facing in more than 80 years. Although Brazil contains 12% of world’s water, it has been suffering from a drought that has affected a large amount of people all around Sao Paulo and later Rio de Janerio followed by other regions of the country. The reason behind the drought occurring are understood from the anthropogenic…

cases of diabetes mellitus (DM). The prevalence of type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) is not known but there are sketchy reports from various endocrine centers and documented prevalence rates which are all hospital based range from 0.1/1000 to 3.1/1000[Sahel Med J.2013]. It is pertinent to note that in our setting, clinical criteria are often used to classify patients with DM into type 1 and T2DM. These criteria include a cut off age of thirty years and insulin requirements or usage since…

Rivalry for New Markets European economic and military power began shifting and America and Germany rival Britain. The Long Depression pushed Western powers to New Imperialism and lead them to seek out new sources for raw materials. Western powers sought investment opportunities in markets that offer cheap labor and a seemingly endless supply of goods. Strategic Issues The British government was being pressured to overpower their rivals by obtaining markets in East Asia and India. Britain hoped…

In recent decades, the world has encountered dramatic ecological and socioeconomic changes. Situations such as increasing urbanization processes, population growth, expanding poverty, but additionally climate change and the expansion in natural disasters have affected the economic and social advancement in numerous parts of the world. (Makoka and Kaplan, 2016). Growing natural disaster threats do not simply mirror the onset of events, for instance, earthquakes or floods, but additionally the…