Sierra Leone

In Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, the Ebola virus was quickly widespread. Some countries banned flights from those infected areas for the safety of their own population. Although flight bans seem to be an easy solution to the problem, they can lead to negative outcomes. Flight bans could negatively affect societies because the virus would be less contained, researchers would have trouble working, and economies would ultimately change. Since there is no known cure for the virus, people have…

Sierra Leone is located in west Africa bordering the North Atlantic Ocean. It has an area of 71,740 square kilometers. It has nearly 402 km of coastline. The climate is tropical and humid all year. Rainfall along the coast can reach 495 cm (195 inches) a year, making it one of the wettest places along coastal, western Africa. The land use is 56.2% in Sierra Leone. Sierra Leone has a natural resource of diamonds, titanium, and iron gold. The winds blow from the Sahara desert to Sierra Leone…

needed in the relevant state. This can be seen in Sierra Leone, as initially developed countries did not supply any troops to the UNAMSIL mission, as the “financial and social burdens” appeared to high (Evoe, 2008, p86). This resulted in a largely “underequipped” UNAMSIL and ECOMOG force prior to British military intervention, which as Pickering explains consequently “failed to pose a credible threat to the RUF” (2009, p26). In the case of Sierra Leone, various forces were present to try and…

clearly exaggerated, including amplifying the severity of the situation after the rebels attacked Freetown, and the amount of time he spent as a soldier (that is, if he spent any time at all.) Muctaru Wurie, the author of “Ishmael Beah’s Memoirs of Sierra Leone War – A Long Way From The Truth,” lived in Freetown during the same time, and described the situation much differently than what is depicted in A Long Way Gone. Wurie says the day after the May 25 coup, everyone had gone to the center of…

A Long Way Gone by: Ishmael Beah Chapter 1 Ishmael (main character) ten years old describes the idea of war as entirely abstract to his young mind and insists that he and his fellow villagers didn't have the capacity to understand what the refugees coming through his village had experienced Ishmael, Junior, Talloi, and Mohamed sing rap music- learned during visit to Mobimbi (fathers and other foreigners worked for an American company) music has defined how they dress and speak January 1993- set…

For some, death is close, closer than they could ever imagine. A volunteer doctor returned from Liberia several weeks ago. Now, he is extremely sick and results show that he has Ebola. This means others may also have Ebola. It’s already too late. Currently, there is an ongoing heated debate on whether or not travelers returning from Ebola plagued nations should be forced into quarantine upon arrival to the United States. Travelers returning from Ebola plagued should be forced into quarantine…

explanation of the outbreak in Sierra Leon and how it influences people’s perception and the response to Ebola from both the political and social perceptive, is one of my favourite reading as it correlates to the topics discuss in lectures so far. As he demonstrated, structural violence in this case must be understood in the context of a regional history and global economy that have cultivated inequalities. For instance, it is no coincidence that Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone are resource…

Introduction: De Beers is an association of companies that dominate any things related to diamond such us diamond trading, diamond mining, diamond shops and industrial diamond manufacturing sectors. The company was established in 1888 by British businessman Cecil Rhodes and funded by London-based N M Rothschild & Sons bank and the South African diamond magnate Alfred Beit. They have many places for mining like Botswana, Namibia, South Africa and Canada.However; there was a big debate about some…

cultural experience for me because it educated me on the history of wars throughout Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Congo that I had no idea existed. “Beasts of No Nation” tells the story of a young…

A Book Review of Where is the Mango Princess and the Effects of Traumatic Brain Injury Where is the Mango Princess is a tragic, heart wrenching, and deeply personal account of how traumatic brain injury affected the life of, author, Cathy Crimmins (2000) and the lives of her entire family. Crimmins wrote this account in order to share her experience of living and caring for a person with traumatic brain injury (TBI) and to help those in the same position as her to cope with the myriad of…