Sudan

Only a few years ago, the idea of preserving education as a central part of all humanitarian efforts was but an afterthought in the minds of aid workers. Nicolai and Triplehorn (2003) state that it was the 1990 's when this crucial truth that education is the right of every child finally germinated and became the soul of humanitarian aid. This demonstrates the high degree of significance and worth that humanitarian aid organizations now place on continuing education in war-ravaged societies…

Libya, Nigeria, Honduras, El Salvador, Myanmar, and Bangladesh. The New York Times would like to share the stories of the displaced children all over the world. Starting with three children, Chuol, Hana, and Oleg. Chuol a nine-year-old boy from South Sudan, Hana a twelve-year-old Syrian girl, and Oleg an eleven-year-old boy from the Ukraine. As a way to create empathy among the masses, they have…

Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North both aligns with, and undercuts, Frantz Fanon’s study of the relations between coloniser and the colonised and between a black man and white woman in Black Skin, White Masks. We can study the areas where Salih’s conception of his characters are in direct conversation with Fanon’s ideas, particularly with Fanon’s distillation of the cause of Jean Veneuse’s neurosis as independent of his race. From the areas where Salih parallels and diverges from…

1. “Lischer introduces three types of military-humanitarian interactions: “humanitarian soldiers,” “aid workers as government agents,” and “humanitarian placebo.” What are the key features of these three types of militarized aid? What are their potential implications for aid organizations and their intended beneficiaries?” “Humanitarian soldiers”- Involving the military in the provision of aid can grow stability and help make allies with other countries. It can also strengthen government…

tests for the presence of starch. Starch turns an intense blue-black color upon addition of iodine. In the absence of starch, the brown colour of the aqueous solution remains. Sudan III is a red dye used for staining fat globules. It has the appearance of reddish brown crystals. Lipid is added to water in a test tube the Sudan III is added. The fat globules stain red and a separate red stained oil layer separates on the surface of the water. Emulsion Test is a method to determine the presence…

for the attacks was “Fight, Allah willing, against the Israeli’s and their allies, in order to pursue justice for the oppressed.” Bin Laden then conducted a fatwa, a formal religious decree, against the United States because they were involved with Sudan. They began a series of bombings on United States’ bases and forces (“Events”).…

Bin Laden communicated to his people and the world through several means. His most powerful means were attacks that he commanded. He was a man of action! Another method that he was really counting on to get his message to the world is the media, television, the Internet and radio. According to Seib "Al-Qaeda and its jihadist brethren use more than 4,000 web sites to encourage the faithful and threaten their enemies"(2008, 74). Even after his death Bin Laden"still has a core leadership…

The Nuer people live in South Sudan surrounding the Nile River, in the marsh and savanna areas on both sides of the Nile. This group of people can also be found in the southwestern areas of Ethiopia. The Nuer people speak an Eastern Sudanic language branching off of the Saharan language group and they get by through cattle raising on farms, and supplying milk, fish and meat to nearby peoples. The land the Nuer people live in, stays flooded nearly half of the year while in a drought the rest of…

Eubank, a former U.S Army Special Forces and Ranger Officer, and an alumnus of Texas A&M University. Currently, he is the director for the Free Burma Rangers (FBR), an organization that offers humanitarian aid to those in the Burma, Kurdistan, and Sudan war zone. While FBR has no religious or racial denomination, David himself is a Christian and believes that his being a follower of Jesus is what has led him to organizing FBR. David emphasized the importance of faith, love, and humility when…

Mercy Corps is a humanitarian aid agency whose main goal is help those struck by disaster. Mercy Corps is all over the world. They are stationed in places like South Sudan, Libya, Lebanon, Haiti, Myanmar, India, Uganda, United States, and Syria, just to name a few. (Mercy Corps website CITE) The reasons for needing aid in these countries include natural disasters and man-made disasters. Natural disasters include earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, floods, avalanches, droughts, storms…