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    Union and Dwayne Wade famous NBA star got engaged in August 30, 2014. Their romantic wedding was held in a 19,000 square foot castle in Florida. Upon the marriage, Union became a stepmother to Xavier and Wade's two elder sons from his first marriage, Zaire, and Zion. Union said in a interview that after they got married that they went and signed a prenuptial agreement to protect their individual assets. Gabrielle has won over 10 awards in 10 different categories, and is still making her way in…

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    evaluating the effects of IGOs is by listing the corruption promulgated by the excessive amount of donor foreign aid that flows through SSA countries (Moyo 2009). He discussed how in 1978, IMF received a report warning not to provide aid to the country of Zaire (now Republic of Congo) due to wide corruption in its central…

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    Ebola Virus

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    as filoviruses”. (Sherpa, K. K. (2014) According to Sherpa, K. K. (2014). “There are four different strains of the Ebola virus - Zaire(EBOZ), Sudan (EBOS), Tai (EBOT) and Reston (EBOR)”. These different strains hold only small differences in gene. The strain known as the “Reston Strain” does not have an effect on human beings. Ebola was first named after a river in Zaire; Africa called the Ebola River where the first outbreak was documented back in 1976. According to…

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    The first focus question is What happened in Rwanda in the 1990s? The Rwandan Genocide was a 100-day long mass murder of the Tutsi people committed by the Hutu people in Rwanda, from 7 April to 15 July 1994. Several actions by the colonial, then the Hutu-led government served as the impetus to the escalation of ethnic tension. The colonial rulers (Germany until 1919, Belgium thereafter) favoured the Tutsi over the Hutu, and gave Tutsi people additional benefits like education and positions of…

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    Mount Elgon Diffusion

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    could have spread more viruses through the environment causing people encountering it spread it even further. 10) An airborne strain could circle the world in a couple of days. 11) Marburg has a 24% death rate, Ebola sudan has a 50% rate, and Ebola Zaire has a 90% death rate. 12) Because they probably couldn’t afford more. 13) The burial practices of central Africa contributed to the spread of Ebola viruses, because they did physical contact with the bodies. 14) Gene Johnson didn’t find…

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    volunteers would build homes with no interest loans subsequently receiving funds from mortgage payments to build additional homes) (Habitat for Humanity International, 2017). The idea worked quite well and in 1973 the Fuller’s took the idea overseas to Zaire (three years later after launching a successful house building program there they came home and founded HFHI in 1976) (Habitat for Humanity International, 2017). Those of us who are old enough to remember President Jimmy Carter will also…

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    Iboga Tabernanthe Iboga: an unassuming shrub found in western Central African that bears white flowers and yellow fruit. Ingest a small amount and you'd get a pleasant stimulating aphrodisiac effect, ingest significantly more, and you'd be sent on a visionary trip described as more intense than any other psychedelic known to man. The Bwiti cult in Africa has been using Iboga as the central practice of their religion for hundreds and thousands of years. Ibogaine is the tryptamine…

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    The very first case of Ebola was named Zaire ebolavirus because of the country it came from called Zaire, now known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo(Outbreaks Chronology: Ebola Virus Disease). It was previously known as the Ebola hemorrhagic fever. There are five different species of the Ebola, Ebola Virus, Sudan virus…

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    Although the crisis is young, the roots of the issue can be traced back to the early 1960s. The Democratic Republic of the Congo was formerly known as Zaire, when it was under the rule of President Mobutu Seko who came into power shortly after the D.R.C gained independence in 1960. Seko is credited with the beginnings of “rape culture” in the D.R.C, as he promoted sexual abuse as a method of torture. Seko…

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    In Richard Preston’s The Hot Zone, the plot follows path of Ebola as it makes its way into the human race for the first time. From the beginning, with a man called Charles Monet, for our purposes, in 1980, to a young Danish boy in ‘87, to an outbreak in Reston, Virginia in 1989, Ebola virus has evaded understanding. But Preston traces its lifespan with a fine-tooth comb, carefully documenting every known occasion in which the scientific community learned more about the elusive virus. With a…

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