African Issues Powerpoint

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African Issues Powerpoint

• Team 4 Geography
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vPvC64lWeu-s

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Modern Obstacles

• AIDS in Africa
• Child Soldiers
• Conflict Diamonds (Blood Diamonds)
• Genocide

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AIDS in Africa

• Sub-Saharan Africa is more heavily affected by
  HIV and AIDS than any other region of the world.
  An estimated 22.5 million people were living with
  HIV at the end of 2007 and approximately 1.7
  million additional people were infected with HIV
  during that year.

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Areas of Highest Concentration

• Southern Africa
• South Africa
• Botswana
• Zimbabwe
• Zambia
• Namibia

http//www.aidsinafrica.net/map.php
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Why is it so bad?

• Education
• Poverty / Contraception
• Health Care
• Infrastructure (Roads, Electricity, etc.)
• Cost of Anti-Retroviral Drugs / Treatments
• 100 Fatal

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Possible Solutions ??? Or not???

• Foreign Aid to Countries
• Education Centers
• Improved Infrastructure

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Child Soldiers
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Child Soldiers

• The military use of children takes three distinct
  forms children can take direct part in
  hostilities (child soldiers), or they can be used
  in support roles such as porters, spies,
  messengers, look outs, and sexual slaves or they
  can be used for political advantage either as
  human shields or in propaganda.

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Child Soldiers

• Child Soldiers are often subjected to extensive
  drug and psychological abuse. This
  brainwashing ultimately reduces them to
  intellectual slaves to their commanders. They do
  not feel like they have the freedom to leave.

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Child Soldiers

• Most children that are used in armed conflict are
  often scarred for life, emotionally and
  physically. Often they develop difficulty
  dealing with others and have little understanding
  of proper social interactions.

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Conflict Diamonds
http//www.youtube.com/watch?vmOIUn0We12A
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The History

• Armed conflicts are expensive. In order to
  finance revolutions, civil wars and sometimes
  local greed the use of slave labor has been used
  to accessed the rich natural resources of many
  African nations.

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Conflict Diamonds

• Western Africa
• Liberia
• Cote DIvoire
• Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Republic of the Congo

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Conflict Diamonds

• Forced labor is often used in mining.

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Conflict Diamonds and Child Soldiers

• There is a distinct tie between Conflict Diamonds
  and Child Soldiers. As the diamonds provide for
  the economic resources needed by revolution and
  civil war the children provide the human capital
  required.

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The brighter side.

• The continent of Africa is a rich and beautiful
  place. Make sure that you remember that although
  it has a number of issues and problems it is also
  the home to many wonderful things.