Business With a gross national income (GNI) per resident of (2017) US $ 46,180, the Netherlands occupies a top position in the ranking of EU countries. In addition to an…
6: Sexualized violence as a weapon Sexualized violence is a form of gender-based violence . Sexualized violence in war involves more than rape ; it can also be about forced…
On October 10, 2008, it was announced that former Finnish President, diplomat and peace mediator Martti Ahtisaari has been awarded this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. Where has Ahtisaari conducted peace…
4: Alone against Ebola In March 2014, MSF ‘s field workers noticed a worrying increase in sickness in parts of Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone. Teams were immediately dispatched to…
In 2014, the world was taken to bed when Ebola managed to spread in parts of West Africa and kill over eleven thousand people. How did Ebola spread? Why was…
The right to education is a universal human right . Education is, in addition to being important in itself, crucial to achieving other development goals. Nevertheless, not everyone has access…
5: Gender equality in legislation Malawi has had a multi-party system since the mid-1990s. The country became independent from Britain in 1964. It was only at that time that the…
3: Oil for trouble The Nigerian oil industry is a boon to Nigeria’s economy, and a curse to millions of people living near the oil fields. According to the Department…
Nigeria’s rich oil deposits have become a curse for the majority of the inhabitants of the Niger Delta, where most of the extraction takes place. Pollution, corruption and persecution of…
The Ogoni and their fight against pollution have long been a stumbling block for the Nigerian authorities. The oil drilling, which in its time was started without the blessing of…
This year’s project country, Rwanda – a country in central-eastern Africa – has about 11 million inhabitants. The country is the size of Hedmark county and is one of the…
4: Young in Rwanda Being young in Rwanda presents challenges. Many lost their parents at a young age, either in the genocide, or as a result of diseases such as…
ECONOMY Despite the relatively large resources, Mozambique, which during Portuguese colonialism was used much more as a stopover along the route to the Indies rather than as a territory where…
Chad is a landlocked state in Central Africa. The country borders Libya to the north, Sudan to the east, Central African Republic to the south, Cameroon and Nigeria to the…
Labor market According to countryvv, earning a regular income as a foreigner in Kenya is otherwise rather difficult. Your financial reserves should be able to withstand a long “dry spell”….
South Africa consists for the most part of flat or undulating plateaus. In the central highlands (Hochveld), these reach a height of 1,200–1,800 m above sea level, in the north-west…
Given the many and powerful natural resources at its disposal, the Democratic Republic of the Congo represents perhaps the example of bad governance, of wrong choices, of the most macroscopic…
HYDROGRAPHY The arrangement of the mountainous reliefs, in the central part of the territory, conditions the radial structure of Moroccan hydrography. Towards the interior various watercourses (Ziz, Guir etc.) descend,…
Benguela Benguela, provincial capital with a fishing port on the Atlantic coast of Angola, (2014) 555 100 residents. Seat of a Catholic bishop. Benguela was an overseas port for a…
Cameroon [on the happening in the Bay of Cameroon crabs, Portuguese camerões], officially French République du Cameroun [repy Republic dy kamə run], English Republic of Cameroon [r ɪ p ʌ…
In the game reserve, framed by the Dja River, a still pristine rainforest in Central Africa has been preserved, which is unparalleled with its biodiversity, especially the variety of primate…
The protected area in the border area to Chad has three vegetation zones with an area of 17 400 km². It is known for its unique flora and fauna. The…
Chad [also Tscha ː t], republic in Central Africa. The interior is located in the Sahara desert, in the Sahel and in the greater Sudan landscape, inhabited by a large…
Abomey was the capital of the Fon Kingdom of Dahomey, which flourished from the 17th to the 19th centuries. The two remaining palace complexes, richly decorated with mythological motifs and…
The trading town of Djenné is located on an island in the Niger inland delta. According to itypeusa, your inner city is built in traditional clay construction and is reminiscent…
The world heritage includes the largest protected area of the tropical rainforest in Central Africa. According to indexdotcom, the national park is located in the center of the Congo Basin…
Cultural landscape of the Konso (World Heritage) The cultural landscape is a testimony to the more than 500-year history of the Konso, who created a landscape on the edge of…
Before colonization When Ghana gained independence in 1957, it was named after an ancient African empire that existed from the 9th to the 12th centuries. However, that was far north…
Early history Various peoples lived in the area of today’s Guinea even before our era. Around 900 peoples of the Mande languages came to Guinea from the northeast. The Susu…
Prehistory and West African Empires The present area of the country Guinea-Bissau was settled by humans in the Stone Age. They lived as hunters and gatherers before they became sedentary…