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Royale Exclusive Gw16 African Memorabilia 2009 to 2019
- technbizznamibia
- Dec 7, 2019
- 10 min read
The Good The Bad & The Ugly
Africa 10 years of Full blown Internet on the Continent
The illegal trade in rhino horn is complex, but we know that Vietnam is a key country for horn trafficking and consumption.To understand more and raise awareness of rhino conservation efforts, we went to Vietnam with @paulblackthorne, @jacobdudman and @env.wildlife in 2016.You’ll hear that Dr Hung, a leading traditional medicine practitioner, shares his views on rhino horn and explains why it is used today, though he would never prescribe it. Swipe for part 2.#rhinohorn #illegaltrade #savetherhino #vietnam #endwildlifecrime #cites #rhino #conservation #wildlife
§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§Check out FACE Africa (@faceafrica): https://twitter.com/faceafrica?s=08Do you think you can survive in Rivercess, Liberia? . We asked The Best Damn Host Committee and supporters for the #WASHGala this question in the Pour Me Water Challenge. Take a look… . To help support our efforts to solve the water crisis in Rivercess please visit this link: bit.ly/TextWATER
http://www.faceafrica.org/#support-our-workOUR STORY IT STARTS WITH WATER In 2003, Liberia emerged from a long and devastating civil war that took the lives of hundreds of thousands of people and displaced millions. The country suffered massive destruction and the very fabric of society was torn apart; infrastructures were in ruins – roads, buildings, health clinics, communications networks, schools, farms and factories were almost totally destroyed. With an 80% unemployment rate; extreme poverty with average earnings of $1 a day; no electricity; no running water or sewage system; and an inadequate education system, the country had enormous needs.It was a conflict that forced Saran Kaba Jones and her own family to flee the devastation when she was just 8 years old. In 2008, a then 26 years old Saran, returned to her home country and saw the remnants of war and its attendant ills. She witnessed acute poverty and the debilitating effect it had on the young, elderly, weak and strong. She felt helpless in the face of tragedy and unnecessary deaths, an occurrence that was frustratingly routine all over Liberia. She promised herself that she would work to contribute to the improvement of the human condition of her people. Saran, along with many others including FACE Africa’s Country Manager Emmett G. Wilson, began the difficult process of trying to rebuild their society… one piece at a time.IT BEGAN WITH FUND A CHILD’S EDUCATION (F.A.C.E.) FACE Africa was born from the ashes of this conflict, out of a need to help others reclaim the means to build a better life and prosper. It began with Fund a Child’s Education (FACE) but we quickly realized that one of the major impediments to education was the lack of access to safe drinking water. Children were not showing up to school for extended periods of time, severely hampering their development. We discovered that, in a majority of these cases, a child had contracted one of the many illnesses caused by unsafe water or that the school’s facilities were inadequate to attend to a child’s sanitation needs.Furthermore, the issue of water scarcity prevents many young children, especially girls, from attending school and receiving an education. They are expected to not only aid their mothers in water retrieval, but to also help with the demands of household chores that are made more time-intensive because of a lack of readily available water. A lack of safe water means the absence of sanitary facilities and latrines in schools, and so once puberty hits, this has a more serious impact on female children. In terms of lost educational opportunity, it is estimated that this would result in 272 million more school attendance days per year if adequate investment were made in drinking water and sanitation.[12]UNSAFE WATER INHIBITS ECONOMIC GROWTH Through further research, we began to understand that unsafe water effects more than just education. Health concerns place a disproportionate amount of pressure on a government whose resources are already limited when dealing with such problems. Unsafe water severely inhibits the economic growth of a country because time that could be better used towards producing goods for sale is unavailable due to illness or fetching water from contaminated water sources located miles away. In Africa alone, people spend over 40 billion hours every year, walking for water. Poverty is directly related to the accessibility of clean drinking water- without it, the chances of breaking out of the poverty trap are extremely slim.So, the social and economic consequences of unsafe water penetrate into realms of education, opportunities for gainful employment, physical strength and health, agricultural and industrial development, and thus the overall productive potential of a community, nation, and/or region. Because of this, the UN estimates that Sub-Saharan Africa alone loses 40 billion potential work hours per year collecting water.The UN estimates that Sub-Saharan Africa alone loses 40 billion potential work hours per year collecting water. The UN estimates that Sub-Saharan Africa alone loses 40 billion potential work hours per year collecting water.OUR PEOPLE Team FACE Africa is part of a generation that shares a deep commitment to creating an equitable and sustainable world in which everyone has access to opportunity and basic human needs. Led by our Founder, Saran Kaba Jones and our Country Manager, Emmett Wilson, our mission and work is rooted in community, local ownership and our willingness to go the extra mile.https://m.facebook.com/faceafrica
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The Economy of the war; Morale to the story is to keep it going.
10 years of Boko Haram 2019
#BokoHaram, which means literally no western education, or formerly known as Jamā’at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da’wah wa’l-Jihād, is an ally of #ISIS and active in #Africa including northern part of Nigeria, Niger, Chad, Cameron and Benin.
This group was founded by Muhammad Yusef, a Nigerian wahhabi and supporter of flat Earth theory!, in 2002 under influence of Afghanistan’s Taliban and was an ally of al Qaeda before emergence of ISIS.
Boko Haram’s chief, Abubakar Shekau, stated coalition with ISIS Khalifah in March 2015 and changed the name of the group to the Islamic State in West Africa or the Islamic State’s West Africa Province. After 17 months of coalition between Boko Haram and ISIS, some differences between them caused Habib, son of Muhammad Yusef famous as Abu Mus’ab Al Birnawi, to be assigned as the head of West Africa State by ISIS and heat up the struggles. In despite of domestic confrontations, Boko Haram’s activities in west of Africa specially in north of Nigeria is still significant.
Boko Haram’s crimes including but not limited to massacring hundreds in cities and villages of north of Nigeria (states Borno, Yuba, Kanu, etc.), abducting near 300 female students and selling them as slaves and… and suicide bombings. Video: https://english.iswnews.com/8995/video-boko-haram/
Urbanization results from a natural increase in the population and rural to urban migration. People migrate to towns and cities in the hope of gaining a better standard of living. They are influenced by pull factors that attract them to urban life and push factors that make them dissatisfied with rural living.
Africa is currently the least urbanized continent, but its urbanization rate of 3.5 percent per year is the fastest in the world. In 1980, only 28 percent of Africans lived in urban areas.
Today, the number of Africans living in cities is 40 percent and is projected to grow to 50 percent by 2030. Due to factors such as; poor housing, bad governance, poor house planning, Africa’s urban slum population will double to 400 million by 2020 unless governments take decisive action.
Christian Benimana, a 37 years old Architect from Rwanda talks about his plans to tackle the growth of urban slums in Africa and hopes that there are other African youths that want the same.
follow link for full video : https://bit.ly/2tXiIxL Follow @naijabusinesstv for updates on issues affect the African youths and solutions for these problems #urbanization #Rwanda #slums #architecture #infrastructure #africanurbanization #migration #poverty #badgovernance #livingintheslums
Africa Rapid Urbanization Presents New Problems for Africa By Nicolas Pinault May 20, 2019 03:34 PM FILE – The make-shift shanty Makoko community built on the lagoon shows the extreme poverty and inequality between the rich and the poor in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital, Jan. 23, 2019. FILE – The make-shift shanty Makoko community built on the lagoon shows the extreme poverty and inequality between the rich and the poor in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital, Jan. 23, 2019. Africa has become the world’s most rapidly urbanizing continent.
In sub-Saharan Africa, the urban population has doubled since the mid-1990s, and reached 400 million people in 2016. According to experts, 40 percent of the region’s total population resides in cities, compared to 31 percent in 2000.
During the next 15 years, the United Nations predicts the world’s 10 fastest-growing cities will be in Africa.
However, the development of infrastructure and industries has not kept pace with the growth in urban population.
Sixty percent of city dwellers in sub-Saharan Africa live in slums, and only 25 percent have access to safe drinking water.
FILE – A car passes by a canal full with trash in Dakar, June 2, 2018. FILE – A car passes by a canal full with trash in FILE – A car passes by a canal full with trash in Dakar, June 2, 2018. Poor sewage systems and weak flood control present another challenge.
Kouman Kossia Tamia, a traditional queen from Ivory Coast, fears the floods that come with each rainy season. When the rainy season comes, she said, she cannot do anything because everything is blocked.
Amadou Diarra, mayor of North Pikine, a suburb of Senegal’s capital, Dakar, sees human waste management as a growing problem.
Waste is buried, he said, because there are not plants to deal with it. Instead, there is only one site that receives all the household waste in the Dakar region. The challenge in moving toward sustainability, he said, is to transform waste next to where it is produced, rather than bury it underground.
Most of Africa’s urban growth is in small and mid-sized cities, with slightly more than half of African urban dwellers living in cities with populations of less than 250,000.
Maggie Chazal, founder of the NGO Urbanists Without Borders, said these intermediate cities are important to Africa’s future because they help connect large cities and rural areas. Without them, she added, rural areas have neither equipment nor jobs, which would lead to an intensifying rural exodus by young people. She says large cities only concentrate economic and social problems, such as slums.
But Africa already has many large cities, and those cities are getting larger. Lagos, in Nigeria, is projected to become the largest city in the world, with an estimated population of 88.3 million people by the year 2100, according to the World Economic Forum.
The Arab Spring
Tunisia: Government overthrown on Jan. 14, 2011. President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali flees into exhile. Elections for a Consituent Assembly held on Oct. 23, 2011.
Egypt: Government overthrown on Feb. 11, 2011. President Hosni Mubarak steps down, faces charges of killing unarmed protesters. Elections held on Nov. 28, 2011. Protests continue in Tahrir Square.
Libya: Anti-government protests begin on Feb. 15, 2011, leading to civil war between opposition forces and Moammar Gadhafi loyalists. Tripoli was captured and the government overthrown on Aug. 23. Gadhafi was killed by transition forces on Oct. 20.
Syria: Protests for political reforms have been ongoing since Jan. 26, 2011 with continuing clashes between the Syrian army and protesters. On one day in July, 136 people were killed when Syrian army tanks stormed several cities.
Yemen: Ongoing protests since Feb. 3, 2011. President Ali Abdullah Saleh is injured in an attack on June 4. On Nov. 23, he signs a power-transfer agreement ending his 33-year reign.
Other nations: Protests and uprisings related to the Arab Spring also took place in other countries as well, including: Algeria, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Morocco and Oman.
He says the Arab world is a religiously conservative place and people generally want to see Islam playing an important role in public life.
“They’re a reality on the ground and the people have voted them in,” he says. “America has to learn to live with political Islam.”
Hamid says the U.S. should engage with the Islamist groups to understand them and learn how to work together. The sense in the region, he says, is that the Obama administration has been “on the wrong side of history.” Waiting until the last moments to take action and show support for the aspirations of the people is troubling, he says.
“I think in times of historical ferment like these you need strong, bold [and] decisive leadership,” he says.
In the year since the beginning of the Arab Spring, leaders have been ousted in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya and Yemen. At the start, it would have been hard to imagine how much the movement would spread throughout the region, Hamid says, but it certainly can’t be said that it came out of nowhere.
The revolution had been building up for decades in Egypt, he says.
“I think there was a loss of faith in working within the system, and that’s when people began to think more and more about civil disobedience, mass protests [and] going out in to the streets,” he says. “When your political process fails you, there’s really only one option left.”
A Continuing Battle
If storming the streets is the only plan the activists had, then they were at a disadvantage from day one, says Raghida Dergham, a columnist and senior diplomatic correspondent for Al-Hayat, one of the leading daily pan-Arab newspapers.
Dergham believes the youth activists where hijacked by longer established Islamist groups.
“When the youths went to Tahrir Square and other places they wanted a modernist future,” Dergham says. “Suddenly they were encroached upon by the very well-organized and well-experienced Islamist parties … and they won the day.”
Dergham says people should not prematurely celebrate what is being called “moderate Islam.” As long as there is no separation between religion and the state, she says, there will be a huge price to be paid by much of the population in the Arab region — particularly women.
The bottom line, she says, is that the men in power will have the authority to interpret the laws set in sharia, or Islamic law.
“They have the right, in that case, to say what the laws are,” she says. “If there [were] any guarantees that there will be a civil constitution that would rule any country where Islamists win the day in elections … no problem. But I’m afraid that we do not have any such guarantees.”
In a recent column, Dergham wrote that the “Arab Awakening will end in the Slumber of Dark Ages” if Arab women fail to take the initiative. She says they should stand up to the Islamists now for the rights of women in the new Arab world.
“These women fought with these young men to bring the change,” she says. “They should not be sidelined.”
Watching the Arab Spring during the past year, Dergham says, she often feels like she’s on a seesaw. One moment she is exhilarated and proud of what has taken place and other times she’ll find herself questioning what has been done.
“I am really not clear yet, but I still want to bet on the good day that will be coming after the turbulent times that we are witnessing now,” she says.
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