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    Malaka Gharib confirms that, Africa uses less than three percent of the world’s energy, despite having thirteen percent of the world's population. Poverty is a socio- economic issue that has become a major global crisis for many people across the world with limited resources. For the underdevelopment countries like the continent of Africa as well as developed countries like the U.S., the majority of it inhabitants are in deep poverty. In today’s modern era, poor people are facing with multiple social

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    The effects of tourism in Africa Ever since the ability to travel over vast amounts of distances around the world became easier with the use of innovative marvels such as the aeroplane, tourism started to grow in certain countries that had enough places of interest. Africa offered much that cannot be seen anywhere else in the world; from the ancient pyramids of Giza to the spectacular wildlife migration in the Serengeti. Tourist from around the world would pay a lot of money to see and be a part

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    Triangular Trade Today when people consider of Africa,poverty and famine will possibly emerge with that ,the fall behind of Africa can date back to fifteenth century when the new world has been discovered.An international trade instructed by European countries including procedure of trading African people. Finally,too much export of citizens made the development of the country or even the sovereignty hard to maintain till now.This international trade was known as”Triangle Trade”,which literally

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    In How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, all the points made are clear and logical. Of course if Europe and other slave-based economies were exhausting Africa of its population, for those left, infrastructure and control of nature would be more difficult to achieve. Of course if Spain’s gold industry from South America (using slave labor, some African) beat out Africa’s gold industry, Africans would be forced to support themselves in other ways. One of those was hunting each other to provide more slaves

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    In the late 19th century the “scramble” or “grab” for Africa was at its pinnacle of the imperialism standpoint. Several European powers were at the starting gate readying for the luxurious riches at the end of the tunnel. These powers’ only mindset was to receive some sort of monetary gain for the advancement of their countries to the continent of Africa. After reading the book The Scramble for Africa by M.E. Chamberlain she makes an inadvertent point of view to the reader about the real savages

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    Country Information: Northern Africa: Algeria- The citizens are living in poverty, but the nation is wealthy due to their mass amounts of oil. Their economy level is upper middle income rate. Within the country there is about 18,000 people living with HIV or AIDS. Algeria is willing to direct money towards healthcare, but it is riddled with poor infrastructure. Its citizens generally favor Western Medicine. Unfortunately the country faces overpopulation, and is overcrowded in some cities. Egypt-

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    Western Africa are similar and different. These zonal areas share some of the same geography, history, and culture. Today, Northern Africa shares some of the same problems as Western Africa since they are very close together. The regions share a lot of the same things like the Sahara and the mountains. Northern and Western Africa share geography like grasslands and plains, they have river and lakes for water and animals for food. Let’s see what the rest of Africa is like. Physical geography Africa is

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    Main Body Africa is made up of 54 nations and is today the least developed region of the Third World, this despite its immense possessions of for example minerals and natural resources. The majority of Africans, particularly in the Sub-Saharan parts, lack the most basic needs and as a result falls to the bottom of list of growth income per capita (UNDP, 2007). The Sub-Saharan in addition inhabits 13 percent of the earth’s residents and in addition accounts for 25 percent of the malnourished group

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    Ethiopia is a place where it is both joined and unjointed to its continent, Africa. The Ethiopians, flourished on their own for a long time due to their resilience and determination. However, the question is, is Ethiopia isolated from Africa or not? The simple way of saying it would be no, of course not it’s in Africa, but that’s not all correct. Being the first indigenous people to be literate proved that they are more than people who can just fight, they are smart which allows them to be strategic

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    A major challenge and cause of serious medical issues in Sub-Saharan Africa is the lack of access to a clean water supply. There are 345 million people that lack access to water in Africa. Unfortunately, when water is available it is high in contamination. When wells are built and water sanitation facilities are developed, they cannot be maintained properly to due to limited financial resources. Water quality testing is not performed as often as necessary and the people are unaware that the water

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