CASE STUDIES OF AFRICAN NATIONS



PROBLEMS FACING AFRICAN NATIONS TODAY

|Division and Civil War | |

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|Tribalism | |

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|Nationalism | |

| |EX: RWANDA – two tribes Hutus vs. Tutsis, led to a massacre of an estimated 500,00 Tutsi tribe members |

| |EX: SUDAN – Arab Muslims persecuting Christian Africans |

|One-Party Rule | |

|Military Rule | |

|Drought and Famine | |

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| |EX: Somalia – civil war and drought threatened millions of Somalians to starvation – the U.N. forces landed in |

| |Somalia to provide food and medical supplies but were forced to withdraw due to the warlords fighting in the country|

| |– “Black Hawk Down” |

|Desertification | |

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|Deforestation | |

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|AIDS Epidemic | |

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| |The number of people available to work has decreased leading to slow economic growth in the region |

| |The UN Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS tries to halt spread of AIDS through education and vaccine research also|

| |includes a guideline on how countries can pool their efforts to help stop the epidemic |

Question:

Which problem do you feel has the most devastating effect on African nations today? Explain your answer.

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