During studying Africa, I felt that Africa is very poor country. If I have a time, I want to go there and I want to involve volunteer programs and want to share something such as foods.
Below are a list of charities who work in Congo and deal with survivals sexual violence. Any contributions to these charities would be greatly appreciated.
Care international
Donate: www.careinternational.org.uk/donate
Christian relief network
Medicines Sans Frontiers
Web: www.msf.org/unitedkingdom/
Merlin 2008
Web: www.merlin.org.uk
Oxfam
The panzi hospital
Website: www.panzihospitalbukavu.org
Save the children
Web: www.savethechildren.org.uk
Unicef
http://www.supportunicef.org/site/c.dvKUI9OWInJ6H/b.7677883/k.2C8F/Donate_now.htm
World share
Web site: www.worldshare.org.uk/
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today/reports/international/congo_donate.shtml
Sunday, November 6, 2011
10. Wildlife of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
The country's rain -forest contain great biodiversity, including many national rare and endemic species, such as both species of chimpanzee: the common chimpanzee and the bonobo, mountain tigers, Okapi and White rhino.
Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildlife_of_the_Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo#Birds
There are many traditional wildlife in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, but I introduced Bonobo and peafowl.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo is the only country in the world in which Bonobos (Pygmy Chimpanzees) are found in the world. The Bonobos previously called the Pgymy Chimpanzee and less often, the dwarf of gracile chimpanzee, is a great ape and one of the two species making up the genus pan.
Source;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonobo
Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildlife_of_the_Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo#Birds
There are many traditional wildlife in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, but I introduced Bonobo and peafowl.
Bonobo
The Democratic Republic of the Congo is the only country in the world in which Bonobos (Pygmy Chimpanzees) are found in the world. The Bonobos previously called the Pgymy Chimpanzee and less often, the dwarf of gracile chimpanzee, is a great ape and one of the two species making up the genus pan.
Source;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonobo
Peafowl
The Congo peafowl is a species of peafowl. The male is a large bird of up the 70 cm (28 in) in length. Its features are deep blue with metallic green and violate tinge. It has bare red neck skin, grey feet, and a black tail with fourteen features.The female is generally a chestnut brown bird with a black abdomen, metallic green back ,and a short chestnut bro chest.
9. Environmental problems
At the heart of central Africa's great rainforests lies Kisangani, a small city in the Democratic Republic of Congo( D R C) some 1,300 miles from the mouth of the Congo River. The town began as a Belgian trading post, Stanleyville, and was Conrad's model for Kurtz's inner station in Heart of Darkness. No roads connect Kisangani to the rest of the world; over the past two decades they have all collapsed and been retaken by the jungle. Even river navigation is blocked beyond here, as a massive course of falls stretches for sixty miles years. upstream.
At the global level, Congo's forests act as the plant's second lung, counterpart to the rapping carbon that could otherwise become carbon dioxide, the main cause of global warming .
If these woodlands are deforested, the carbon they trap will be released in the atmosphere. Environmentalists say that if deforestation continues unabated, by 2050 the D R C could release as much carbon dioxide as Britain has in the past sixty. On the ground, this would likely mean desertification, mass migration, hunger, banditry and war.
For example, this company came here just to cut trees, and from the beginning it has been nothing but lies, lies, lies, say the chief, Frederic Makofi, as several men gathered around nod their approval, Chief Makofi wants clinics and schools and buildings materials and transportation.
So the D R C needs sustainable forest industries, scientific management of the resource and subsidies from industrialized economies to preserve the forest for the sake of climate stability.
Source: Global Studies Africa
At the global level, Congo's forests act as the plant's second lung, counterpart to the rapping carbon that could otherwise become carbon dioxide, the main cause of global warming .
If these woodlands are deforested, the carbon they trap will be released in the atmosphere. Environmentalists say that if deforestation continues unabated, by 2050 the D R C could release as much carbon dioxide as Britain has in the past sixty. On the ground, this would likely mean desertification, mass migration, hunger, banditry and war.
For example, this company came here just to cut trees, and from the beginning it has been nothing but lies, lies, lies, say the chief, Frederic Makofi, as several men gathered around nod their approval, Chief Makofi wants clinics and schools and buildings materials and transportation.
So the D R C needs sustainable forest industries, scientific management of the resource and subsidies from industrialized economies to preserve the forest for the sake of climate stability.
Source: Global Studies Africa
8. Regions
| Western DRC (Kinshasa) home to the capital Kinshasa and the nation's only port. Moslty tropical forests and grazing lands. |
| Katanga mostly fertile plateaus for agriculture & ranching, home to much of the country's recoverable minerals; de facto independent from 1960-1966 during the "Katanga Crisis" |
| Kasai significant diamond mining, not much else. |
| Kivu (Bukavu, Goma, Kahuzi-Biega National Park,Virunga National Park,) influenced by neighboring Burundi, Rwanda, & Uganda this region is known for its volcanoes, mountain gorillas, and, tragically, its unfathomable conflicts . |
| Congo Basin (Garamba National Park, Maiko National Park, Okapi Wildlife Reserve, Salonga National Park) the DRC's portion and the majority of the world's second largest jungle after the Amazon. |
Friday, October 7, 2011
7. Population, Urbanization, and AIDS
The twentieth century was the setting for the most explosive growth of human population.
Population
1. Total :68,692,542
2. Annual Growth Rate: 3.208%
3. Rural/urban population ration:68/32
4. Ethnic make up :Bantu majority; more than 200 African groups
Source: Global Studies Africa
Urbanization
urban population is 35% total population (2010)
Rate of urbanization:4.5% annual rate of change (2010-15est)
Source:CIA World Facebook
AIDS
The Democratic Republic of the Congo was tone of the first sub-Sahara African country to recognize HIV/AIDS. When its first cases were registered in 1983. Presently, the country has a generalized epidemic,through data form surveillance studies show cases are concentrated among most -at- risk populations in numerous hot spots across the country. The joint United Nations program in HIV/AIDS estimated there were between 400.000 and 500.000 people living with HIV/AIDS and 1.3 percent prevalence among adults at the end of 2007.
Source: http://www.usaid.gov/our_work/global_health/aids/Countries/africa/congo.html
Population
1. Total :68,692,542
2. Annual Growth Rate: 3.208%
3. Rural/urban population ration:68/32
4. Ethnic make up :Bantu majority; more than 200 African groups
Source: Global Studies Africa
Urbanization
urban population is 35% total population (2010)
Rate of urbanization:4.5% annual rate of change (2010-15est)
Source:CIA World Facebook
AIDS
The Democratic Republic of the Congo was tone of the first sub-Sahara African country to recognize HIV/AIDS. When its first cases were registered in 1983. Presently, the country has a generalized epidemic,through data form surveillance studies show cases are concentrated among most -at- risk populations in numerous hot spots across the country. The joint United Nations program in HIV/AIDS estimated there were between 400.000 and 500.000 people living with HIV/AIDS and 1.3 percent prevalence among adults at the end of 2007.
Source: http://www.usaid.gov/our_work/global_health/aids/Countries/africa/congo.html
6.International Relations
Several watershed events have influenced the evolution of African international relations since the late nineteenth century.In the aftermath of the Berlin conference of 1884-1885, independence Africa( except for Ethiopia and Liberia). Ceased to exist ,and African international relationship were controlled by the European colonial powers.
Democratic Republic of the Congo, for example,Mobutu Sese Seko assumed power in 1965 through a military coup d'etat supported by the U.S.government and gradually concentrated all power around the office of the present. Often unwilling to listen to his foreign policy experts within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and having effectively silenced other potential centers of opposition,most notable by disbanding the Zairian National Assembly,Mobutu made a speech before the UN General Assembly in which he announced his decision to rupture all diplomatic ties with Israel. This decision was notable in that it was made without any warning to the Nixon White House and effectively derailed state Department efforts to win congressional passage of a Zairian foreign aid bill
Source: Understanding Contemporary Africa
The Democratic Republic of the Congo is also a member of the international criminal Court with a Bilateral immunity agreement of protection for U.S.-military. Thus, The Democratic Republic of the Congo has a relationship in the U.S.
Democratic Republic of the Congo, for example,Mobutu Sese Seko assumed power in 1965 through a military coup d'etat supported by the U.S.government and gradually concentrated all power around the office of the present. Often unwilling to listen to his foreign policy experts within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and having effectively silenced other potential centers of opposition,most notable by disbanding the Zairian National Assembly,Mobutu made a speech before the UN General Assembly in which he announced his decision to rupture all diplomatic ties with Israel. This decision was notable in that it was made without any warning to the Nixon White House and effectively derailed state Department efforts to win congressional passage of a Zairian foreign aid bill
Source: Understanding Contemporary Africa
The Democratic Republic of the Congo is also a member of the international criminal Court with a Bilateral immunity agreement of protection for U.S.-military. Thus, The Democratic Republic of the Congo has a relationship in the U.S.
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
5.Economic
The Democratic Republican of the Congo has potential one of the country as compared to other Africa countries. Although Democratic Republic of the Congo has a lower GDP, but there are extraordinary agricultural and mineral resources. But still , the IMF and world Bank Executive help the Democratic republican of the Congo.
1. Currency ( $U.S.equivalent):560 CDF =$1.
2. Per Capita income /GDP:#300/$20.64 billion
3. GDP Growth Rate:5.9%
4. Labor Force by occupation:65% agriculture:19% services:16 % industry.
5. Natural resources: cobalt; copper;cadmium;petroleum;zinc;diamonds; manganese;tin;gold;silver;bauxite;iron ore;coal;hydro power; timber; others.
6. Agriculture: coffee;palm oil;rubber;tea;manioc;root crops; corn;fruits;sugarcane;wood products.
7.In consumer products;cement;industry: mineral mining and processing;diamonds.
8.Exports:.$6.1 billion ( primary partners Belgium, United States, South Africa).
9. Imports: %5.6 billion (primary partners South Africa, Benelux, Nigeria).
Source: Global Studies Africa.
Foreign direct investment; Net Inflows ( % of GDP)
The Democratic Republic of the Congo, previously known as Zaire and once the second most industrialized country in Africa,is now one of the world's poorest nations. years of conflicts, corruption and government mismanagement have left the country in a very bad shape hampering any foreign investments. In fact, despite its vast mineral resources (cobalt, copper, diamonds, coltan), large forest and river system, two thirds of Congo's population live in extreme poverty.
1. Currency ( $U.S.equivalent):560 CDF =$1.
2. Per Capita income /GDP:#300/$20.64 billion
3. GDP Growth Rate:5.9%
4. Labor Force by occupation:65% agriculture:19% services:16 % industry.
5. Natural resources: cobalt; copper;cadmium;petroleum;zinc;diamonds; manganese;tin;gold;silver;bauxite;iron ore;coal;hydro power; timber; others.
6. Agriculture: coffee;palm oil;rubber;tea;manioc;root crops; corn;fruits;sugarcane;wood products.
7.In consumer products;cement;industry: mineral mining and processing;diamonds.
8.Exports:.$6.1 billion ( primary partners Belgium, United States, South Africa).
9. Imports: %5.6 billion (primary partners South Africa, Benelux, Nigeria).
Source: Global Studies Africa.
Foreign direct investment; Net Inflows ( % of GDP)
The Democratic Republic of the Congo, previously known as Zaire and once the second most industrialized country in Africa,is now one of the world's poorest nations. years of conflicts, corruption and government mismanagement have left the country in a very bad shape hampering any foreign investments. In fact, despite its vast mineral resources (cobalt, copper, diamonds, coltan), large forest and river system, two thirds of Congo's population live in extreme poverty.
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