Sierra Leone Research Paper

In late 2013, Ebola virus disease (EVD), a deadly and lethal disease, remerged in West Africa spreading to various countries in the region. In humans, the disease is spread through contact with infected bodily fluids leading to haemorrhagic fever (World Health Organization [WHO], 2015). Originating in 1976 in equatorial Africa, past outbreaks with a few hundred cases had been contained within rural, forested areas in Uganda and Congo (Piot, 2012). In 2014, a total of 20, 206 cases and 7,905 deaths were reported to have occurred in up to eight countries worldwide. Of all cases and deaths resulting from the disease, 99.8% occurred in three neighbouring West African countries - Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea (WHO, 2014). With a case fatality rate from about 50% to 90%, and the absence of preventative or curative therapies, the Ebola epidemic has led to overall global alarm and further elucidated existing global health disparities that perpetuated the epidemic with these West African countries.

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Sierra Leone is mainly a mining country, this caused it to be colonized and for their own native people being used as slaves in their mines. This shaped its social development by making it a far higher concentration of natives than other countries. But, because of their enslavement and American control until recently, literacy rates and per capita GDP are disturbingly low. Politically, though, it’s more stable than most countries in this case.

Sierra Leone endured a three-day lockdown. The lockdown forced the people to stay in their homes, and permitted them from moving about the country. During this time, Houses were searched and 130 new cases of Ebola were found. The Ebola virus can have a mortality rate up to 90%, which is greatly affecting Sierra Leones population of 6.1 million people.

Addressing the most important factor – lack of literacy – it can be noted that the education expenditures in Sierra Leone is 2.9% of GDP (2012)1. An increase in investment in the education system, and enforcement is the most effective way to increase literacy rates. In an interview with the International Monetary Fund, the question is posed: “Oil wealth is not always a blessing. In actual fact, countries like Nigeria have struggled in managing the resource effectively. How can the CEMAC countries avoid the pitfalls that other countries have fallen into? ” The simple answer given by Sharmini Coorey, Director of the IMF's Institute for Capacity Development replies; “Another important thing is investing in people. In the book, we focus on how to achieve inclusive growth and one of the most obvious and relatively easy ways of making inclusive growth is to spend your oil money on better health and education.17” In investing in the people, a country is investing in their future. Censorship isn’t generally accepted in Sierra Leone and so with the creation of privately owned newspaper, radio, and television companies, it allows the private owners to give people the unbiased, truthful and accurate news16. In the research done, my conclusion is that Sierra Leone has a good basis for media, however it is the literacy and monetary issues which hold

Government officials in Africa argue the inefficient response during the critical threshold and the amount of money spent on establishing an American health care system parallels the imperialism movement and has left the countries vulnerable to future outbreaks, indebted and currently still unprepared. The monetary “loans”, less than half of which actually reached affected countries last year failed to educate the public (Duval). This raises the question of owing money that was not distributed to tackle immediate threats but attempted to repair years of corruption and unstable health care

On the hand, even to this day it is experiencing some major health issues, some they have found a way to eradicate or drastically decrease the amount of of people infected with these disease while others have been a lot more challenging. Ebola was a virus that the government of Sierra Leone made their goal to have zero of its people infected with at a certain point in time and the accomplished it. HIV/AIDS is a virus that affects thousands of men, women and children in Sierra Leone. On a good note, studies do show that there is a decrease in the number of new cases of infection. Malaria is one of those diseases that the Sierra Leonean people think they’ll never get rid of. It affects everyone of all races and ages. These illnesses and epidemics may weaken the economy and government of the country but the government is not giving up. As long as the country continues to put effort toward growth, it should continue to see

The country's development is limited and is generally restricted to the capital city. The recent outbreak of the disease Ebola clearly demonstrated the lack of health and resources. Ebola, though contagious, can be easily contained by the sufficient sanitation and health resources. There were 13 250 cases of Ebola reported with 3 949 deaths. In Sierra Leone, there is no proper hospital outside the capital city and 136 doctors for the entire population. The low level of development in Sierra Leone was only worsened by the Ebola outbreak and restricted any improvements that the country may have made after the civil war.

The political and economical issues spread beyond the government and to the community in Zimbabwe. For 15 years prior, the economy is Zimbabwe had been slowly fading but after the recent election the unemployment rate rose to eighty percent (“Govt” 1, 2). The number for jobless people increased to a massive number of nearly 200,000 making the eleventh year high up to 3.33 million (“Bankruptcies” 1, 2). This made it extremely challenging for families to afford things like education, health care, and even housing. As a result, this forced people to turn to crime and corruption just to try and make a living. While the citizens were turning to crime, the government was wasting all it’s money for personal needs. It was also discovered that the government had been paying more than 40,000 to what was referred to as “ghost workers” appearing on their payroll (“Govt” 1, 2). As a result of this, Zimbabwe was part of a huge fraud situation with the Nigerian Deposit Insurance. They were accounted for seventy-four cents for all fraud counts (“Our” 1). Soon after this scandal, Zimbabwe had no choice but to declare bankruptcy making the country record, 1082 bankruptcies as of 2008 (“Bankruptcies” 1, 2). After the fraud situation the government tried to cover up by creating an Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC). The government was interested in fixing

Iceland and Gabon are very unique countries with different statuses. Iceland has a very small population but is highly developed and a model of efficiency socially, politically, and economically. Whereas Gabon has the potential to be one of most developed African countries, with their discovery of oil and the associated profit, but the population trends of the transitional period of development and the social and political endeavours attached to such a change have hindered the countries progression. As a result of this, Iceland has a better economy, quality of life, and social and political structure while Gabon is developing these benefits slowly but with success with signs of development problems in population and infrastructure that

Cameroon, a relatively economically stable country in central Africa, has often been often discounted when searching to invest in Africa. Despite the rich opportunity for manufacturing and new markets, Cameroon lacks infrastructure and is often overlooked in favor of its neighbor Nigeria. Cameroon exists as a promising enterprise for foreign investment with a bit of time and assistance. Cameroon sits on the border of Nigeria, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Gabon, and Guinea while still having access to the Gulf of Guinea. According to the CIA’s World Factbook, Cameroon’ terrain is very diverse which is favorable for agriculture, and has some volcanic activity. The CIA also states that Cameroon has a large variety of ethnic groups; the largest being Cameroon Highlands, followed by Bantu, Kirdi, Fulani, Nigritic and others. This ethnic diversity

money speak the truth and their mind in Sierra Leone. Because the poor smart people can’t stand

Dominated by agriculture grown for export markets since colonial times, the economy of this West African nation is beginning to diversify (Michael Radu). According to statistics provided by the International Monetary Fund, in 2006 revenues from oil and refined products surpassed earnings from the nation’s biggest cash crop, cocoa (African Studies Center). The government in 2011, predicted that the nation’s biggest source of wealth would be petroleum resources. Currently more than 30 international mining companies are mining and exploring reserves of gold. Political stability will determine is multinational energy and mining companies can assist with bringing gold, natural gas, diamonds, nickel, oil, and other natural resources. Foreign investments have slowed down due to political instability, which contributed to the country’s initial financial success. Economic growth has come to a standstill. Although the GDP growth rate improved from about 2% in 2008 to 4% in 2009–2011, per capita income has continuously dropped since 1999, with a slight improvement in 2009–2010 (Central Intelligence

The article “Ebola Ravages Economies in West Africa” from The New York Times explores the impact of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) on West Africa, namely Sierra Leone’s, economy. Interestingly author of the article Jeffrey Gettleman, opens his commentary in a fashion similar to that of a romance novel. He sets the stage on a sultry night at a beachside bar with three women chatting as the waves crash in the background. As it turns out these three women, Susan, Zenab, and Tina, are all prostitutes and the topic of their conversation is the scarcity of Johns and Sierra Leone’s new motto: ABC- avoid body contact which is hard to do in their line of work since “it’s hard to have sex if you don’t touch.”

Building a nation… Slavery, Independence, Constitution, Military coups to Presidential elections! Senior Enlisted leaders, it is important to know that the freedoms we all prefer comes with a cost of sacrifice, bloodshed, and for some, nation before self for democracy. This essay will discuss the background, government, strategic importance, and future direction of Sierra Leone.