Burkina Faso

Comparative Health Systems We have covered a total of 21 national health systems and have learned some unique systems on each of them. We have learned some fascinating things for example, Japan having the highest life expectancy than any other country at birth, or France being nominated the number health care system in 2000 by the World Health Organisation, or Has a universal system that is facing challenges from aging population and an increase in prevalence for behavior based conditions, but my

The French general Napoleon Bonaparte said once that “History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.” Whether this is for better or worse, what can be agreed is that this has been done by many groups of people. These groups are forced to redefine their history against historical progress, especially nations, as this poses a threat to the survival of a nation and the unity of its people. Historical progress, an inevitable phenomenon that occurs as people move forward

My story is very similar to many immigrants. Tsevie a small city in Togo is where I was born. Togo, my native country is a small country in West Africa bordered by Ghana to the west, Benin to the east, and Burkina Faso to the north.  At the  age of ten my family felt the need to relocate to America for safety reasons. My father whose life was threatened felt that Togo was not the right place for us to live. Besides that like many African countries, life in Togo is restricting. Although my parents

Moreover, the region of the Sahel, like anywhere else on the African continent, had territorial borders penciled in with only the welfares of the colonizing countries in mind and not according to the national unity of the peoples concerned. In the meantime during the early 1960s, these frontiers have been the foundation for international recognition of sovereign states in the region. To avoid weakening these newly formed states, the African Union (AU), and “the Organization of African Unity (OAU)

grasslands, savannas, steppes, and thorn shrub lands lying between the wooded Sudanian savanna to the south and the Sahara to the north. Some of the countries that it the Sahel captures are northern Senegal, southern Mauritania, central Mali, northern Burkina Faso, extreme south of Algeria, Niger, extreme north of Nigeria, central Chad, central and southern Sudan, and northern Eritrea. The climate is typically hot, sunny, dry and somewhat windy all year long. The Sahel 's climate is mainly affected

DRIVERS OF STABILITY IN MALI Percy L. Jones II MCCC 04-15 July 30, 2015 Drivers of Stability in Mali The West African country of Mali has from time to time been mired in un-ending overlapping humanitarian, political, economic, and security crises. Notably, the situation in the country became worse when the government was destabilized and later overthrown in a 2012 military coup. Following the coup, insurgents were quick to capitalize on the resulting power vacuum and seize a greater

Part 1: Country Background The République de Côte d'Ivoire, also known as the Ivory Coast, is a country in West Africa bordering Liberia and Guinea to the west, Mali and Burkina Faso to the north, Ghana to the east, and the Gulf of Guinea to the south. The location now known as the Ivory Coast was made a protectorate of France during the era of imperialism by a treaty in the 1840's, and became a French colony in 1893. The country gained its independence in 1960, at which point it was led by

Health was now becoming a problem as dirty air can cause heart disease, stroke, and cancer and was third highest level of deaths per capita from indoor air pollution of any region of the world said Galbraith. Ms.Linden, until 2007 did research on Burkina Faso, said that one of the major outdoor sources of air pollution was Industrial Activities when the population in Ouagadougou swell by 50%. In this Article things such as the machine to calculate air pollution malfunctioned while on trial in an african

Côte d’Ivoire is a nation on the Gulf of Guinea in South West Africa. The country is a former French colony Côte d’Ivoire is better known as the Ivory Coast. This name comes from the valuable elephant tusks that are poached in the region. Initially united and economically profitable after independence in 1960, the nation has since been divided by civil war and political violence (Ruth Hendry). The country has over 60 indigenous ethnic groups each, with their own traditions. Each of them has distinct

Who are the Mossi? The Mossi are a diverse people whose population are greatest in ,what they consider their homeland, the central part of Burkina Faso and they also live in Cote D’Ivoire and Ghana. The Mossi is the largest ethnic group in Burkina Faso, making up forty percent of the population totaling over 6 million people. The Mossi are the second largest ethnic group in D’Ivoire totaling over 1.2 million people. A smaller population of about 160,000 Mossi live in Ghana (Mossi). The history of