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    Abraham Kaba Aka Blamah

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    the tragedy is what I do not recall because I was between the age of 7 and 8 years old at the time. I was born in Africa, Liberia. It was between 2002 and 2005 when everything started taking place. One day we heard that war was coming to Liberia and noticed people were packing and running away. My mother often tells me that my father was the president of the refugees in Liberia. I was around seven to eight years old, and I overheard my father and my mother speaking. My father told her to take $1000

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    They also have a rainforest called Gola, it goes through Sierra Leone into Liberia. The civil war has made the country dangerous for outsiders but the country is trying to make themselves more modern and tourist friendly with nice restaurants, hotels, and other entertainment facilities. The capitol of Sierra Leone is Freetown, the

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    The Ebola spread from Guinea to Liberia and Sierra Leone after the announcement from both HealthMap and WHO highlighted the lack of tools, infrastructure and resources available in West Africa, charity organisations and other health and government agencies began researching information on Ebola and the current medical products and technologies available and proceeded to plan financial requirements to consider the purchasing of essential resources and the possibility of patient payment methods (Shoman

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    2. Slavery impacted Africa socially, economically, and politically for over 300 years. Slavery had a major social impact on Africa, due to the fact that the vast numbers involved in the trans-Atlantic slave trade led to a color association. Africa already had an existing slave trade system in place. Women were incredibly degraded and devalued for the reason that numerous of were captured and sold into slavery. Polygamy became the norm because many African societies lacked African males because they

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    DDR In Liberia

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    The DDR program in Liberia was not perfect, however. Woman who had suffered gender based violence during the civil war did not receive assistance under the origin DDR programs. The programs were mainly for child militants, and girls over eighteen who were victimized were excluded from participation. An indisputable atrocity for those woman who did fall victim. Reports in recent years show that Liberian woman have been receiving increasingly better assistance through supportive organizations that

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    Sierra Leone or the Republic of Sierra Leone is West African country that borders to the north and east with Guinea, to the southeast with Liberia, and to the west and southwest with Atlantic Ocean. It is a beautiful country with white sand beaches, orange and coconut trees all around, and people of good hearts; however Sierra Leone or Sa Lone in its native language, Krio, has been underdeveloped and was struggling for many years to gain its independence as a British Colony. Even thou, now Sierra

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    Along Way Gone Analysis

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    in it. The corrupt leaders as seen before in history like Stevens, and Mohob. In the book “Along Way Gone” by Ishmael Beah he experiences the messed up politics. He had first heard about it in the news about neighboring wars. Those wars were in Liberia. He had first hand experience, as he had fought for the government side which is no better than the rebels known as RUF. Ishmael roughly experiences this as he says

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    cases and deaths in this outbreak than all others combined, it has also spread in countries like Guinea, then spreading to Land borders in Sierra Leon and Liberia. By air 1 traveler to Nigeria and 1 traveler to USA, and by land to Senegal was 1 traveler, and 2 travelers to Mali who caught Ebola. These affected counties Guinea, Sierra Leon and Liberia have very weak Health Systems, Lack human and infrastructural resources, and have only recently emerged from long periods of conflicts and instability

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    The Ebola Virus Disease

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    spread between countries starting in Guinea then spreading across land borders to Sierra Leone, Liberia, and to Senegal (1 traveler) and Mali (2 travelers) (WHO, 2016). In addition to the spread by land, the disease spread by air to Nigeria (1 traveler) and USA (1 traveler) (WHO, 2016). The consequences were devastating; Liberia, Sierra-Leone and Guinea were the three worse affected countries, with Liberia having the highest at over 4,000

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    wiping out the T-lymphocyte cells that are crucial to its proper function. Ebola attacks the same cells as the AIDS virus attacks but Ebola is way more aggressive. Ebola also has a big effect on people without the disease too. The president of liberia stated that anybody hiding someone with Ebola in their home would be prosecuted. Also when someone found out they were on a plane with someone with Ebola the second they had a cough or sneeze they went to the doctor saying they had Ebola.When there

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