This week in Sub-Saharan Africa, my article was on South Africa’s economic growth. This article states that Africa’s’ economy will take even longer to recover due to some of their countries issues, the lack of investors, and the lack of technology. The World Bank is predicting that Sub-Saharan Africa’s growth rate will decline from growing at 3.3% to 2.8%. A… Read more »
This article discusses how Senegal’s Macky Sall has just started his second term as Senegal’s President. Macky Sall used optimism as a tool in his inauguration speech, saying that economically Senegal is on the come up. A main talking point in his speech was Senegal’s plan to enter the hydrocarbons sector in 2021-22 because of their two new oil and… Read more »
Recently, there has been news of Ebola outbreaks in the town of Bikoro in Northwestern Democratic Republic of Congo. This current outbreak began back in August, 2018, and over 1000 people have been infected making it the second largest outbreak of the virus ever recorded. Over 600 people have died from this outbreak, with the number continuing to rise. According… Read more »
An american woman was touring one of Uganda’s most popular safari destinations was kidnapped with her local guide on Tuesday even and held for $500,000 in ransom, the authorities said. The name of the park is Queen Elizabeth National Park, which was the site of the abduction, and Ugandan security forces stated yesterday that they were searching the park for… Read more »
A corrupted government is thought to be one of the worst things in the world, and yet they exist everywhere. They’re based off of tradition and form so easily; the elite rise to power and bring their friends with them. This cycle just continues until enough of the general population stops to say something. Algeria is a prime example. Bouteflika… Read more »
The response to Cyclone Idai on a state level shows the impact of poverty on states’ abilities to prevent death as a result of disasters and create emergency response infrastructure. Cyclone Idai is a recent event that impacted the coastal African country of Mozambique, reaching so far inland with such devastating force that it even managed to impact the neighboring,… Read more »
This week for my region report I looked at articles about Sub Saharan Africa and an article that really interested me was about the number of cases of cholera in Mozambique, a country in south east Africa that borders Zimbabwe and Zambia. Mozambique is a country that touches the water on the east of Africa, making it a very good… Read more »
Policy StatementCommittee: Disarmament and International Security CouncilIssue of: Combating Space Warfare Submitted by: The Kingdom of Spain From the end of the Cold War, the new focus has moved from spaceships to salites. There has not been a war in space so far this year. There have been a number of treaties blocking the use of space warfare and nuclear… Read more »
This week, my article targeted Sub-Saharan Africa, specifically Uganda. Recently, strikes have been causing conflict between the students at the Uganda University and the police in Uganda. Police have been throwing tear gas at student strikers, sending many of them to hospitals. There have also been reports of actual bullets being fired in Uganda to try and stop the strikes…. Read more »
The issue that the North Atlantic Council of KarMUN 2019 is concerned with is the new route of migration that leads through the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the effect it has on the country. The New Balkan route for migration opened because the route previously followed has been closed down by the governments of Hungary, Serbia and Croatia… Read more »