today we are continued on with our assigned blogs again
Somalia
-Somalia civil war 1991
-Siad Barre kicked out
-Al Shabab
-Pirates
-New priesident elected
-spt 2012
- Hussan Sheikh Mahamud
DRC
-ind. from Belgium 1960
-known as Zaire from 1971-97
-its been DRC from 97
-president Mabuto Seko
-US supported -anti-communist
-human rights violations corruption
-1st Congo War-1996-97
-ethnic tentions
-Rwardan -Hutus
-fleeing to DRC
-2nd Congo War- 1998-2003
-deadliest war in Af history
-5.4 mill died
-millions displaced
-2003
-transitional Gov.
-pres. Joseph Kabila
1.) unify country
2.) disarm
3.) hold elections
South Africa
-apartheid
-segregation of blacks
-Afrikaans
-dutch
-1948-1994
-1980 pres. deklerk began reforming to end Apartheid
-1994 Nelson Mandela elected
Libya
-1912-1943=Italy
-1943-1951 G.B.
-1951-Libyan Ind.
-1959- found OIL
-1969 Gadaffi seized power from king
-Sharia Law
-Purges
-helped country
-supported terrist
-unlimited power
-9-11 changed Gaddafi
-2011 Arab sripng
-killed Oct.2011
-2012 dem. gov set up
Uganda
-mine and Sarah's
-they have been in war fro about 20 years
-Idi Amin was one of Uganda’s most notorious rulers, being held accountable for up to 800,000 deaths. Currently, the Lord’s Resistance Army and other militia groups continue to cause terror in unstable areas in Uganda, which has led to the displacement of 1.6 million people. The LRA have been accused of the abduction of around 30,000 children, many of whom are forced into becoming child soldiers. Northern Uganda had suffered from the civil unrest since the early 1980s. Hundreds or people were killed in the rebellion against the government, and 400-thousand people were left homeless. In 1998 and 1999 bombing of several popular resturants, night clubs and other public places.
-the lord's res Army
-10 commandment
1, kill
2. kidnap
3. mut
4. child rape
5. child slav/soilder
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