Today we did blog discussion over African country's
Somalia- civil war started in the 80s has lots of piracy and terrorism from the al shabab and a new president was elected and was attacked but he survived
DRC- ind. from belgium in 1960 ruled by mabuto seko he was supported by us because he was anti-communist he was convicted by human rights violations, corruption he also had a kind of cult of personality. They had two civil wars and killed a lot of people and displaced a lot also. know have a transitional government and there president is Joseph Kabila.
South Africa- Dutch wanted the blacks out of the big cities and segregated them and sent them to small villages and keeping there population down. In 1990 president De Klerk began reforms to end apartheid and they elected nelson mandela as president.
Libya- 1912-1943 it was ruled by Italy then 1943- 1951 it was ruled by Great Britain. they then found oil and it became there major resource and he controlled people with violence. He was killed in the arab spring of 2011 and in 2012 Libya got a democratic government.
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