Recent Changes

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Economy
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Geography
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Population and Living Statistics
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History
independence in 1960. (CIA)1960 (CIA). Congo struggled 5 years (STATE) then President captain Marien Ngouabi.Ngouabi (STATE). Congo was ever in 1968. (STATE)1968 (STATE). This shaping Lissouba and Sassou-Nguesso. (STATE)Sassou-Nguesso (STATE). There was and Sassou-Nguesso won. (STATE)won (STATE). The effects
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Quotes

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Economy
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Geography
state of Montana. (CIA)Montana (CIA). The climate
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Population and Living Statistics
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History

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Violation of Human Rights
Iraq is sexhuman trafficking. Women
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Poverty
Complex and divided
Issues: human trafficking and drug transiting(BBC)(CIA)
Quote
The United Nations Human Rights Chief, Navi Pillay says: “ Urgent action is needed to protect the civilians.”
Works Cited
BBC. "Iraq, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria Profile." BBC News. N.P, 24 Oct. 2011. Web. 17 Nov. 2011. <http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/ world-middle-east-14542954>.

The economy is currently going through a reform
Issues: human trafficking and drug transiting
export partners (BBC)(CIA)
Lebanon
Borders the Mediterranean Sea and is between Israel and Syria
Laissez-faire commercial tradition (government does minimum)
Complex and divided
and drug transitingtransiting(BBC)(CIA)
Works Cited
BBC. "Iraq, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria Profile." BBC News. N.P, 24 Oct. 2011. Web. 17 Nov. 2011. <http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/ world-middle-east-14542954>.

Djibouti
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Djibouti Background
2011 April - Guelleh wins a third term as president in an election boycotted by the opposition.
2011 June-September - Horn of Africa hit by worst drought in 60 years.
A military official at the Pentagon says they learned how quickly Somalis would unite against any U.S. presence in their country. "Any armed foreign forces are viewed as enemies. As soon as a Somali sees one of our guys, that's it." The U.S. military has several encampments along the Kenyan side of Somalia's border. In neighboring Djibouti , there is a U.S. base focused on regional counterterrorism, the Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa, which was set up in 2002.
France has thousands of troops as well as warships, aircraft and armoured vehicles in Djibouti, contributing directly and indirectly to the country's income. The US has stationed hundreds of troops in Djibouti, its only African base, in an effort to counter terrorism in the region.
After independence from France in 1977, Djibouti was left with a government which enjoyed a balance between the two main ethnic groups, the Issa of Somali origin and the Afar of Ethiopian origin.
But the country's first president, Hassan Gouled Aptidon, installed an authoritarian one-party state dominated by his own Issa community. Afar resentment erupted into a civil war in the early 1990s, and though Mr Gouled, under French pressure, introduced a limited multi-party system in 1992, the rebels from the Afar party, the Front for the Restoration of Unity and Democracy (Frud), were excluded.
Thus, Mr Gouled's Popular Rally for Progress party won every seat and the war went on. It ended in 1994 with a power-sharing deal which brought the main faction of Frud into government. A splinter, radical faction continued to fight until 2000, when it too signed a peace deal with the government of Gouled's successor, Ismael Omar Guelleh.
Economy
The country of Djibouti is about 428 million dollars in debt, with about 42% of the population below the poverty line. (CIA) In the urban areas about 59% of the population is unemployed and in the rural areas of Djibouti 83% of the population is unemployed. (CIA) When it comes to agriculture Djibouti produces fruits, vegetables, goats, sheep, camels, and animal hides. (CIA) Djibouti makes the most profit from its harbors. Djibouti City handles most of Ethiopian imports and exports, and it also exports hides and skins, and coffee.

Because of large military spending, less money was available for goods and services that people need.
Food Shortages. Worldwide aid has helped the people escape starvation.
Account data (CIA)
Poverty Statistics:
North Korea's GDP is $40 billion annually which is ranked 99th in the world.

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Yemen Facts
of all breadwinners arere illiterate
In rural areas, fewer than one in three girls go to school
300,000 people are displaced, refugees in their own country
11 million of Yemen’s 17 million people are under 18-years-old
An estimated 40% of young people are unemployed (save the children)
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Yemen Geography
Yemen is a country located in the middle east south of Saudi Arabia and west of Oman. This country also borders three bodies of water the Gulf of Aden, The Arabian Sea and The Red Sea.Yemen is 527,968 sq km country comparison to the world: 50 land: 527,968 sq km water: 0 sq km note: includes Perim, Socotra, the former Yemen Arab Republic (YAR or North Yemen), and the former People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (PDRY or South Yemen). Yemen faces many problems such as limited natural freshwater resources; inadequate supplies of potable water; overgrazing; soil erosion; desertification.Yemen is mostly desert; hot and humid along west coast; temperate in western mountains affected by seasonal monsoon; extraordinarily hot, dry, harsh desert in east. Another geographical issue for Yemen is sandstorms and dust storms in summer volcanism: Yemen experiences limited volcanic activity; Jebel at Tair (Jabal al-Tair, Jebel Teir, Jabal al-Tayr, Jazirat at-Tair) (elev. 244 m), which forms an island in the Red Sea, erupted in 2007 after awakening from dormancy; other historically active volcanoes include Harra of Arhab, Harras of Dhamar, Harra es-Sawad, and Jebel Zubair, although many of these have not erupted in over a century. (CIA)
Agriculture: grain, fruits, vegetables, pulses, qat, coffee, cotton; dairy products, livestock (sheep, goats, cattle, camels), poultry; fish.
(Most Yemenis chew the leaves of a plant called qat (also spelled khat). These leaves contain a mild stimulant and produce a feeling of well-being. On many afternoons, men and women gather separately in groups and chew qat). Most people are employed in agriculture and herding; services, construction, industry, and commerce account for less than one-fourth of the labor force.
Human Rights And Save The Children
In Yemen, a key factor contributing to poverty is the lack of education. Despite recent gains in enrollment, school statistics in Yemen remain among the lowest in the Arab world. That’s why Save the Children is targeting an increase in education programs to more than 45,000 boys and girls. To support over 40 class and resource rooms, clean water and sanitation facilities were built or repaired.(save the children). 1,600 children who have experienced violence, recruitment, detention, separation or trafficking will receive psychosocial, medical and judicial assistance and be reintegrated into their communities. Access to better health-care services can decrease child deaths and illness. To that end, at least 60,000 children under age 5 in Sa’ada will benefit from a full set of vaccinations. Children living in displaced settlements are more vulnerable to undernutrition. Some 80,000 children with severe acute malnutrition will receive. The lives of Yemen’s children and women are being severely circumscribed by a complex mix of acute emergencies and chronic underdevelopment: insecurity in the Sa’ada Governorate in the north; strife in the south; displacement resulting from both; lack of food and water. At the same time, there is minimal access to services to mitigate these conditions, such as health care, potable water and sanitation, education and protection, and minimal humanitarian space for outside actors to address immediate needs. Hundreds of thousands of displaced persons, 70 percent of them. (save the children)
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Yemen History
1967 - Formation of southern Yemen, comprising Aden and former Protectorate of South Arabia. Country is later officially known as the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (PDRY). Programme of nationalisation begins.