But many experts worry about this process of urbanization. We can see that urbanization is having a huge effect on human health and the quality of the environment. Of the three billion people who live in cities now, one billion live in unplanned settlements. These are areas of poverty, ...
[听力原文] 28-30 The first of an expected 4,000 Pakistani soldiers have arrived in Sierra Leone to bolster existing U. N. peacekeeping forces. A spokeswoman for the U. N. mission in Sierra Leone, Margaret Nowicki, says 265 Pakistani soldiers arrived Thursday in the capital, Freetown. U. ...
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THE AMERICANS call it Mission Creep. The British in Sierra Leone are calling it a helping hand. In this case they are assisting beleaguered peace-keepers, but unmistakably, the British military deployment is changing direction.Moore, Robert
The concept of security is the driver for peacebuilding and development, as well as social and political change in post-conflict countries. A review and analysis of three key government documents indicates that, in Sierra Leone, securitisation discourse is embedded in both the political economy disco...
The incidence rate (感染率) of Ebola in Sierra Leone is about 100 times higher for health care workers than it was for other people in the country. Sierra Leone doctor KombaSongu-M’briwa got infected after treating a patient (who later died). He said that the Ebola field work was “...
According to the United Nations the poorest people in the world live on less than 8.5 yuan a day. Most of those people live in African countries like Sierra Leone and Somalia. These countries often have wars and lots of diseases. (2) Now more than 1 billion people in the world live in...
Haja Wurie of ReBUILD Sierra Leone and Tim Martineau took part in a meeting organised by USAID on Ebola at the Health Systems Symposium in Cape Town. They shared a stage with Tim Evans, Director of Population Health at the World Bank. Haja presented her first-hand experience of how Ebola ...
The poverty of a locality can look even worse when contrasted with the comfortable hotel environment where the average life expectancy is 75 years, may well generate resentment in Sierra Leone, where the local population can expect to live to no more than 41 years. The relative prosperity of ...
How poverty, density, and fragmentation in Sierra Leone's capital city fueled the spread of the deadly Ebola virus.