SOCIAL STUDIES NOTES 3

Government Systems and Genocides

All countries have dictatorships other than South Africa, Ethiopia, Botswana. (Technically others are also republics on paper but lack Republic features)

Monarchies in Africa, Lesotho, and Eswatini.

Health Issues

• Less than 25% of Africa’s land is suitable for agriculture because of Dessetification, Cities built on farms, political unrest/civil wars, and Climate Change. This all lead to famine in Farfur, Somalia, East Africa, Niger, Congo, and Ethiopia.
• HIV/AIDS, 15% to 33% of adults have AIDS in southern african contries. Aids is found in mostly working age adults. Almost all sub saharan contries have issues with aids. .Southern Africa is leading the area of Aids and HIV infected people with 25%.
• EBOLA, Which is fatal about 70% of the time.
• Malaria, which is transfered by mosquitos. This caused sickle cell anemia as african peoples had children. This explains why many of african decent has sickle cell anemia.
• Covid-19, Covid 19 had not been to affecting Africa until omicron. Africa has less deaths in the united states at 222,276 deaths. This is for the entire continent.

Issues In Africa

The first country to gain independence is South Africa. Many other countries followed in the 1960s and quickly became dictatorships. Additionally, most of these countries stuck with imperialist borders and not ancient tribal borders, creating ethnic conflict. Examples of these ethnic conflicts are the Nigeria- Biafran War, Somalia, Rwandan Civil War, and Sudan’s Darfur region.

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