... many state owned companies and services privatized, downsized civil services, and cut and restructured health and education expenditures in an area where more than half of the population lives in poverty. What structural adjustment had done, instead, was to establish recession and stagnation in Africa. The money the IMF and the World Bank lend to debtor countries comes with strings attached. These ... protections for the manufacturing sector, trade liberalization, and reduced government spending combined with the effects of a severe drought on agricultural production to send the Zimbabwea...

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... . Between 1985 and 1987, biologists captured the last nine California Condors in the wilderness and mated them. In 1992 the biologists tried to return the birds to the wilderness because the population of the birds had grown. By 1997 the population of the birds had increased to 133, which 33 of them live in the wilderness. The American Bald Eagle was once plentiful near lakes and ... coasts in North America, but because hunters prized the bird's white head and ... rhinoceros is also threatened by habitat fragmentation, which is when the contiguous habitats can be fragmented resulting in...

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... system of racial segregation peculiar to the Republic of South Africa, the legal basis of which they largely repealed in 1991 to 1992. The apartheid began when Daniel F. Malan was elected into the government in 1948, and he put the apartheid into play. This changed many lives, not only for blacks, but for ... black people with the same education from working with white people. It was also known that the white people got better jobs then blacks. In 1950, the Population Registration Act required all South Africans to be classified into one of three categories. They were racially classified ...

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... affected African nations. North African countries experienced widespread total unrest, especially in Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia all previously colonized by France. A population explosion and increased industrialization led to the urban growth of cites. Also the growth in cities was additionally advanced as people from the countryside crowded into urban areas in hope of finding some escape from the poverty ridden fields. When ... with neighboring countries. However because of suspected terrorist links and connections with the terrorist bombings of civilian airlines, Libya is still an o...

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... "for example, not only was marriage prohibited between whites and non-whites, but the Immorality Act forbade any sexual contact between blacks and whites. In addition, certain jobs were classified as for whites only. In 1950, the Population Registration Act required that all South Africans be racially classified into one of four categories: white, black (African), Asian, or Coloured (of mixed descent ... -wing Afrikaner groups and internecine fighting among blacks. By the end of 1991 the legal framework of apartheid had been revoked. In a March 1992 referendum a majority of whites endors...

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... shortage and famine, was responsible for half the global disaster-affected population between 1964 and 1993- (Bouma, et al, 1997) Drought affects many countries however some are more able to deal with the natural impacts. In the U.S. drought is unlikely to result in loss of life, deaths that do occur in developed countries are likely to be due to heatwaves associated with drought ... have occurred. However political implications often interfere with management strategies. In the 1984 famine in Africa management strategies were highly successful in peaceful countries, but countries at war...

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