According to the UN, there are ______Africans under 14 nowadays in Africa.
Although many people would not believe it, the mosquito is actually the most dangerous animal in Africa. While the bite of the black mamba is invariably lethal when untreated, this dreaded snake kills only a few dozen people per year. Hippopotami, with their immense strength and foul dispositions, kill hundreds of people per year in rivers and lakes, but the mosquito is still more dangerous. Mosquitoes bite hundreds of millions of people in Africa every year, and they infect over a million each year with malaria, a disease that is often fatal.
Which of the following questions would be most useful in evaluating the claim made above regarding the mosquito?
According to Passage 1, forests in Africa are cleared to allow for all of the following EXCEPT ______.
Aid for Africa The momentum is building ahead of next month’s G8 summit in Scotland where the leaders of the world’s richest nations will debate what they can do to help some of the world’s poorest. Africa is the priority and the politicians will discuss reducing the debt burden, ending trade regulations which put the continent’s economy at a disadvantage, and giving more aid. Mark Doyle, who’s reported from Africa for many years, looks at why aid is necessary, and why much of what’s been donated in the past has not worked.
All around the edge of Africa-along the coastline, near the continents’ ports—are monuments to exploitation. On the island of Goree, for example, just off the coast of Senegal, there’s :the Slave House. This was the last place many Africans saw before being shipped off to a lifetime of slavery in American or, just as often, to death on the high seas.
There are many more places like this dating from the three hundreds and fifty years or so of the African slave trade. When people wonder why Africa is so poor, they need look no further for the start of an explanation.
The end of the slavery was followed by a century of colonialism. Some people argue that colonialism brought limited development—railways and schools and so on—the system was principally designed to turn Africa into a vast plantation and mining site for the profit of outsiders. Of course, some Africans gained from this period. Chiefs who sold their enemies to the European or Arab slavers, for example, and coastal people who creams a little off the colonial trade which flowed through their land.
But on the whole, for almost half a millennium, the general rule was systematic exploitation.
This must, surely, be the basic reason why Africa is poor. You could add that the climate .is punishing, that tropical diseases are fife, and that today’s independent African rulers are far from perfect, all true. But these factors, powerful in recent decades, seem marginal when set against to the pattern that was set for centuries.
The solution, or at least, the project SOLD as the solution to, has been "aid". Emergency aid, development aid, agricultural aid, economic advice. Billions of dollars worth of it. The problem with this solution is that, patently, is hasn’t worked.
On the whole, Africa has got poorer.
The failure hasn’t really been the idea of real aid but the misuse of that term. Clearly, if, in the famous phrases, you "teach a man to fish" you’re probably helping him.
But most aid hasn’t been like that. Most of it has been "top-down" aid, money that’s given to African governments do the political bidding of the aid givers. A good proportion of it has been creamed off by the recipient government’s officials and another large chunk of it paid back to the so-called "donors" in consultancy fees, salaries, cars, houses and servants for aid officials, debt repayments and the purchasing of arms.
And yet, to say aid hasn’t worked IN THE PAST is not the same thing as saying aid CAN’T work.
Given the following two tables: TAB1 C1 C2 1 Antarctica 2 Africa 3 Asia 4 Australia TAB2 CX CY 5 Europe 6 North America 7 South America Which of the following SQL statements will insert all rows found in table TAB2 into table TAB1?()
The World Cup took place on the continent of Africa for the very first time in 2010; ______ were high for an exciting and well-attended event.
It was ______ he came back from Africa that year ______ he met the girl he would like to marry.
On a voyage from Halifax,N.S.,to Dakar,West Africa,the Canary Current will ().
This growth,()mainly in Southeast Asia and Africa, has dramatic consequences.
Given the following tables: CONTINENTS ID NAME COUNTRIES 1 Antarctica 0 2 Africa 53 3 Asia 47 4 Australia 14 5 Europe 43 6 North America 23 7 South America 12 REGION ID LOCATION 1 East 2 West How many rows would be returned using the following statement? SELECT location FROM continents, region()