The Duration of Unemployment in Sub-Saharan Africa: Study Using Microeconomic Data from the Republic of Congo

The article considers the impact of the colonial past of some countries in sub-Saharan Africa and its effect on their development during the post-colonial period. The negative consequences of the geopolitical legacy of colonialism are shown on the example of three countries: Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of Angola, expressed in the emergence of conflicts in these countries based on ethno-cultural, religious and socio-economic contradictions. At the same time, the focus is made on the economic factor and the consequences of the consumer policy of the former metropolises pursuing their mercantile interests were mixed.

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Security Risks facing Chinese Actors in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of the Democratic Republic of Congo

China and Africa ◽

10.1007/978-3-319-52893-9_13 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 253-265

Author(s):

Wang Duanyong ◽

Zhao Pei

Keyword(s):

Democratic Republic ◽

Democratic Republic Of Congo ◽

Sub Saharan Africa ◽

Security Risks ◽

Republic Of Congo ◽

Sub Saharan

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COMPLICATIONS OF PREGNANCY AMONG ADOLESCENTS AND ADULT MOTHERS TREATED IN A PUBLIC HOSPITAL, THE REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA: A RETROSPECTIVE COMPARATIVE STUDY

Malaysian Journal of Public Health Medicine ◽

10.37268/mjphm/vol.20/no.3/art.448 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 20 (3) ◽

pp. 140-146

Author(s):

Siti Khuzaimah Ahmad Sharoni ◽

Alieu Sekou Konneh

Keyword(s):

Adolescent Mothers ◽

Pregnancy Complications ◽

Public Hospital ◽

Sub Saharan Africa ◽

Eligibility Criteria ◽

Chi Square ◽

Chi Square Test ◽

Sub Saharan ◽

The Republic ◽

Retrospective Comparative Study

Complications of pregnancy remain a serious threat in Sub-Saharan Africa despite efforts to minimise maternal mortality due to pregnancy complications, and achieve the Millennium Development Goal 5. This is a retrospective study to determine the most common pregnancy complications among adolescents compared to adults treated in a public hospital from 2015 to 2018. The researcher applied a convenience sampling method in selecting the medical records. The instrument used was adapted from previous studies and data were analysed with descriptive and chi-square test for the inferential statistics. A total of 1,265 patients met the eligibility criteria and 540 (42.7%) were adolescents. Low birth weight (n=478, 88.5%) and preterm delivery (n=496, 91.9%) were common among babies born to adolescent mothers. Pregnancy-related complications among adolescent mothers showing the prevalence of anaemia, hypertension, and malaria were 494 (84.9%), 149 (56.2%) and 193 (62.1%) respectively. Gestational diabetes was found to be high among adult mothers (n=98, 74.8%). Among adolescent mothers, the prevalence of eclampsia was 62 (78.5%) and hemorrhage 61 (53.0%). The prevalence of Intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) was high among adolescent mothers (n=252, 80.5%). Comprehensive strategies are needed to keep girls in schools and to raise awareness and develop campaigns about using contraception properly to reduce the incidence of adolescent pregnancy as well as to minimise the incidence of pregnancy-related complications.

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Law Reform in a Developing Country: A New Code of Obligations for Senegal

Journal of African Law ◽

10.1017/s0021855300001157 ◽

1964 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

pp. 6-19

Author(s):

E. Allan Farnsworth

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Developing Country ◽

Legal Profession ◽

The United States ◽

The State ◽

Sub Saharan Africa ◽

Law Reform ◽

Private Law ◽

Sub Saharan ◽

The Republic

The Republic of Senegal has embarked upon a project to reform its private law. This fact, of itself, might not seem worthy of the attention of the legal profession in the United States, since Senegal is a country of only about 3,250,000 inhabitants, less than the population of the state of Alabama, covering only 76,000 square miles, less than the area of the state of Kansas, and having a total of exports and imports to the dollar zone of less than twelve million dollars in 1962. With twenty per cent of its population in its six largest cities of more than 30,000 inhabitants, it is the most urban, most literate, and most Europeanized of the francophonic countries of sub-Saharan Africa, but this alone would evoke little interest abroad in its attempts at law reform.

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Impacts of Covid-19 on Migration Dynamics and Remittances in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)

African Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities Research ◽

10.52589/ajsshr-toikmmav ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 4 (4) ◽

pp. 126-139

Author(s):

Abejide L.E.O. ◽

Alaba S.

Keyword(s):

Sub Saharan Africa ◽

X Rays ◽

Demographic Dynamics ◽

Migration Dynamics ◽

Sub Saharan ◽

The Republic ◽

Ssa Countries

The paper therefore x-rays the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on migration dynamics by analyzing types and trends dynamics of migrants’ movement, demographic dynamics of migration as related to the inflow of remittances (both cash and in-kind) to SSA countries prior to the pandemic. Also discusses the constraints of transferring cash remittances and subsequent decline posed by the COVID-19 outbreak during and beyond the pandemics. Secondary evidence from Somali and Nigeria were analyzed on the constraints of remitting cash, while in-kind remittance from the Republic of Chad was evaluated. The importance of remittances to the home communities was established. Measures to safeguard SSA migrants’ mobility and their remittances, citing some selected countries of destination, were exploited. The paper concludes that COVID-19 impacts on migration should be opportunities for policymakers (both home and destination countries) to reset their efforts towards protecting migrants and their future activities.

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Perceptions about Epilepsy in the Limpopo Province of the Republic of South Africa

Curationis ◽

10.4102/curationis.v26i4.877 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 26 (4) ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

ML Mangena-Netshikweta

Keyword(s):

Central Africa ◽

Limpopo Province ◽

Physical Contact ◽

Sub Saharan Africa ◽

Evil Spirits ◽

Sub Saharan ◽

The Republic ◽

The Devil ◽

The Brain ◽

Epileptic Fits

In rural African communities, there are widespread beliefs that epilepsy is due to possession of bewitchment by evil spirits or the devil. There is also a belief that the transmission of the disease is by physical contact, such as by saliva (Osuntokun 1990:106). In central Africa, as well as in Sub-Saharan Africa, epilepsy is attributed to the presence of a lizard in the brain, and epileptic fits occur whenever the lizard moves ( Haddock 1993:118 ; Nyame 1997:143 ). Such perceptions toward epilepsy and a person with epilepsy, in indigenous Africa, are invariably unfavourable and unfounded as they reflect mythical beliefs about the disease.

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The Politics of the 1969 Somali Coup

The Journal of Modern African Studies ◽

10.1017/s0022278x0002262x ◽

1972 ◽

Vol 10 (3) ◽

pp. 383-408 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

I. M. Lewis

Keyword(s):

National Identity ◽

General Rule ◽

Cultural Nationalism ◽

Sub Saharan Africa ◽

The Real ◽

Parliamentary System ◽

New States ◽

Sub Saharan ◽

The Republic ◽

The Military

In the lives of nations, as of men, reputations all too often achieve their widest currency when they are already out of date. The Somali Republic is no exception to this general rule. Although the real circumstances had already significantly altered before the military brusquely seized power in October 1969, Somalia was still generally known for democracy at home and trouble abroad. The first of these characterisations referred to the striking persistance of a vigorous and effective multi-party parliamentary system, and the second to the seemingly uniquely intractable nature of the ‘Somali Dispute’ which committed the Republic to supporting the secessionist claims of the contiguous Somali populations of Kenya, Ethiopia, and French Somaliland, at the price of severely strained relations with these neighbouring states. These and other attributes unusual amongst the new states of sub-Saharan Africa appeared to be closely connected with the Republic's exuberant sense of national identity, a quality all the more remarkable in being firmly grounded in a long-standing and entirely traditional cultural nationalism.

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