Democratic Republic Of The Congo Animal

The RPF battalion stationed in Kigali under the Arusha accords came under attack immediately after the shooting down of the president's plane. The battalion fought its way out of Kigali and joined up with RPF units in the north. The RPF then resumed its invasion, and civil war raged concurrently with the genocide for 2 months. French forces landed in Goma, Zaire, in June 1994 on a humanitarian mission. They deployed throughout southwest Rwanda in an area they called "Zone Turquoise," quelling the genocide and stopping the fighting there. The Rwandan Army was quickly defeated by the RPF and fled across the border to Zaire followed by some 2 million refugees who fled to Zaire, Tanzania, and Burundi. The RPF took Kigali on July 4, 1994, and the war ended on July 16, 1994. The RPF took control of a country ravaged by war and genocide. Up to 800,000 had been murdered, another 2 million or so had fled, and another million or so were displaced internally. ... [Read More]

Appendix -- Chapter 4, Environmental Education Volume

Glossary of important terms AIDS: abbreviation for acquired immune deficiency syndrome, a disease which causes people to die because they cannot fight the illnesses they develop [Read More]

Senegal (06/05)

Senegal has participated in many international and regional peacekeeping missions. Its history of participation in peacekeeping is impressive. Most recently, Senegal provided peacekeeping forces for the ECOWAS mission in Liberia (ECOMIL) as well as the ECOWAS mission in Cote d’Ivoire (ECOMICI), with General P.K. Fall, who is now Chief of Defense of the Senegalese Armed Forces, acting as overall Force Commander. In 2000, Senegal sent a battalion to the Democratic Republic of Congo to participate in MONUC, the UN peacekeeping mission, and agreed to deploy a U.S.-trained battalion to Sierra Leone to participate in UNAMSIL, another UN peacekeeping mission. A Senegalese contingent was deployed on a peacekeeping mission to the Central African Republic in 1997, and in 1994, Senegal sent a battalion-sized force to Rwanda to participate in the UN peacekeeping mission there. In 1992 Senegal sent 1,500 men to the ECOMOG peacekeeping group in Liberia, and in 1991, it was the only Sub-Saharan natio ... [Read More]

Tips for Travelers to Sub Saharan Africa

March 2001 Foreword Your trip to Africa will be an adventure off the beaten path. Conditions and customs in sub-Saharan Africa can contrast sharply with those in the United States. These pages contain advice to help you avoid inconvenience and difficulties. Take our advice seriously but don’t let it keep you at home. Most Americans have unforgettable experiences in Africa. We are often welcomed and helped by Africans who are happy to share not just their scenery, but their culture and tradition ... [Read More]

USIS English Teacher Training Activities in Sub-Saharan Africa

The USIS Niamey English Language Program recently hosted a series of four workshops for Niamey high school and junior high school English teachers. These May and June workshops featured demonstration classes to show how a teacher can use communicative teaching techniques in a large class with few resources. A committee of five facilitators, including the program’s director of courses (DOC) Benson, three ETP teachers and English Teaching Fellow (ETF) Shelly Berkowitz, organized and led the four workshops. The workshops were part of an effort to address the disparity of means between the ETP and English teaching in Niamey’s secondary schools. The audience of 140 secondary teachers (including 15 teacher advisors) was given an opportunity to begin thinking about how they might rework their classes to focus more on student language production within the current constraints (of 75-student classes with few or no books, e ... [Read More]

Individual Country Programs

 Niger:  In FY-2003, the Embassy 's SSH Committee selected 13 projects that will address Niger's most crucial problems: access to drinking water and to education.  With collaboration of Peace Corp Volunteers, Self-Help activities will be implemented throughout Niger and will contribute towards the reduction of the country's poverty as  well as achieve Niger's Millennium Development Goals.     Rwanda:  Among the 16 activities supported by Embassy Kigali in FY-03 is a small-animal husbandry revival project, for which each of of the 255 beneficiaries contributed a stable, compost, forage, and part of the veterinary fee. At the end of October, the firs ... [Read More]