Current+Instability

__ Current Instability __



Thesis: After the civil war, Sierra Leone was severely crippled due to the devastating damage caused by the war.

= ** The Population of Sierra Leone. ** = = Major Sources of Instability. = = = = ** The Blood Diamond Conflict. ** = = The United Nations Response to Blood Diamonds. =
 * **The Population Growth rate is the highest its been in years for Sierra Leone. **
 * [[image:no.jpg width="800" height="354" caption="Growth rate = (Populaiton at the end of term - Population at the start)/Population at the start of the term"]]
 * **The Population due to the Growth rate has drastically gone up since the end of Sierra Leone's Civil War. **
 * After the Civil war Sierra Leone's health service was unable to keep up the medical supplies to prevent Polio infection.
 * As a result many Africans died or suffered the worst symptoms of the Polio Virus.
 * During and right after the Civil war rebellions scared many African people. The rebels, as a trademark, would cut off the hands and feet of their victims.
 * Blood Diamonds are mined in war zones, primarily in Africa. Insurgent groups sell them to fund their wars. Blood Diamonds, also known as Conflict Diamonds, are illegal and many people are killed in the process of mining them. Blood Diamonds are a huge social issue in places like Sierra Leone, Angola, Liberia, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo because many people have been murdered in process of mining these precious stones.
 * Most of the people who mine for diamonds are usually Africans who are taken from their family and are forced to work as slaves to increase the output of precious stones.
 * Blood Diamonds were also used to fund the Civil War, along with bribing South African groups to help fight orf the Revolutionary United front.
 * The United Nations has implemented a system that guarantees that a diamond is conflict free.
 * This process is called the Kimberly Process certification scheme.
 * When diamonds are to be sold or exported they must undergo this process to assure taht there is no conflict of illegal trafficking of diamonds.

= References used. = [|Debt] [|Graphs used] Wiki used for blood diamond picture and 2 pieces of information. [|Polio and other information]