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Congo is a 342,000-square-kilometer country in Equatorial Africa.Its population is just over 7 million inhabitants, of which 47% is less than 15 years old. Life expectancy is 55.8 years old for men and 58.9 years for women, and 33% of the population lives in rural areas. 12.6% of the Congolese budget is spent on education; 40% on primary education, 31% on secondary level, and 27% on tertiary ...
2009 Bolivia: Dengue fever: 18 [260] 2009 Gujarat hepatitis outbreak: 2009 India Hepatitis B: 49 [261] Queensland 2009 dengue outbreak 2009 Queensland, Australia Dengue fever: 1+ (503 cases) [262] 2009–2010 West African meningitis outbreak: 2009–2010 West Africa: Meningitis: 1,100 [263] 2009 swine flu pandemic: 2009–2010 Worldwide ...
Primary school students in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Primary education in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is not free or compulsory. [1]The education system in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is governed by three government ministries: the Ministère de l'Enseignement Primaire, Secondaire et Professionnel (MEPSP), the Ministère de l'Enseignement Supérieur et ...
The Child Protection Law of 2009 sets the minimum age for full-time work at 18, unless a parent consents. With parental consent, minors 15–18 may work, but no more than four hours a day. Children are barred from carrying heavy objects. This law is widely unenforced.
Following warnings and increased preparedness in the 2000s, the 2009 swine flu pandemic led to rapid anti-pandemic reactions amongst the Western countries. The H1N1/09 virus strain with mild symptoms and low lethality eventually led to a backlash over public sector over-reactiveness, spending, and the high cost of the 2009 flu vaccine.
[23] [24] [25] The river was known as Zaire during the 16th and 17th centuries; Congo seems to have replaced Zaire gradually in English usage during the 18th century, and Congo is the preferred English name in 19th-century literature, although references to Zaire as the name used by the natives (i.e., derived from Portuguese usage) remained ...
Epidemic and Peace, 1918. Greenwood Press 1976. Republished as America's Forgotten Pandemic. America's Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918. Cambridge University Press 1989, 2003. [15] Originally published as Epidemic and Peace, 1918. Available in Japanese translation. Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900–1900 ...
King Leopold II, whose rule of the Congo Free State was marked by severe atrocities, violence and major population decline.. Even before his accession to the throne of Belgium in 1865, the future king Leopold II began lobbying leading Belgian politicians to create a colonial empire in the Far East or in Africa, which would expand and enhance Belgian prestige. [2]