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This article is about a black South African who was exiled because of his writings about the apartheid government. This connects to the issues addressed in this activity because is shows how serious apartheid is and how is still exists.

On his way to attend the Nobel Peace conference, the Dalai Lama was denied a visa to enter South Africa. This is the third time in five years that South Africa has denied a visa to the Dalai Lama. This coordinates with our lesson as that this article deals with oppression and during apartheid, races were oppressed from various things.

This article talks about a mining company in South Africa. This relates to the issues addressed in this article because of how the economy is greatly influenced by white-foreign companies.

This article discusses how HIV and AIDS in South Africa dropped dramatically with the help of funding from the USA, who provided education for doctors and medicine for those who were infected. However, since the USA is now funding other countries, South Africa is now seeing another rise in AIDS, which many hope is only temporary as the country struggles to pay for more AIDS care. This relates to our research since it describes what has been done with AIDS in South Africa and what now needs to be done.

A German-American journalist who taken more than two years ago while in Somalia was freed by his captors on Tuesday. The journalist had been released after a ransom was paid. This relates to Somalia, because it deals with the terror and pirates in Somalia.

The number of Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of Congo doubled over the past week to 62, the World Health Organization reported Thursday, and more than half the afflicted patients have died. In the DRC, Ebola has been tacked down to four villages in one county.

Recently, the number of Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have been increasing exponentially. It has over doubled since it first began. It has been reported that over half of the infected have died as a result to the disease. This year, more people have died from Ebola than ever before. The economy in these countries could decrease by as much as 3.5% due to disruptions in the industries such as mining.

This article talks about the AIDS issue in South Africa. This connects to the issue of AIDS addressed in this activity through how AIDS has greatly affected the people of South Africa.

A roadside ad that stated "Tombstones, buy one get one free." This was the essence of AIDS in years as recent as 2008. Now South Africa is one of the most praised countries in Africa with its abilities to fight AIDS, especially during the Ebola virus outbreak.

This article describes the battle of HIV that Africa has continually fought against for decades. With the poverty stricken hospitals and low medical care it has become increasingly difficult to handle this disease. All in all, this disease has decreased the population as well as the life expectancy rate/age.

This article describes the attack that occurred one year ago, where gunmen from the Shabab militant group in Somalia laid siege to the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya. This relates to the article "Somlia Militants Mixing Business and Terror", as they talked about large scale attacks on civilians and even stated this incident/massacre directly.