Nigeria or the Federal Republic of Nigeria is a federal constitutional republic comprising of 36 states. The capital is Abuja and the states are further divided into 774 Local government Areas. It has a population of 168.8 million (World Bank). It is the most populous country in Africa which is comprised of over 250 ethnic groups with 50% of them being Muslims and rest other minorities. The living standards are very poor and there is not a proper health care system in Nigeria. The GDP of Nigeria
comprised of 26 states and a federal district. The government is styled like the United States as a federal republic with three branches; executive, legislative and judicial. The executive branch is led by an elected President and Vice president, who appoint cabinet ministers that run various government agencies, a legislative branch which is split into two; the Federal Senate and the Chamber of Deputies, and the judicial branch which has three tribunals; the Supreme Federal tribunal, the Superior Tribunal
The Bosnian War was an international armed conflict that took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina between 6 April 1992 and 14 December 1995. The war involved several factions. The main belligerents were the forces of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina and those of the self-proclaimed Bosnian Serb and Bosnian Croat entities within Bosnia and Herzegovina. There was also a very brave man named Bozo Stegic who has save about 200 innocent lives. He is currently 86 years old and lives in Prijedor, Bosnia
years later the country’s area had been reduced by 60 percent and its population of 23 million cut by more than half. The provinces of Slovenia, Croatia, Macedonia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina had seceded, leaving Serbia and Montenegro as the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The description below covers Yugoslavia, as it existed prior to disintegration. Yugoslavia has a mountainous terrain. The northwestern area consists of the Karawanken and Julian alps in Slovenia. The latter range contains Mount
Following the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina's declaration of independence from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia the three factions fought for territory that would now be their homes. The Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina claimed the area that once made up the Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina in April of 1992 but the Serbs were not content with the new leadership and left the new Republic and began preparations for war, aided with heavy
Serbia, and Croatia became apart of Federal People’s Republic of Yugoslavia, when the Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito died in 1980, the union between the several countries under the Yugoslav power seemed to be threatened to separate. When a Serbian leader, Slobodan Milosevic provoked a dissatisfaction between Serbians in Bosnia and Croatia and their Bosnian and Croatian neighbors, lead to an insuming war. When Milosevic was elected president of the republic of Serbia in 1989, an oncoming movement
president of the Republic of Serbia. Milosevic envisioned a pure Serb dominated state. He soon started encouraging violent uprisings against the Bosniaks, Muslims, and Croats from the Serbs. Slobodan Milosevic started the Bosnian Genocide because he imagined a pure Serb dominated state. Milosevic had much pride and arrogance in having power that he started this war. He didn’t want Croats, Bosniaks, or anyone but Serbs to be in their state. Once the Cold War ended, the Socialist Federal of Yugoslavia
Cause of Yugoslavia's Revolution The key terms of the question are the terms 'primordial hatreds' of the nationalities involved and also the time period that is set, the 1990s. The term primordial is an adjective defined as "existing at or from the beginning."[1] To address the question I will discuss the way in which the violent disintegration of the former Yugoslavia was due to this, and also to the extent that it was
This paper is analysis of The Croatian War of Independence, It was fought between Croatian forces devoted to Croatian the government between 1990-1995, the war started when Croatia declared their independence from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The Serbians had control over the Yugoslavian People’s Army as well as cooperative local Serbian forces. Croatia intended to break away from Yugoslavia to become an independent country, while Serbians living in Croatia, supported the Yugoslavian
Yugoslavia was a country in Southeast Europe during most of the 20th century. It came into existence after World War I in 1918 under the name of Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes with independent Kingdom of Serbia and Kingdom of Montenegro. Yugoslavia gained international recognition on 13 July 1922 at the Conference of Ambassadors in Paris. This modern Yugoslavia existed from 1945 until the 90’s. Before the 20th century, the region found itself between two great empires, the Ottoman Empire
I: Background After the Second World War, the Balkan states of Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia, Macedonia and Slovenia joined the Federal People’s Republic of Yugoslavia. Years later, in 1980, after the untimely death of Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito, the growing nationalism and patriotism among the different Yugoslav people threatened to split their still fragile union apart. This process reached a tipping point in the mid-1980s during the rise of the former Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic
The last two decades of the twentieth century gave rise to turbulent times for constituent republics of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, eventually leading them to split apart. There were a number of damaging aspects of past history and of the political and economic circumstances that contributed to the breakup and eventually caused the situation to snowball into a deadly series of inter-ethnic conflicts. Yugoslavia was reunified at the end of the war when the communist forces of Josip
The Bosnian Genocide: It was Completely Preventable Imagine if today there was an attempt by a major military power to violently slaughter and exile the native people of a neighboring country, using the same tactics the Nazis used in the Holocaust. Surely there would be a worldwide uproar, and powerful nations would organize to stop the violent annexation and genocide, right? Unfortunately, such an event has already happened, practically within the last twenty years. Despite the fact that many people
launched the Belgrade Offensive to liberate the city from German forces. The first post-war elections were set for 11 November 1945, with Tito’s Communist Party dominating the results with over 90% of the vote , with Tito proclaiming the Federal People’s Republic of Yugoslavia , and the new Yugoslav Constituent Assembly formally abolishing the monarchy. The election confirmed that the people of Yugoslavia supported Tito, as he was viewed as the liberator of Yugoslavia from the Germans . Tito, as
The members of the ethnic group of the Algo looks forward to working with the representatives of the three other ethnic groups living on the territory of the Republic of Jarth, respectively: Randies, Takas and Dorfas, in order to create a new constitution for the renewed Democratic Republic of Jarth. As a representative of the Algo ethnic group, I want to say that our people would like the new state to introduce a parliamentary system of governence. Parliamentarism is a system of government in which
Balkan Peninsula, in the early 1990s, war and chaos were raging yet again. However, this war, unlike the two previous Balkan wars that were fought against the occupiers, was a civil one. The member states of once great and glorified Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY) turned against each other. In 1991, Croatia and Slovenia declared their independence which initiated the Breakup of Yugoslavia (Pavkovic 136). Many causes led to this outcome, some of which were death of Josip Broz Tito,
One of the numerous results of the fall of communism in Europe, the Bosnian Genocide is considered to be the largest massacre in European history since WWII. Lasting for an estimated time of 3 years, the Bosnian Genocide wiped out millions of citizens; specifically Muslim Bosnians (known as Bosniaks). The country, Bosnia and Herzegovina, went through cultural desegregation as well as religious tensions that rose as time progressed. Bosnia and Herzegovina, located just west of Serbia, is a European
irreconcilable; at an augmentation of federal authority without a diminution of State authority; at sovereignty in the Union and complete independence in the members” (103). Hamilton’s depiction of the faults of the Anti-federalists’ position emphasizes the uncompromising and self-destructive nature of their argument against the Constitution. He then goes on to explain the defects in the current Articles of Confederation, detailing the inability of the federal government to acquire substantial funds
Mexico, has 31 states and one federal district. Mexico is run by a federal republic under a centralized government. Mexico’s government is similar to America’s government. It consists of a Executive, Legislative and Judicial Branch. A new President is elected every six years in Mexico. The President of Mexico can only serve one term. In America we elect our President every four years and can serve for two terms. Enrique Pena Nieto is the current President. He was elected in 2012.
a conflict of interest between Josip Broz Tito and Joseph Stalin, the respective leaders of the Nations. Through this essay my aim is to highlight the causes of the dispute and then discuss the consequences of the split for both the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union. The period of 1948-1955 was known as the Informbiro and the distinguishing features of this period were conflict and schism between Yugolslavia and the Soviet Union. The main causes for the Split were the