List of world's poorest countries

Poorest regions in the world ever happened on the African continent

Poverty seems to still be a major problem worldwide, especially in southern Asia and Africa.

It was revealed from the publication of leading U.S. business magazine, Global Finance, which released the latest data list of rich and poor countries in the world.

The magazine showcases 182 countries around the world from the richest to the poorest. If the most rich countries are held by Qatar, while the poorest position held by the Republic of Congo.

Poorest regions in the world ever happened on the African continent, the continent that often experience famine, and often face a prolonged conflict, either in the form of rebellion and civil war.

A study from the World Institute on the United Nations University report njomplangnya much as 1 percent of the world's richest people control 40 percent of global assets, even 10 percent of the world's richest people control 85 percent of the assets of the world.

Conversely, the World Bank noted in 2008 of 1.4 billion people live with U.S. $ 1.25 per day. It covers nearly 15 percent of the world's population, or nearly 1 billion persons. However, since 2001 as many as 192 UN member states began to follow the program "Millennium Development Goal" with the aim of eradicating extreme poverty and famine.

If yesterday we display a list profiles the wealthiest country in the world, here is a list of the world's poorest countries.

1. republic Congo

The number one ranked the world's poorest, income per capita population of the Congo for U.S. $ 342 or Rp3 million per year. Congo's GDP level of U.S. $ 10.7 billion in 2008 with the economy relying on agriculture, wood products such as coffee, as well as natural resources such as gems, gold and oil.

Located on the African continent, the Congo has an area 342 thousand square kilometers with a population of only 3.7 million inhabitants. The total population living in poverty as much as 74 percent with a life expectancy of 55 years.

2. Zimbabwe

A man in the City of Harare, Zimbabwe, Zimbabwean dollars drying the amount of money is the second poorest country in the world. Level of income per capita of population of Zimbabwe amounted to U.S. $ 365 or Rp3, 28 million per year. Country's economy relies on the African continent such as cotton farming, such as tobacco and gold and platinum mining, and textile industries.

Zimbabwe's economy is also often a mess. Imagine, Zimbabwe is one country with the highest inflation record in the world, never even reached 11.2 million percent in August 2008. Zimbabwe is also known as a country that had issued a fraction of the world's largest currency, ie 100 billion Zimbabwean dollars.

3. Burundi

refugees in Burundi Burundi is ranked third as the world's poorest countries located in Africa. Burundi's per capita income of U.S. citizens $ 410 or Rp3, 69 million per year. This country's GDP is only U.S. $ 1.1 billion in foreign reserves in 2008 with just U.S. $ 322 million. With a total area of 27 thousand square kilometers, the population reached 8.1 million people of Burundi. Of that amount, as much as 93.4 percent of the population living in poor conditions. The average life expectancy is only 49 years old.

4. Liberia

Liberian refugees in Liberia, occupies the fourth position as the world's poorest countries with per capita income of U.S. $ 434 or Rp3, 9 million per year. Total GDP of this country amounted to U.S. $ 870 million and relying mostly on agriculture income, such as rubber, coffee and chocolate. Although the extent of 111 thousand square kilometers in the continent of Africa, Liberia's total population was just 4.13 million people. Most or 94.8 percent also live in poverty.

5. Eritria

Population in Eritria Located in East Africa, Eritria is the fifth poorest country in the world. Level of income per capita of U.S. $ 676 or Rp6 million per year. Eritria economy relies on agriculture, such as tobacco, cotton, sorghum and cattle, as well as industrial sectors like textile, cement and food. Eritria total GDP of U.S. $ 1.6 billion in 2008. The total area of 117 square kilometers Eritria with a population of only 4.9 million inhabitants.

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After Beckham, Anderson Nude Pose

England cricket famous athlete, James Michael Anderson posed nude for a gay magazine published by the British edition in October.

This 28-year-old player merupkan a family and the father of a child. He would pose in the October edition of Attitude magazine. This magazine has a market share of gay people.

Anderson admitted no problem with his actions. "I think this is a fantastic thing for cricket," said Anderson, who posed with a stick cricket accessories.

Anderson is a British athlete for the umpteenth boards that appear on the cover of the magazine, after the football athletes like David Beckham, Freddie Ljungberg and former Wales rugby player, Gareth Thomas.

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Police Burn Marijuana, Child inhales SD

Police in a small town in New Zealand made ashamed by the incident burning of confiscated marijuana. Section, which burned marijuana smoke that blew into an elementary school (SD).

According to the daily The Marlborough Express, as contained in pages Stuff, the event took place at St Joseph Elementary School in the town of Picton on Friday morning, 17 September 2010. At that time, the children already in school.

Initially, the principal, Peter Knowles smell a "bizarre." Having traced the sharp smell came from the police station, a distance of 200 meters from the school.

Apparently, police then confiscated marijuana was burned in a special incinerator. Police Sergeant Peter Payne admitted to not think that the wind changed so fast that smoke marijuana that is burned to bring to school. According to him, the smoke from the kilns had been directed to areas that are uninhabited.

"Suddenly a gust of winds from another direction. So the event could not be controlled and the forces of nature," said Payne. Directly off the police after receiving reports that the burning of the school principal.

It is not clear, how much influence had smoked marijuana for students who are studying. However, parents of a student admitted to The Marlborough Express has not previously heard of burning marijuana in the police station and he was worried about the effect of the smoke for children in school.

Payne admitted that combustion facilities in police stations is relatively small. Typically, marijuana confiscated in large volumes were destroyed in the burning of commercial products.

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Pilot Killed in Crash on "Germany Airshow"

A pilot was killed in a collision in the air at the air show planes retro in southern Germany, according to Die Welt newspaper report quoted by the RIA-Novosti news.
Two planes collided Saturday evening at an airport near the town Warngau, about 40 miles south of Munich.
One plane was still airborne and the pilot was still master and make an emergency landing, while the second plane crashed and burned quickly.
Organizers canceled the second day of performances and exhibitions. Germany Airshow `` retro involving 82 aircraft, planned to be held on Sunday.
The accident occurred about two weeks after the incident near the German city, Nuremberg.
A woman was killed and 38 others injured when a plane turned off the runway while taking off and hit a crowd of spectators who were surprised by the incident.

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Mosque Will Be Part of the Greater German

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said the German people have so long failed to capture how immigration changed their country and be familiar with the scenery more mosques in their cities, as one newspaper reported.

Germany, with a Muslim population reaches at least 4 million, has been split a few weeks recently the one that triggered the debate about the integration of members of the central bank's statement related to the country of Muslim immigrants.

"Our country will change and integration is also a task for the people who picked up the immigrants," said Merkel told the daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

"For years we deceive ourselves about this. Mosque, for example, would be a more important part in our cities than ever before," he said.

Thilo Sarrazin of the Bundesbank was the first person who touched the trigger debates about religion and integration. He believes the Turkish and Arab immigrants fail to integrate and flooded Germany with a higher birth rate.

Switzerland sparked international condemnation last year when it decided to ban the construction of the tower.

Disputes over religion has occurred in the United States over the last few weeks thanks to plans to build a center of Islamic culture in the location of the World Trade Center collapse.

Meanwhile, relations between Berlin and Paris disrupted this week by a dispute between Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy of France for the expulsion of migrant Roma.

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Thousands Watch Customary "Pukul Sapu (Hit Sweep)"

Thousands of citizens from various regions of the City and the Island of Ambon flooded village of Mamala and Morela, District Leihitu Ambon Island, Central Maluku, watching the ritual customary "Pukul Sapu (Hit Sweep)" which is held every 8 Shawwal after Idul Fitri.

Tens of thousands of Ambon as well as from Masohi, capital of Central Maluku district, and the Island Haruku, Saparua and Piru and Kairatu, Kabupaten Seram west (SBB), were present to witness the rituals annual.

Thousands of residents since the early days has mendatangani both villages are situated approximately 55 Kilometers north of Ambon Island, using hundreds of motorcycles and cars to witness the ritual of that culture.

Cultural customs at the broom in both villages who have blood relations from a single ancestor and performed since the 16th century was, sucking up the attention of a number of domestic tourists who coincidentally was visiting Ambon.

Some foreign tourists, mainly from Australia, Holland who happened to be vacationing in Ambon, were also seen attending to witness the attraction hitting with a stick, which is taken from the stem leaves Aren it.

Customary at the broom stick, we place at least 40 youth responsibility and bare chest is divided into two groups. Both groups were distinguishable color pants and headband that is colored red for one group and white for the other groups.

The previous day the youths who followed him was collected in a traditional house each to be ceremonial, and prayed for help and blessing of the Creator and the ancestors to bless those who will follow the ritual.

By holding the two tie rod sticks that are still raw, the two teams and then each other face to face, as she waited for the sound of the flute is blown by customary leaders.

When the flute sounds the group wearing red strike groups in white shorts, so did the opposite when the flute sound, turn the white pants who carried out the attack and beat the pants in red.

Action hit each other causing the horror and hysteria crowd was accompanied by a wasp tambourines and drums, where the effects add to the spirit of the players to hit each other.

The young man each using two to four cigarettes a stick bigger size doubled from a broom stick-ordinary, visible clobber body opponent with full force, in which areas of the blow is limited only from the chest down to the stomach.

Slashes lidi that of the central opponent sounds loud enough like a whip, where not infrequently the three rod sticks that are used have been destroyed in just two or three slashes.

The blow stick many times result in streaks of red elongate body of the players, and the most out of fresh blood and often stems lidi was also embedded in the skin and sores on their bodies.

But not the slightest visible or audible groans and cries of pain of the players due to slashes stick, but still does not die game.

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Bacteria Both Indonesia Reach International Award

An Indonesian researchers, Ingrid S Surono won international awards in Greece as a result of his research on bacteria.

Both bacteria Indonesia won awards at the Greek on the show "XXXIII International Congress on Microbial Ecology in Health & Disease", which won Ingrid S Surono of the Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization (SEAMEO) Tropical Medicine (TROPMED) Regional Center for Community Nutrition (RCCN) University of Indonesia.

"Ingrid S Surono was awarded third with a presentation entitled" Safety And Immunomodulatory Properties Of Enterococcus Faecium Indonesian IS-27 526 In Young Children ", said Executive Function Pensosbud, Jani Pharmacy in his statement as quoted by Antara, Saturday (9/18/2010).

Congress held on the cruise ship "Sapphire" was initiated by the Society for Microbial Ecology in Health and Disease (SOMED) by visiting the famous islands in Greece and Turkey, namely the island of Mykonos, Patmos, Kusadasi (Turkey), Rhodos, Crete and Santorini.

Conference to discuss the program and the topics that include ecology in the field of clinical microbiology, intestinal, dental, food, environmental and water was followed by the 160 participants who self over 124 people made oral presentations and 36 poster presentations.

The participants representing 28 countries, including Greece, the United States, France, England, Italy, Netherlands, Belgian, Finnish, Danish, Swedish, Russian, Iran, Pakistan, Japan, Egypt, Israel, India, Thailand and Indonesia.

The representative of Indonesia made an oral presentation on the first day of probiotic native Indonesia, which are good bacteria Enterococcus faecium IS-27 526, derived from whey, buffalo milk fermented traditional foods from West Sumatra.

These probiotics can enhance immune response in infants and children of Indonesia, and has been proven safe for consumption through experiments with mice and the mice, then continued in malnourished children under five in six clinic in Tangerang, Sukabumi and Cianjur.

Enterococcus faecium in Europe is a species of unusual probiotic bacteria are consumed by doubt its safety, but the IS-27 526 Enterococcus faecium strains indigenous to Indonesia has been proven safe.

At the closing ceremony, set of four people who give best oral presentations, the representatives from England, Italy, Indonesia and Iran.

SEAMEO TROPMED RCCN UI, is a research institute and administering S2 and S3 in the field of community nutrition under the Faculty of Medicine, the UI is expected to attract students interested in S2 and S3 in the field of community nutrition, and explore collaborative research opportunities.

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