U.N. Adviser Issues Dire Warning on Africa

Yahoo! News ^ | 1/9/06 | CHRIS TOMLINSON

[libertarianPA]

Promises of aid to Africa must be kept in 2006 or millions of people will die needlessly

How about promises to pressure for regime changes, or promises to stop raping little African girls being kept? Did we forget to mention those???

[libertarianPA]

Critics have said that aid to Africa has been largely wasted through widespread corruption and thatthere is no reason to believe new aid would not also be misused

I think this originally appeared in the pages of DUH! Magazine.

[Doogle]

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[Brilliant]

The best thing we can do for Africa is introduce democracy and capitalism.

[Bogey78O]

It seems like the only thing that can save Africa is a form of Neo-colonialism whereby western powers take over and create new coutries and gov't from scratch.

I don't know. But whatever they're doing is not working at all.

[river rat]

Life can be a bitch....when one allows themselves to be ruled by racist thugs.

If it were up to me ----- a LOT of Africans will die.
One of the surest signs of insanity -- is to repeat an action and expect a different result....

Semper Fi

[saganite]

"Significant, targeted investments (aimed) at raising food production in Africa, at addressing urgent health needs, at making investments in water management would allow an escape from what is now a seemingly endless cycle of disaster."

I notice there's no mention of the fact that Mugabe has destroyed one of the breadbaskets of Africa. Why would the UN believe the rest of the world should come to Africa's aid without demanding accountability from it's own governments?

[Mr. Jeeves]

Promises of aid to Africa must be kept in 2006 or millions of people will die needlessly

Five or six two-bit thugs need to be shot in the head in 2006, or millions of people will die needlessly.

[kublia khan]

"Significant, targeted investments (aimed) at raising food production in Africa, at addressing urgent health needs, at making investments in water management would allow an escape from what is now a seemingly endless cycle of disaster."

Correction: Would allow a different set of ruthless dictators to come to power. They would then have the clout to starve and persecute a different people group.

Most of Africa was better off under colonial rule, until your brave enough to admit it don't come around here with your hand out.

[purpleland]

Jeffrey Sachs, who is director of the U.N. Millennium Project and special adviser to Secretary-General Kofi Annan, called 2005 the year of promises,

***PROMISES!?!? Years of corruption!

after the leaders of the world's wealthiest countries promised to double aid to Africa. "2006 has to be the year of real action on the ground," Sachs, an economist who teaches at Harvard University,...

***REAL ACTION?!?!? Surreal crap! A pox on Annan and his U N house.

[Terabitten]

The best thing we can do for Africa is to quit giving them aid. There's enough natural resources in Africa that *we* should all be dependent on *them*, not the other way around.

[river rat]

"......"The United States, for all of Africa, is spending something like $4 billion this year"

This year! and last year, and the years before - we've been pouring money into the black hole of Africa.

Far too much.......in today's reality....

Feeding corruption and folks that want us dead.

Let the oil rich Muslims support their brothers....neighbors and former slave dealing partners.

Semper Fi

[brainstem223]

Having one of the major continents on the face of the earth and all its natural resources: vast mineral deposits, seacoasts, petroleum and agricultural lands at the disposal of the populations without colonial interference whatsoever, one wonders why this continent needs any aid at all from other continents, having far less natural wealth and sustinence at the disposal of their populations?

[TexasCajun]

I'd love someone to point out just one Black-American Businessperson or Black-American Athlete that has invested anything but lip-service in Africa!

[Froufrou]

Tell me: what will happen when we pull the plug on all of it? Because if we stop helping Africa we have to stop helping everyone else.

What then?

[stylin19a]

Again ? This is the 60th year in a row of this U.N. "dire" warnings on Africa.

[Safetgiver]

The best thing we can do for Africa is introduce democracy and capitalism....Nice sentiment, but it'll never happen for ten generations. Tribalism is the root of most of Africa's ills.

[Safetgiver]

Who helped them in the 1600's, 1500's, or even the 1700's? No longer our problem. They either step up to the plate and help themselves or return to caves.

[garyhope]

They could also keep their pants on and just say no to endless reproduction of children to die in poverty, disease and endless tribal warfare and slaughter.

[Froufrou]

You suggest taking away the poor's favorite form of entertainment? [/sarc]