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Strategies & Market Trends : Africa and its Issues- Why Have We Ignored Africa? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (679)	12/27/2006 10:05:29 PM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1267

They might be small in number (at least in major positions of influence in the west) but there are plenty that ignore, justify and/or support lesser crimes and lesser stupidities. Then their importance to western policy to Africa is somewhere between microscopic and irrelevant. How can they be a key focus for the problem? They aren't. They are an easy straw man to knock down in a letter to the editor. Then assert that all the imperfect things in Africa should be perfect as a general principle, and you have set the moral stage for.... ...more moralizing. Africa laughs that crap off decade after decade. It's a western parlor room indulgence until you actually construct schemes to get Africans to buy into it. But that would involve those messy details that probably aren't covered at law school. How is it that African development became a subject of expertise for a law professor anyway?

To: TimF who wrote (679)	12/28/2006 10:28:59 AM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1267

Morriss wrote The role of the west in implementing these solutions is equally clear: cut tariffs and other barriers to trade with Africa and eliminate official toleration (including foreign aid, official recognition, arms sales, etc.) of murderous regimes like Sudan's and kleptocratic ones like Zimbabwe’s. ------------------------------------- I don't know about Mugabe but Sudan does have significant supporters in the world ensuring official toleration of the regime and its genocidal policies - though they aren't westerners: The government of Russia is one significant supporter: Russia and Sudan both claim that the Russian sale of MiG-29s (image) has nothing to do with Khartoum's air support of the Janjaweed militias in Darfur. ...... But Leslie Lefkow, of Human Rights Watch, wrote a report back in April which detailed the involvment of MiGs in Sudan: ruphus.com Plus the government of China: China, Russia bar Sudan sanctions Russia and China say they will oppose UN sanctions against four Sudanese officials accused of involvement in continuing violence in Darfur. .... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4917970.stm CHINA’S INVOLVEMENT IN SUDAN: ARMS AND OIL hrw.org Map showing China National Petroleum Corp. concession area in southern Darfur: hrw.org Plus the Arab League: Arab League backs Sudan on Darfur The UN says Darfur is the world's worst humanitarian crisis The Arab League has rejected any sanctions or international military intervention as a response to the crisis in Sudan's Darfur region. ....http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3545818.stm --------------------------- One point of progress- the US Congress voted to end the cotton subsidy last year: Congress Ends Cotton Subsidy outsidethebeltway.com