Kofi Annan's Crony Advocates Criminal Behaviour
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Note that the AU - the Union of Despots / Thieves / Pariahs / Deadbeats /
Dictators have failed to try (except once in Nigeria) to get back the loot
of African Despots stashed in Swiss accounts. If they did, most of their
debts could be repaid. Some of the late Mobutu Sese Seko's enormous loot is
still stashed in South Africa.
Mbeki's NEPAD "Vision / Plan" is just another updated "Super Nigerian"
styled scam. He wants billions of US$ as an unaccountable "aid" handout for
Africa. He claims that the West "owes" this to Africa to get its 'Dignity
Back'!
Meanwhile he kicks the West in the teeth at every opportunity whilst
simultaneously shoving out his begging basket with both grasping hands. He
uses South African resources and assets to prop up his best friend Mugabe
who he claims is a master of good governance, and that he was democratically
elected!
It is time that the West stopped shoveling their taxpayer's money into the
externalized accounts of these muttonheads. Africa should be left to wallow
in their homemade swamps until the understand how to join the global
community after getting off their comfortable tails.
The African Leaders should spend more time doing to their assorted wives and
mistresses that what they are doing to their countries.
Walter
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'Africa must not pay its debt'
06/07/2004 07:15 - News24 (SA)
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia -
A top economic adviser to UN secretary-general Kofi Annan told African
countries on Monday to refuse to pay their huge debts if rich countries did
not cancel them.
American economist Jeffrey Sachs made the comment to a conference on hunger
on the eve of a summit of the heads of state of the African Union (AU),
which estimates sub-Saharan Africa has foreign debts of $201bn.
"The time has come to end this charade. The debts are unaffordable," said
Sachs, director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University and special
adviser to Annan on global anti-poverty targets.
"If they won't cancel the debts I would suggest obstruction. You do it
yourselves."
The 53-member African Union, which is to discuss taking a more prominent
role in conflict resolution on the continent, announced on Monday that it
will send a 300-strong armed protection force as soon as possible into
Sudan's Darfur province.
Sam Ibok, director of the AU's peace and security division, said the troops'
role will be to protect refugees in Sudan and in neighboring Chad, where
many have fled from a campaign of terror by Arab militiamen - a situation
the United Nations describes as the world's worst humanitarian crisis.
The force will also protect military observers currently being sent to
Darfur, he said.
The number is significant increase from the 150 unarmed AU monitors that
were expected to go to Darfur as part of an April cease-fire agreement in
Sudan. A few AU monitors already are there.
The leaders of Ethiopia, Mauritius, Sudan, Uganda, Mozambique, Mali and
Burkina Faso attended Monday's hunger conference.
Sachs called on the developed world to double aid to Africa to $120bn a
year, and meet commitments they made in 1970 to spend at least 0.7% of their
gross domestic product on grants and loans.
The United States and other rich nations spend billions of dollars on arms
but only a minute fraction of that on fighting poverty, he said.
Budget
In his remarks to the conference, Annan warned that hunger was becoming
worse for the most vulnerable segment of Africa's population.
"Africa is the only continent where child malnutrition is getting worse
rather than better," said the UN secretary-general.
"Tragically, the past decade has seen very little progress."
Annan said Africa needs a "green revolution" to meet a 2015 target to end
hunger.
Jacques Diouf, director-general of the U.N. Food and Agriculture
Organisation, said progress in ending hunger was "painfully slow" and
predicted it will take more than a century to achieve it in Africa.
On Tuesday, the chairperson of the AU's commission will unveil a three-year,
$1.7bn plan to beef up the organisation.
At present the African Union has an annual budget of $43m, but contributions
from its 53 members add up to only $13m, leaving the organisation with a
$30m deficit, according to AU officials who did not want to be identified.
The organisation spends only $1.6m resolving conflicts on the continent,
said Ibok.
Edited by Mahap Msiza
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