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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Arwa: [QB] Horemheb, If China was capable of bringing 400mio. of its citizens out of poverty in 20 years--whitout help from rich countries, then tell why can't African countries do the same? What is it that holds back? Sure, colonialism is over, then tell me why the westerner forces, the same people we kicked out, keep returning- but now they call them self " peacekeepers, NGOs" [QUOTE][i][b]What are the NGOs doing? In the days of old-fashioned colonialism, the metropolitan powers sent their officials to live in Africa and directly run the colonies. Today they do so indirectly through NGOs. This month, we take an indepth look at the activities of the thousands of foreign NGOs and their local spinoffs who now hold the continent in thrall, and ask whether they are Africa's new colonisers. This analysis is by Rotimi Sankore. At the beginning of last month, the Nigerian and international media were full of news that Nigeria had been granted debt relief to the tune of $31bn by the Paris Club of “rich Western nations”. Nigerian government officials were ecstatic. Towards the end of the news reports, it was mentioned matter-of-factly that a millennium development committee had been set up which will be chaired by Nigeria’s president, Olusegun Obasanjo, “to monitor what happens to the debt relief”. The committee would include representatives of Oxfam and ActionAid, two international development charities or NGOs. The committee, inaugurated on the eve of the G8 Summit in Gleneagles, is also monitoring the UN Millennium Development Goals. Anyone remotely familiar with the nature of executive presidencies, and in particular Obasanjo’s presidency, will know that monitoring by the president means nothing will happen to the money without his and the committee’s approval. In effect, two international development charities will be helping “monitor” and implement budgetary policy to the tune of $31bn in Africa’s most populous country of an estimated 130 million people – without an electoral or democratic mandate to do so. [/b][/i] [/QUOTE] [QUOTE][i][b]The scramble for African oil Daniel Volman, director of the African Security Research Project in Washington DC, on how oil is leading to another scramble for Africa, this time not by the usual suspects who met in Berlin in 1884-86, but by the oil guzzlers from across the Atlantic. “Whether all this will lead to something greater – and potentially far more perilous – cannot be foreseen at this point, but it is certainly something that bears close watching, given the dangers this could pose for Africa and its people,” he warns. After decades of Cold War, when Africa was simply viewed as a convenient pawn on the global chessboard, and a further decade of benign neglect in the 1990s, the African continent has now become a vital arena of strategic and geopolitical competition for not only the US, but also for China, India, and other new emerging powers. The main reason for this is quite simple: Africa is the final frontier as far as the world’s supplies of energy (both oil and natural gas) are concerned. World oil production is only just meeting demand and old fields are being drained faster than new production can be brought on line. Supplies will be tight for the foreseeable future, so any new source of supply is significant. Most importers are also trying to reduce their dependence on Middle Eastern oil. In the next 10 to 15 years, most of the new oil entering the world market will come from African fields because it is only in Africa – and to a lesser extent in the volatile Central Asia region – that substantial new fields have been found and brought into production. Therefore, as in the Middle East and the Caspian Sea region before it, Africa is now a target for military intervention by the US, France, China and other powers competing to gain control over energy supplies. The most public expressions of this linkage have come from American officials. [/b][/i] [/QUOTE] http://www.africasia.co.uk/newafrican/na.php?ID=966&back_month=59 [/QB][/QUOTE]
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