Africans are tired with the British cash!
But, will the British do so because they are the ones who benefit from their foreign aid to Africa through their budget support labelled as for poverty reduction while it finance wars in the African Great Lakes region, help to expand their English language and to have access to jobs in Africa?
African economist calls for less African aid.
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From PRI's The World 06 April, 2009 04:48:00
Zambian economist Dambisa Moyo argues that stopping most aid to Africa would spur economic growth.
Even in the middle of this financial crisis, President Obama and other world leaders still find money in their budgets for foreign aid. In fact, some would argue it’s vital to continue giving financial aid to poor countries at a time such as this. Dambisa Moyo goes the other way. She’s an economist from Zambia, in southern Africa. And in her book “Dead Aid”, she makes the case for stopping all aid to Africa, except for humanitarian and emergency relief. Anchor Katy Clark of "The World" spoke with Dambisa Moyo.Moyo believes stopping the aid would actually spur economic growth on the continent.
She says as it is right now, foreign aid only exacerbates Africa’s problems. "There is a consistent flow of evidence over the past 60 years that aid has not gone to support productive investments, and rather it’s gone to support despotic and tyrannical leaders across the continent. But corruption’s just one of the problems. I think the most fundamental problem is that aid disenfranchises Africans, and in that sense it means governments are not accountable to Africans. They spend their time courting international donors who basically pay their livelihoods."And it’s not just corrupt leaders.
Moyo talked about a mosquito net maker in Africa who is put out of business when some Hollywood star-type rallies the masses to send 1,000 mosquito nets to a malaria-infected part of Africa. For Moyo there are better alternatives. In the book she talks about the need for government to focus on trade, and not with the traditional partners of Europe and the United States, but with emerging economies like China."Places like China with 1.3 billion people and 7 percent arable land are desperate to feed their populations, and Africa provides the support for those type of goods. I also talk about foreign direct investment. African government needs to do a lot to actually bring in and attract foreign investors.
I also talk about the bond market. Yes, we are undergoing very great challenges in the current bond system in the United States and Europe, but I think it’s going to be important for African governments to look to alternative non-traditional markets such as China and the Middle East where they still have a lot of pockets of money."One alternative theory out there is that aid works -- it’s just that rich countries haven’t given enough of it yet.
Moyo says that aid has worked in times when it was short, sharp, and finite."There is not a single country on earth that has achieved economic development and eradicated poverty while relying on aid to the degree that African countries rely on aid. And beyond that, I would say that why are we trying to push a product that not only has it failed, but we actually know the things that work.
It seems to me why should we try to do something different from what China has done or what India has done or what South Africa has done? Why is there a different prescription for Africa? My fundamental perspective is that the whole aid industry is built on a sense of pity for Africa."Moyo believes injecting capital into Africa for infrastructure development can work now despite the current state of financial markets.
"I think now is a great opportunity for innovation. I think there are places like the Middle East, as I’ve said, not only would they be interested in doing business in Africa even in these markets, they are doing business in Africa even in these markets. Africa is expected to grow at 3 percent this year. This is IMF forecast. The rest of the world is maybe in totality at 0.5, many countries growing in a negative GDP growth. So Africa has a little good story to sell. You know 3 percent growth rates in this environment? A lot of people will sit up and listen to that."
Dambisa Moyo grew up in Zambia. She’s worked for Goldman-Sachs and The World Bank. And her book is called “Dead Aid: Why Aid is Not Working and How There’s A Better Way for Africa.”
Listen to Part 2 of PRI's presentation of Dambisa Moyo's debate on aid to Africa.
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Dictators like Kagame who have changed their national constitutions to remain indefinitely on power should not be involved in UN high level and global activities including chairing UN meetings
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Thousands of Hutu murdered by Kagame inside Rwanda, e.g. Kibeho massacres
Kagame killed 200,000 Hutus from all regions of the country, the elderly and children who were left by their relatives, the disabled were burned alive. Other thousands of people were killed in several camps of displaced persons including Kibeho camp. All these war crimes remain unpunished.The British news reporters were accompanying Kagame’s fighters on day-by-day basis and witnessed these massacres, but they never reported on this.
25,000 Hutu bodies floated down River Akagera into Lake Victoria in Uganda.
The British irrational, extremist, partisan,biased, one-sided media and politicians have disregarded Kagame war crimes e.g. the Kibeho camp massacres, massacres of innocents Hutu refugees in DR. Congo. The British media have been supporting Kagame since he invaded Rwanda by organising the propaganda against the French over the Rwandan genocide, suppressing the truth about the genocide and promoting the impunity of Kagame and his cronies in the African Great Lakes Region. For the British, Rwanda does not need democracy, Rwanda is the African Israel; and Kagame and his guerilla fighters are heroes.The extremist British news reporters including Fergal Keane, Chris Simpson, Chris McGreal, Mark Doyle, etc. continue to hate the Hutus communities and to polarise the Rwandan society.
Kagame political ambitions triggered the genocide.
Kagame’s guerrilla war was aimed at accessing to power at any cost. He rejected all attempts and advice that could stop his military adventures including the cease-fire, political negotiations and cohabitation, and UN peacekeeping interventions. He ignored all warnings that could have helped him to manage the war without tragic consequences. Either you supported Kagame’ s wars and you are now his friend, or you were against his wars and you are his enemy. Therefore, Kagame as the Rwandan strong man now, you have to apologise to him for having been against his war and condemned his war crimes, or accept to be labelled as having been involved in the genocide. All key Kagame’s fighters who committed war crimes and crimes against humanity are the ones who hold key positions in Rwandan army and government for the last 15 years. They continue to be supported and advised by the British including Tony Blair, Andrew Mitchell MP, and the British army senior officials.
Aid that kills: The British Budget Support financed Museveni and Kagame’s wars in Rwanda and DRC.
Genocide propaganda and fabrications are used by the so-called British scholars, news reporters and investigative journalists to promote their CVs and to get income out of the genocide through the selling of their books, providing testimonies against the French, access to consultancy contracts from the UN and Kagame, and participation in conferences and lectures in Rwanda, UK and internationally about genocide. Genocide propaganda has become a lucrative business for Kagame and the British. Anyone who condemned or did not support Kagame’s war is now in jail in Rwanda under the gacaca courts system suuported by British tax payer's money, or his/she is on arrest warrant if he/she managed to flee the Kagame’s regime. Others have fled the country and are still fleeing now. Many others Rwandans are being persecuted in their own country. Kagame is waiting indefinitely for the apologies from other players who warn him or who wanted to help to ensure that political negotiations take place between Kagame and the former government he was fighting against. Britain continues to supply foreign aid to Kagame and his cronies with media reports highlighting economic successes of Rwanda. Such reports are flawed and are aimed at misleading the British public to justify the use of British taxpayers’ money. Kagame and his cronies continue to milk British taxpayers’ money under the British budget support. This started from 1986 through the British budget support to Uganda until now.
Dictator Kagame: No remorse for his unwise actions and ambitions that led to the Rwandan genocide.
No apologies yet to the Rwandan people. The assassination of President Juvenal Habyarimana by Kagame was the only gateway for Kagame to access power in Rwanda. The British media, politicians, and the so-called British scholars took the role of obstructing the search for the truth and justice; and of denying this assassination on behalf of General Kagame. General Paul Kagame has been obliging the whole world to apologise for his mistakes and war crimes. The UK’s way to apologise has been pumping massive aid into Rwanda's crony government and parliement; and supporting Kagame though media campaigns.
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Kagame receives the British massive aid through the budget support, British excessive consultancy, sector wide programmes, the Tutsi-dominated parliament, British and Tutsi-owned NGOs; for political, economic and English language expansion to Rwanda. The British aid to Rwanda is not for all Rwandans. It is for Kagame himself and his Tutsi cronies.
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