Of Luigi Guelpa
From the endemic corruption of regimes to denied democracy. From the massacres of child soldiers to the blood diamond business
The Dark Continent is outraged and demands an apology from the occupant of the White House, but it is equally true that Mother Africa has given birth to some horrors that are impossible to erase.
Abominations for which, to date, he never issued an official apology, often shifting the blame onto the West.
CORRUPTION
Of the 20 Countries in the world with the highest perception of corruption, 9 they are African. In descending order, after Somalia comes Sudan, Sud Sudan, Angola, Libya, Guinea Bissau, Eritrea, Zimbabwe and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The possibility of reporting complaints against public officials is very limited, while the intimidation against citizens who dare to speak is high. Although the African Union has made the fight against corruption and impunity a priority, many countries remain reticent to take concrete measures to achieve this goal.
THE LOOTING OF AID
He is held by an African, Zambian economist Dambisa Moyo, author of the best-seller «When charity kills»: in recent years more than a trillion dollars have been donated to Africa, but this aid has not improved conditions on the continent. The fault lies precisely with aid which forces Africa into a perpetual economic adolescence, making it dependent as if on a drug and which contribute to spreading the plagues of corruption and embezzlement, thanks to massive injections of credit into the veins of countries without solid and transparent governance.
CHILD SOLDIERS
It is a plague that seems impossible to eradicate. I jihadist in Boko Haram, active in Nigeria, First, Niger and Cameroon, they obliged in 2017 at least 135 children to turn into suicide bombers, a number five times higher than 2016. In the Central African Republic, children were raped, killed, forcibly recruited as soldiers. In the Democratic Republic of Congo, over 850 thousand children had to leave their homes and 400 schools have been the target of deliberate attacks. In Somalia, circa 1800 minors were forced to fight in the first ten months of 2017, in South Sudan it happened from 2013 to more than 19 thousand children.
BLOOD DIAMONDS
Africa has boasted the largest production of industrial diamonds in the world since 1870. The largest extractors are the Democratic Republic of Congo (which is the world's leading producer) and South Africa, but there are also diamond mines in Angola, Sierra Leone and Liberia. For Africans, but, resources are the cause of wars, conflicts and revolts. The research and exploitation of areas of possible diamond deposits produces (with a rough estimate) approximately one million deaths due to malnutrition, drought, degradation and obviously wars every year.
DICTATORS FOR LIFE
First the resignation of Eduardo dos Santos, leading Angola for 38 years, then the forced one of Robert Mugabe, father-master of Zimbabwe for 37 years. A sprout of democracy seemed to have sprung up. Unfortunately this is not the case, almost half of African states are led by presidents who have governed autocratically for more than two years, three decades. To these are added those who, electoral mandate ended, they decided to remain on the deck of the ship without calling new consultations, come Kabila nell’ex Zaire. There are those, Then, he made it a dynastic issue. From Cameroon to Equatorial Guinea, from Chad to Congo, passing through Gabon, Uganda and Rwanda up to southern Africa, dove, Mugabe ousted, yet another president has taken over, scammer, Emmerson Mnangagwa, supported by China.
Source: http://www.ilgiornale.it/news/politica/nessuno-parla-delle-scuse-che-lafrica-dovrebbe-mondo-1482785.html
