06 March, 2009
'Stop giving aid to Africa. It's just not working'
NRC Handelblad, Dick Wittenberg
Development aid does more harm than good in Africa, says Zambian economist and author Dambisa Moyo, so we should stop it. She has the ear of at least one African president, Paul Kagame of Rwanda. 'Why should Bono be the one to determine economic policy in Africa?
Gradually her conviction grew stronger: Africa will never get on its feet unless it makes a clean break with the system of development aid. It is aid itself that is keeping Africa poor.
Development aid does more harm than good in Africa, says Zambian economist and author Dambisa Moyo, so we should stop it. She has the ear of at least one African president, Paul Kagame of Rwanda. 'Why should Bono be the one to determine economic policy in Africa?
Gradually her conviction grew stronger: Africa will never get on its feet unless it makes a clean break with the system of development aid. It is aid itself that is keeping Africa poor.
SA women among most financially independent
Times, South Africa, Sashni Pather
Majority of local women are financially independent, South African women are among the most financially independent in the world.
Majority of local women are financially independent, South African women are among the most financially independent in the world.
Review of Joseph Hanlon and Teresa Smart’s Do Bicycles Equal Development in Mozambique?
Pambazuka, Lucy Corkin
While much of the blame for Mozambique’s underdevelopment is left at donors’ doors, the country’s political elite are not portrayed as being blameless. They have indeed profited and continue to do so. What is emphasised however is the donors’ complicity in creating and maintaining such structural inequalities so long as they serve theirs and these elites’ respective agendas.
While much of the blame for Mozambique’s underdevelopment is left at donors’ doors, the country’s political elite are not portrayed as being blameless. They have indeed profited and continue to do so. What is emphasised however is the donors’ complicity in creating and maintaining such structural inequalities so long as they serve theirs and these elites’ respective agendas.
Pambazuka News 422: Kenya: The bomb waiting to go off ... again
Highlights from this issue
FEATURES:
- Kenyan human rights defenders assassinated
- L Muthoni Wanyeki writes that land in Kenya is a ticking time bomb waitiing to explode again
COMMENTS & ANALYSIS
- Mau Mau Reparations Campaign - the continuing resistance
- UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial killings in Kenya
- Maina Kiai wants an end to impunity
- Father Gabriel Dolan says corruption is a crime against humanity
PAN AFRICAN POSTCARD
- Tajudeen reflects on why mothers should not die giving life
BOOKS & ARTS: On bicycles and development
AFRICAN WRITERS CORNER
- Interview with Oliver Mtukudzi
FEATURES:
- Kenyan human rights defenders assassinated
- L Muthoni Wanyeki writes that land in Kenya is a ticking time bomb waitiing to explode again
COMMENTS & ANALYSIS
- Mau Mau Reparations Campaign - the continuing resistance
- UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial killings in Kenya
- Maina Kiai wants an end to impunity
- Father Gabriel Dolan says corruption is a crime against humanity
PAN AFRICAN POSTCARD
- Tajudeen reflects on why mothers should not die giving life
BOOKS & ARTS: On bicycles and development
AFRICAN WRITERS CORNER
- Interview with Oliver Mtukudzi
Zimbabwe's farms - Whose land?
Economist
Despite a recent power-sharing deal, white-owned farms are still being taken
Despite a recent power-sharing deal, white-owned farms are still being taken
Failed states and failed policies - How to stop the drug wars
Economist
Prohibition has failed; legalisation is the least bad solution
Prohibition has failed; legalisation is the least bad solution
Congo and Rwanda A jungle alliance that may just endure
Economist
Two rival countries have joined forces to hammer the militias that have devastated eastern Congo for so long
Two rival countries have joined forces to hammer the militias that have devastated eastern Congo for so long
Let's wipe out toilet paper
Guardian, Christian Wolmar
Toilet paper is a serious issue.
Using tissue after you've been to the loo is bad for the planet. Washing is the greener option – and it's more hygienic too
Toilet paper is a serious issue.
Using tissue after you've been to the loo is bad for the planet. Washing is the greener option – and it's more hygienic too
Guinea-Bissau : 'You can't just kill a president like a dog'
Mail & Guardian
"What are we supposed to do, cry? Demand justice?". "The powerful people at the top have been fighting each other for decades. They'll keep fighting. It's really nothing new."
The International Crisis Group summed up the dire state of affairs in its latest report, titled Guinea-Bissau: In Need of a State.
"It's about power. They just wanted him out of the way," he said.
"What are we supposed to do, cry? Demand justice?". "The powerful people at the top have been fighting each other for decades. They'll keep fighting. It's really nothing new."
The International Crisis Group summed up the dire state of affairs in its latest report, titled Guinea-Bissau: In Need of a State.
"It's about power. They just wanted him out of the way," he said.
"Estamos Numa Boa"
ContraPeso 3.0
O Governo do Brasil concedeu 50 Bolsas de Estudo ao Governo Moçambicano.
O Governo do Brasil concedeu 50 Bolsas de Estudo ao Governo Moçambicano.
Sickening obsession
Business Day, Zukolwami Magoda
I am amazed at your paper’s obsession with former president Thabo Mbeki.
I am amazed at your paper’s obsession with former president Thabo Mbeki.
Africa suspicious of court’s motives in taking on Bashir
Business Day, Paul Moorcraft
Locking up President Omar al-Bashir (or Robert Mugabe) might send a shiver of delight down the spines of western liberal intellectuals. Both presidents are nasty despots. But what will be the effect in Africa?
Internationally, those Africans supporting Bashir over the ICC are not necessarily doing so because they admire him — many dislike him. They do so because Sudan is the lightning rod of a growing African impatience with diktats from the west and their old colonial masters in Europe.
The ICC has pursued cases only in Africa. The court has decided not to investigate any western involvement or complicity in alleged war crimes, crimes against humanity or genocide, whether in Iraq, Afghanistan, or Gaza. It has chosen not to criminalise waging “aggressive” war, a charge at the heart of the Nuremberg war-crimes trials, and which more than one legal authority has compared with the 2003 Anglo-American invasion of Iraq.
The ICC’s timing has never been good.
The ICC, for all its good intentions, may be worsening Africa’s woes, not least because it has no police or military to enforce its will.
Locking up President Omar al-Bashir (or Robert Mugabe) might send a shiver of delight down the spines of western liberal intellectuals. Both presidents are nasty despots. But what will be the effect in Africa?
Internationally, those Africans supporting Bashir over the ICC are not necessarily doing so because they admire him — many dislike him. They do so because Sudan is the lightning rod of a growing African impatience with diktats from the west and their old colonial masters in Europe.
The ICC has pursued cases only in Africa. The court has decided not to investigate any western involvement or complicity in alleged war crimes, crimes against humanity or genocide, whether in Iraq, Afghanistan, or Gaza. It has chosen not to criminalise waging “aggressive” war, a charge at the heart of the Nuremberg war-crimes trials, and which more than one legal authority has compared with the 2003 Anglo-American invasion of Iraq.
The ICC’s timing has never been good.
The ICC, for all its good intentions, may be worsening Africa’s woes, not least because it has no police or military to enforce its will.
The Lessons from History From Amilcar Cabral
Foroyaa Online, Editorial : Blood Stains On The Door Steps Of Governance In Guinea Bissau
It is therefore clear that the personalization of governance issues could lead to the use of state machinery to solve private conflicts and personal animosities. Governance however is a public matter.
Amilcar Cabral said "Some of you who have travelled out of our land have seen the respect our party inspires, the consideration our party receives, and how much hope our party has given to other folks in the world, and in Africa. But comrades often forget this deep in the bush, they forget completely their responsibility as leaders. Some have tried to make the utmost use of the authority the party gave them so as to satisfy their own stomachs, their vices, their conveniences. This must stop. And it is you who must stop this at all level".
"In this very room, there are comrades who worked together and were not able to get on with each other. They should he ashamed. And why? Because they were thinking of their belly, their ambitions, instead of serving the interests of the party? This is the mentality of petty ambitions of caprice. Instead of devoting their attention to the struggle, to party work, they look to see who has more, who has less, petty squabbles shabby intrigues. This cannot go on. The time has come to stop this".
The advice meant for PAIGC could also be applied to Frelimo and Renamo (BH)
It is therefore clear that the personalization of governance issues could lead to the use of state machinery to solve private conflicts and personal animosities. Governance however is a public matter.
Amilcar Cabral said "Some of you who have travelled out of our land have seen the respect our party inspires, the consideration our party receives, and how much hope our party has given to other folks in the world, and in Africa. But comrades often forget this deep in the bush, they forget completely their responsibility as leaders. Some have tried to make the utmost use of the authority the party gave them so as to satisfy their own stomachs, their vices, their conveniences. This must stop. And it is you who must stop this at all level".
"In this very room, there are comrades who worked together and were not able to get on with each other. They should he ashamed. And why? Because they were thinking of their belly, their ambitions, instead of serving the interests of the party? This is the mentality of petty ambitions of caprice. Instead of devoting their attention to the struggle, to party work, they look to see who has more, who has less, petty squabbles shabby intrigues. This cannot go on. The time has come to stop this".
The advice meant for PAIGC could also be applied to Frelimo and Renamo (BH)
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