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Updated on 8th September 2011
Opened letter to His Excellency Mr. Jean Ping, Chairperson of the Commission of the African Union
Dear Mr. President;
I present this letter to express, as an African, concern for the future of Africa - my indignation at your policy within the Commission of the African Union. This indignation refers to your management of two major crises in recent months which your Commission has had to face: the first, the crisis in Ivory Coast; and the second, the crisis in Libya that has resulted in mass massacre, the dehumanization of African people, violent repressions, grave violations of human rights and the blatant humiliation of an African head of State and his wife, personalities with whom you had strong relationships.
I would like, before carrying my remarks on your policy, to return to my African dream - my dream for Africa, my dream of being proud to be black as I am myself and happy to live and suffer on my continent; this dream, as a consequence of your crisis management as mentioned above, I see broken.
The launch of the creation of the African Union in Sirte on September 9, 1999 was, for me, the beginning of the African dream. I thought, finally, Africa will be free from the yoke of colonialism and from the unimaginable humiliation she has been subjected to by the imperialist powers. It was for me also the dream of the end of the African folklore which gave rise to the OAU meetings hosted by the African administrators of France in Africa. I thought with my friends of the movements of African youth to a decolonized organization, strong and appropriate to achieve the union between the peoples of the north, south, east and west of Africa for a real opening of the continent to the world - not by the pitiable images of poverty, famine and the infernal disease but by her economic weight and her good management of her natural resources - to fulfill the dream of our generation, those who have gone before us and those to come, and to make those like us feel satisfied, happy, proud to belong to Africa, like our brothers and sisters in Europe, Canada, the Americas and Asia.
I dreamed to finally see an end to the intended death of my brothers and sisters who try a yearlong adventure of crossing the Mediterranean Sea for a better life in Europe and are given to the sharks for feeding.
I did not remain only at this stage - I also worked and fought materially for the African renaissance. One of my efforts was the African Youth Charter; with my friends from the African youth, we laid the foundation in Bamako, Mali in 2005. This magnum opus work of the African youth today languishes within the halls of African administrations without real effect, except perhaps as a document in their libraries.
To be honest, your Excellency, since your arrival at the head of the African Union, all my friends - fighters for a united Africa - lost the enthusiasm they were carrying with your predecessor. I resisted, I stayed on the battle lines, hoping that you would meet our expectations with your spirit of a great diplomat, a visionary, a man slow to action but to great effect. Today, I am joining the camp of my friends who have left the boat at the same time with President Alpha Omar Konare. The crisis in Ivory Coast and then in Libya clearly shows that your agenda, and that of Africa, are in opposition.
Mr. President;
Prove to Africa that you have good intentions, and that they are real. Tell us that the United States of Africa is on the agenda for tomorrow. Tell us that we are ready for a single African currency, for an African army, a real African Parliament, for a unique identity in Africa, the movement of people and goods from north to south from east to west. Give us your perspective. Tell us why our brothers and sisters died in Ivory Coast; tell us what happened to President Laurent Gbagbo and his wife. Talk to the people of Africa, tell them their future, let them dream, tell them your projection at the end of your term, and explain why all these people died in Ivory Coast and Libya, and what you did for them. I have huge concerns - questions that assail me - and I want you to give me satisfaction and, thereby, satisfaction to all African youth.
Mr. President;
You are back from Paris, where you attended the summit of the Contact Group on Libya with President Sarkozy and others who are bombing Libya…that means, who are bombing Africa. You declared yourself satisfied with the results of the meeting and, in the end, you stated your position through your press release from the Peace and Security Council of the African Union. You now wish to welcome, in Addis Ababa, members of the TNC, the Libyan National Transition Council, sitting next to African presidents and next to worthy sons of Africa like Robert Mugabe. You are very satisfied!
The Commission of the African Union is really in a decline. She does not even know what she really wants. She does not even have goals on the horizon. She seems to be a reflection of the OAU.
Moreover, the President of the African Union has apparently completely forgotten that he was opposed to going to Paris in March 2011 at the first Paris meeting, which laid the foundation for the destruction of the sovereign Libya.
A few days after the rain of bombs that fell on her from 19 to 22 March 2011, destroying the entire arsenal of defence of Libya and killing hundreds of innocent civilians, the ad hoc high-level committee of the African Union - which is, in part, Mr. Jean Ping, Chairperson of the African Union - was forbidden to fly over Libyan airspace by the Contact Group on Libya led by France to meet their counterparts Gaddafi to discuss the implementation of the African Union road map. Africans, our Heads of State in office, are forbidden to fly over their airspace… on their continent!
A few weeks later, the ad hoc committee was “authorized” - though time-limited - by this Contact Group on Libya to visit Libya and present the roadmap to both parties in conflict. Mr. President, remember your press release: you expressed your confidence in the position of Libya and Gaddafi - your friend! - to respect the roadmap of the AU and, as he agreed to remove himself from any discussion regarding the future of Libya and for those people in Benghazi, you expressed your regret.
Indeed, the regret was diplomatic language, because in fact, you did not express your anger about how you were bullied at the airport in Benghazi, where the renegades of TNC treated you like “niggers” - if you had remained on their soil, they would battle with you as they did at the beginning of their so-called revolution in the streets, lynching Blacks like you. Through images of the mainstream television channels, we witnessed the lynching of your vehicle by the racist, Islamophobic, criminals of Benghazi, which means, the TNC.
You were opposed since February 2011 - with your Commission - to any foreign interference in Libya. You repeatedly hammered the point that Libya was on African soil and that it was up to the AU to resolve the Libyan crisis. The meetings in Addis Ababa on March 10, 2011, and again in Malabo on June 30, 2011, confirmed the constant positions taken by the AU and all the African Heads of State.
Were you, once, heard?
The supra-African organization was humiliated by the small Arab League, and it is the Arab League’s position that has been followed - Libya was moved from a “No Fly Zone” to battlefield and ruin and, today, Libya is headed towards a long-lasting war whose consequences can only expand in the months and years to come for Africa, as the whole cycle of colonization resumes. What would you say, at the end of your mandate, as result of your term of office, lies ahead for African Union? That you were the one who freed Libya? Likewise, Ivory Coast, “freed” from the “bloody dictators” as painted by the genociders of our continent such as France, Britain, Germany, Italy and the United States of America (which till now have not been able to apologize for the millions of our brothers and sisters, our grandparents and their ancestors decimated and forced into exile by them)?
Your actual desire to engage in a process of recognition of the TNC within the UA by member states of the African Union is a denial of justice for the Libyan, foreign and African victims murdered on Libyan soil in an international war launched by the imperialist countries that advances their interests in, and against, Africa - a war that you could have avoided by valuing Africa and your organization, by requiring from those member states of the AU who serve as non-permanent members to the Security Council to refrain from voting against an African country, regardless of the subject matter, as the permanent countries to the SC do amongst themselves.
Do you want to ignore that these people from the TNC have ruined the lives of thousands of African children and women who were living in peace in Libya for more than three decades… who had found for themselves a real country - Libya - and who now find themselves without a country and without direction?
Do you want to ignore that these Libyan renegades and clowns displayed by Mr. Sarkozy have committed genocide against our Libyan brothers and sisters - Libyan and sub-Saharan blacks whom you met between these crises, during your previous visits to Libya, in Bab el Aziziyah the home of the Libyan leader - while calling them Gaddafi mercenaries and lynching them?
Do you want to ignore that you have a duty, as the head of the African Union, to hold them accountable for their crimes, and to begin by launching an investigation into the missing Libyans and foreigners?
Have you forgotten Gaddafi as a close friend to you, as you were consulting him at every turn on African issues? Have you forgotten all his support to your candidateship as head of the AU? Don’t you have any sense of human feeling to stab him in the back, as has also been done by another friend of his, a President of an AU State?
Where has the report of the joint Fact Finding Commission African Union and African Parliament, that I personally received in my office in Tripoli, gone?
Upon which basis could the AU rely to receive the members of TNC in Addis Ababa? Were they elected by the people of Libya? Is TNC an emanation from the Libyan people? And the roadmap of the African Union - where is it?
Mr. President, what story do you want to leave to African posterity?
Conditions in Africa are getting seriously bad. And the Commission of the African Union seems to ignore that she is accountable to the African people for her actions. The African Union is not just for the African heads of state; it belongs to all Africans - to all those deported by force or with their will, including those whom you have recognized in the sixth region of Africa. To all of us, you are answerable. As long as you ignore us, we will lay the foundation for a new Africa, different from what you perceive but consistent with what, we, Africans - on the continent or from abroad - perceive. We want freedom, decolonization, and the withdrawal of Africa from the international organizations that do not honor us, which do not recognize us, which despise us. We reject any foreign funding and we want Africa for us, the Africans.
African youth, of which I am part, is asking you to launch a forum of discussion on the website of the organization to provide an open virtual space for Africans of all combined social rank. We ask you to leave the scheme of administration closer to us. Do not misunderstand our silence, as our next revolution will not be announced.
Wishing you good reception, receive, Mr. President, the assurances of my highest consideration.
Gilbert NKAMTO
- Secretary general of the Panafrican Democratic Movement for the Renaissance (PDMR)
- Co-Founder of African Youth Synergy
- Partner member of RAPAD-CEMAC network
- Coordinator of the Non-governmental Fact Finding on the current crisis in Libya.
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Updated on 9th May 2011
BEFORE US/NATO INVASION, LIBYA HAD THE HIGHEST HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDEX, THE LOWEST INFANT MORTALITY, THE HIGHEST LIFE EXPECTANCY IN ALL OF AFRICA!!
By: Mary Lynn Cramer, USA
Before the USNATO and “rebels” began their murderous and destructive attacks on the Libyans and their government, people In Libya had the highest gross domestic product (GDP) at purchasing power parity (PPP) per capita of all of Africa. The government took care to ensure that everyone in the country shared in the wealth. Libya had the highest Human Development Index of any country on the continent. In Libya, a lower percentage of people lived below the poverty line than in the Netherlands....Libya ranked 61st, with a lower incarceration rate than Czech republic. It had the lowest infant mortality rate of all of Africa. Libya had the highest life expectancy of all of Africa, less than 5�f the population was undernourished, In response to the rising food prices around the world, the government of Libya abolished all taxes on food. (Taken from “World Cheers as the CIA Plunges Libya into Chaos” by David Rothscum, Axis of Logic, 2/27/11)
A fact the media cannot falsify is the HDI (Human Development Index) measured by UN officials. These data indicate, for example, that Libya had in 1970, a situation a little worse than Brazil (HDI of 0.541, against 0.551 of Brazil.) The Libyan index surpassed the Brazilian years later, and in 2008 was well ahead: 0.810 (ranked 43rd), compared to 0.764 for Brazil (ranking 59th). All three sub-indices that comprise the HDI are higher in Libya: income, longevity and education. Libya is the country with the highest HDI in Africa. Therefore, the best distribution of income and health care and public education—the last two are free. And almost 10�f Libyan students receive scholarships to study in foreign countries. In his “Green Book” Gadhafi wrote that workers should be politically involved and self-employed, and that the land belongs to those who work it and the house to those who reside there. And power shall be exercised by the people directly, without intermediaries, without politicians, through popular congresses and committees, where the whole population decides the fundamental issues of the district, city and country...real democracy, not capitalist “representative” democracy that works for those who have the most and ignores those who have little. (Taken from “Who Is Muammar Gaddafi?” by Antonio Cesar Oliveira)
Before the current US/NATO military invasion, Libya was pumping one million 800 thousand barrels a day of excellent quality light oil, along with abundant deposits of natural gas. Such riches—because shared with the Libyan people--allowed Libya to reach life expectancy that is almost at 75 years of age and the highest per capita income in Africa. In December 1951, Libya became the first African country to attain its independence after WWII. Its harsh desert is located over an enormous lake of fossil waters, equivalent to more than three times the land area of Cuba; this has made it possible to construct a broad network of pipelines of fresh water that stretch from one end of the country to the other. (Taken from “Does NATO Plan To Occupy Libya?” by Fidel Castro, 2/22/11)
Below is my response and a letter from a reader who correctly questions my careless insertion of a misstatement in my original essay “Three Questions for Liberal Leftists.” Please note the correction and explanation thereof in the material above. Mary Lynn
Dear Reader, you are correct, of course. I should have said in "Africa," and I should have said
BEFORE US/NATO INVASION, LIBYA HAD THE HIGHEST HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDEX, THE LOWEST INFANT MORTALITY, THE HIGHEST LIFE EXPECTANCY IN ALL OF AFRICA!!
Usually it is due to some bad typo or spelling error that I might get a letter from someone saying they just couldn't continue reading after I wrote "surf" instead of "serf," or "prostrate" instead of "prostate." So I thank you very much for continuing with my article and finding it worthwhile once you got beyond my reference to 'Arab world' when I meant 'Africa;' and 'highest standard of living', when I should have said 'highest Human Development Index in Africa.'
Thank you also for you sensitivity and consideration in bringing this to my attention; and for your supportive comments regarding the rest of the article...which I had such strong doubts about the value thereof, I shut down my computer last Friday and did not go back on line until yesterday. I usually write researched economic critique and political analysis. This was a tough-in-cheek, personal commentary, and obviously still needed editing. Mia Culpa. Mary Lynn
Mary Lynn: Great thought provoking questions, but I feel compelled to take exception with your statement that Libya has the highest standard of living in the Arab world. Perhaps you intended it to read, 'in the African world' which without question they clearly are, but depending on how you analyze data it could be said that there are several countries in the Arab world that have the highest standards of living in the entire world surpassing ours here in the United States as well as most of Europe.
While your point rightfully contends with the perception of living standards within Libya as portrayed in western media being much worse than they actually are, while in fact the standard of living there has increased dramatically over the last 40 years, they are not as wealthy as what I assume to be a misprint in your article would indicate. This is not to discount the crux of your point, for in truth Libya's standard of living there has surpassed many countries including some NATO allied countries in western Europe which are readily assumed by most to be 'comfortably developed nations' with no dire need of international intervention in order to save the people living in such countries as Portugal (or UK for that matter) from political oppression hampering people's lifestyles.
I understand that you may still not agree that a correction of your article is warranted and in fact stand by your statement based upon specific isolated slices of available data, but I must warn you that others might choose to entirely discredit you by also using other isolated slices of data by solely displaying facts revealing income levels alone within countries such as UAE and Qatar indicating dramatic discrepancies of income levels when compared to those within Libya.
Studies such as the U N Human Index, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Development_Index, which takes several various factors into account in measuring the overall well-being of a nation's people scores Libya very highly indeed, certainly at a 'second tier' level world-wide, which is nothing to sneeze at but it still doesn't quite back up the claim that Libya has 'the highest standard of living in the Arab World' which in and of itself is just a little too bold a statement to make on its own, and quite frankly made it difficult for me as a reader not to dismiss your article out of hand without continuing on to the rest of its otherwise excellent points used in your efforts to open up new perspectives for the reader.
Other than that, I enjoyed it.
My original essay can be found in English and Spanish at the following sites:
Three Question Quiz For Leftist Liberals Regarding (1) Oil Profits ...
Three Question Quiz For Leftist Liberals Regarding (1) Oil Profits; (2) Libyan Rebels; (3) Sex, ... By Mary Lynn Cramer. 30 April, 2011. Countercurrents.org ...
www.countercurrents.org/cramer300411.htm
Cuestionario para izquierdistas moderados « noticias de abajo
30 Abr 2011 ... por Mary Lynn Cramer, 30 de abril 2011. dissidentvoice.org .... http://dissidentvoice.org/2011/04/three-question-quiz-for-leftist-liberals- ...noticiasdeabajo.wordpress.com/.../cuestionario-para-izquierdistas-moderados/
Source: Concurent
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Updated on 7th March 2006
TRIPOLI SUMMIT OF THE NON-GOVERNEMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS OF THE AFRICAN YOUTH FROM THE INTERIOR AND THE DIAPORA
Accordingly to the information provided by the Organizers, the Non-governmental Youth Organizations which was envisaged in Syrt City into the Great Jamahiriya has been transferred to Tripoli due to the opening session in the same period of the Libyan General People’s congress.
Never since the aperture of the Great Jamahiriya to the external world, Tripoli had not known enough effervescence like that was noted during the period devoted to the Youth summit. More than 1500 young people coming from different sides of the world spent some days in Libya giving answer to the call of the International Guide of the revolution, the brother comrade Muammar Al Qathafi; call launched firstly on September 9, 2005 and secondly during his speech of the end of the year 2005 where it was question of giving more attention to the youth for a renaissance of Africa, to the woman and the children for a promotion of an African identity and a creation of the United States of Africa. If for the Guide, Africa must move starting from its roots, i.e. its youth, for the Union of Libyan Youth, it was a matter of transforming this prophecy of the Guide in its practical form.
From the 27 to February 29, these young people coming from the four continents (from Canada in the United States of America while passing by Haiti, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy and the 52 African States with its islands of Mauritius, Seychelles, Madagascar and Cape Verde) determined themselves to treat in its practical form the proposals of the Guide in addition with some proposals produced by the Libyan Youth Union which someone will not forget the main efforts made by Ahmed Abu Jinah, the President of this union.
It would be acknowledged some blunder observed during this summit which was taken place in the great popular hall of Tripoli due to some problems of languages and interpretation; something that created disorder and diverted the attention of the participants which consequently led the conference up to the 1st march, one day more upon the three committed for the summit.
We will retain four main decisions coming up after some innumerable discussions:
(1) The adoption of the Leader Qathafi’s project on the youth, women and children.
(2) The creation of an African Organization for the youth, women and children.
(3) The adoption of the charter of the organization and the election of its first president, Engineer Seif El Islam Moammar Al Qathafi.
(4) The adoption of the proposal of the Tripoli Declaration on the immigration.
"Africa needs to take off but it can make it only if Youth is informed of what is done in the environment of decision-making; the African governments have the obligation to say the truth to their people and to their youth... The young people have the obligation to know all about the domestic and external policy of Africa without what the so much desired unity would be a mystification..." This is in substance what someone can keep from the speech of the Leader Moammar Al Qathafi during his inaugural speech in front of thousands of young people coming to support his project for Africa.
By Gilbert.
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Updated on 8th January 2006
THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF QADDAFI’S PROJECT RELATING TO THE WOMAN, THE CHILD, THE YOUNG AFRICANS, AROUSES A BROAD INTEREST ON BEHALF OF THE MEDIA.
The announcement of the initiation of the new African strategic project, namely the Qaddafi’s project concerning the Woman, the Child and Young African, aroused a great interest on behalf of the international mass media.
Thus the Newspapers, the News Agencies, the Radios and televisions, reflected this project as of its announcement by the Libyan News Agency JANA.
The News Agency UPI took again the announcement of this project in Libya from which the goal is to create an Organization and a Bank for a financing along the year 2006 to promote the youth activities that could be benefit to the whole Africans. The American Press Agency stressed the name of Mr. Kadhafi, carried by this strategic project in favor of the Young Africans, the Children and the woman in all Africa.
As for the Panafrican Press Agency Panafrican (PANAPRESS), it granted a particular place to this project which must start as from this year 2006. It indicated that all the efforts will be made by the organizers and associations concerned to contribute to the success of this enterprise. The Agency of the Middle-East MENA was also interested in this African strategic project whose initiator is Moammar Al Qaddafi, guide of the Libyan Revolution.
In Djibouti, the radio and television put forward the announcement of the great project and a broad time antenna in Arab, Somalia, French and Afari languages granted to the Guide of the revolution.
Tunisian newspaper "ACH CHOROUK" reserved a significant place this strategic project in favor of the African people. Therefore, the newspaper interviewed the general delegate of the Great Jamahiriya in Tunisia which stressed the importance of similar project whose objective is to make it possible by Africans to make their progress and their ambitions in the multiple fields of development.
On its side, the Egyptian Review "ROSE EL YOUSSEF" evoked this imposing project in favour of the children, the woman and African youth.
Source: JAMAHIRIYA PRESS AGENCY; www.jamahiriyanews.com
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Updated on 4 October 2005
FINALLY THE YOUNG AFRICANS DARED AND THEIR FIRST FORUM WAS HELD IN BAMAKO FROM 7 TO 12 OF SEPTEMBER 2005 UNDER THE IMPULSE OF THE MALIAN GOVERNMENT.
From 7 to 12 of September 2005, was held in Bamako the Forum of Youth for the Promotion of the African Unity. Forum which gathered more than 200 participants come from various African countries as well as diaspora. PDMR was represented by the member and associate Gilbert Nkamto of the Panafrican Council in Tripoli ( Libya) and by the main coordinator of PDMR-Faso Mrs. Zerbo Blandine who was accompanied by her communicator, member and associate Sanon Valentine.
The forum had the great merit to weigh on the great questions of the dayly life of Africa as of the questions relative to disfonctionnement of the institutions which are charged to lead the continent towards a total integration and that as well on a national scale as continental.
Four great themes were treated by Malian and African Union experts among the others, " African Union, Nepad and the African Renaissance", "Values of the African Unit", "Employment and Training of young people in Africa" and finally "the Problems of the Panafrican Youth Charter". That they are the Experts or the participants, all agreed on the fact that Africa needs a radical change in the work system which prevails in the continent and which leads it towards the way of its lost. Ones needs for Africa an endogenous policy turned towards the reincarnation of African social ethics, towards the revalorization of its education system and towards the opening of the borders which today, causes enormous wounds and enormous losses in human lives among the people of Africa.
The young people benefitted from this opportunity to ask the African leaders to take in hand their responsability and to execute all the decisions which are made in the direction to transform Africa and to stop all its evils caused by debt, diseases, Structural Adjustment Program which do the one of the international (Western) Newspaper, to redefine the place of Africa in the famous globalisation.
By the Editor staff.
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Updated on 22nd May 2005
AFRICA URGENTLY NEEDS STABILITY AND REFERENCE.
The first phase was that of liberating Africa from direct colonization. It was achieved at the hands of the founding leaders of modern Africa their continuation as leaders firmly established the independence of the African states and the emergence of the OAU. They did these achievements because they never came via elections, neither did they continue as leaders through elections. Their continuation was a result of a legitimate struggle for life.
Colonization plotted against those leaders, who liberated their peoples from it and from the domination of its supporters so as to abort their program of liberation, so as to abort their programmes of liberation. Thus, to mention but a few Kwame Nkrumah, Modibo Keita were overthrown. Lumumba was killed.
The second phase was the military coups and lack of stability in Africa. The most important national programme has become the security programme of the military ruling regime. Naturally all aspects of social and economic development were put aside.
The third phase is that of multiparty systems and elections. It is imported from the colonialist west, forced upon Africans as a condition for economic aid. Thus, Africa entered, once again, a period of instability. Elections became like coups, the only difference is that while elections are civilian, coups are military.
Due to the lack of stability at the level of political leadership and the theory of power rotation, no political leadership was or will be able to implement its economic and social development programme. For the elected African leaders, it was just a routine work until the end of their tenure.
The fourth and the current phase, also a result of elections, is that of rebellion. The toppling down, once again, of elected leaders before the end of their constitutional term, coupled with non acceptance of election results as well as tribal demographic, border, regional and at times even doctrinal violence. Examples are; Liberia, Cote d’Ivoire, Central African Republic, Chad, the Sudan and Algeria.
Certain leaderships came as a result of internal revolutions or liberation wars and were prompted by progressive goals. Such leaderships are supposed to have revolutionary programmes to transform the reality in African societies. But they got into a dilemma and were forced to play electoral and multiparty systems.
Therefore, these societies were deprived of such revolutionary programmes because their leaders lost their leading position and because of power rotation. Examples; Zimbabwe, Mozambique, South Africa, Namibia, Uganda, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Burkina Faso. That is to say serious leaderships with determination to achieve progress.
Hence, Africa is in desperate need to achieve political stability. It has been proven that power rotation has not and will not do it. Without political stability there would be no strategic programs of economic transformation. One factor of stability is continuation of political leadership as well as a legal, social and political reference.
The western world enjoys such advantages. Africa imitates it without having these advantages. Western monarchies do not rule but are indispensable terms of reference, particularly at times of crisis. In the absence of such monarchies, there is a constitutional reference. By law it is respected and binding such a constitutional courts… Supreme courts at states level. These are not available in Africa and if they exist they are nominal.
Africa should immediately contemplate, at any level, to solve the dilemma of stability and reference.
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Knowledge is a natural right of every human being of which no one has the right to deprive him or her under any pretext.
Silang Emmanuel Sanda, Libya, North Africa.
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Updated on 24th Abril 2005
ALREADY AN AIR LINE OPENED BETWEEN AGADEZ AND SEBHA – 24 April 2005.
Two sisters cities illustrated by their geo-strategic assessment have just come to share the same air line as of the great economic partnership and the private relations, which bind the Great Jamahiriya to the Republic of Niger. From now on, Sebha - city located at the south of Libya – will be at a few minutes of Agadez, economic capital of Niger from the North, this due to the unlimited efforts of the Libyan Airline company.
A flight for this purpose took place in the evening of last Tuesday April 19, from Sebha international airport to Agadez airport with at its board a great delegation including many personalities of the civil aviation, of the aeronautics and of the international airports of the two brothers countries.
It is also necessary to underline the cultural and political impact of such event, which gave place to a significant ceremony at the Agadez international airport at the presence of Yahia Yandka, Governor of Agadez, Akouli Daouli, Mayor of Agadez City and the general Consul of the Great Jamahiriya in Agadez.
This official opening of the air bridge Sebha - Agadez, which puts an end to the insulation of the two great sisters cities of Libya and Niger, has as a consequence a weekly shuttle of the commercial flight of the Libyan Airline company every Tuesday. That undoubtedly contributes to the economic development and an intense commercial exchange between the two countries as the Secretary-general of the popular committee of the air services in the Great Jamahiriya underlined it.
Gilbert.
Updated on 8th October 2004
SHOULD NEO-COLONISATION AND GLOBALIZATION BE PLUGUED IN AFRICA WITH ECONOMIC STAGNATION DUE TO ITS DEPENDENCY SYNDROME?
Despite the theories that have been propagated earmarked at translating African underdevelopment into a development that is sustainable. Certainly, there is still an African problem. The underdevelopment cry is still heard even when ears are blocked.
Our human and natural resources potentials undoubtedly make us the richest continent. Paradoxically the wealth largely remains a paper and research document since the other side of this reality is the experience (Technological knowledge). African should focus on developing an economy that is knowledge and technology based instead of the one that is based on export of natural and human resources.
Publications, conferences, seminars, workshops just to name a few, have identified some of the African problem, pointed blame, made recommendations have even gone to apply some resolutions, but one question remains; are the result attained? Shall we keep theorizing and heaping blame on others without recognizing that this is the problem we should each and everyone embark on solving.
Poverty in Africa has unfortunately de-humanized Africans and stripped them off a lot dignity, the end justifies the means, turns out unfortunately to be a concept which unconsciously dwells in many Africans, thus pushing them into wanton acts aimed at making them assume those human expectation ideals that are witnessed by western living standards.
Unfortunately many end up with swollen pockets yet with poor minds.
SOME AFRICANS EVEN WITHOUT FOREIGN INFLUENCE HAVE CHOSEN TO KEEP IMPOVERISHING AFRICA
Truly, Africa is purposely impoverished by some non-Africans who make use of the greedy disposition of other Africans for the development of these non-Africans, but some Africans even without foreign influence have chosen to keep impoverishing Africa due to some very egoistic and selfish tenets they clings to. Spiraling tribalism, adhesion to pockets hole, traditional practices, ingrained and cultivated incongruously accepted fraudulent practices, recalcitrant sociological tendencies, loss of creativity and innovation, are few examples which stifle development in Africa by Africans.
Africans want development, yet some of these very Africans are the very ones who preach good governance but practice bad governance, have hung human virtue adages, epigrams and proverbs on their walls but are incarnates of vice. African institutions are so, corrupt subject to bureaucratic practices such that investment in Africa remains threatened. Conflicts are rife as a result of a cleavage in religious and ethnic believes and a struggle to control resources. We understand poverty in African contributes almost entirely to its backwardness.
We understand the elements that cause African stagnation. It is time to creatively identify the little area where you can develop Africa and with the convergence of these little developments, a great African development shall be the end product.
DEVELOPMENT AND PEACE OPERATE IN THE SAME SPHERES.
Let us understand that development and peace operate on the same spheres, and the fundamental belief that the power of love amongst Africans and not the love of power shall be the ultimate element that will break down all anti-developments barriers that exist in us and thence fuse those strength and talents within us towards the attainment of the African dream. Almost each and every one of us are guilty of holding Africa behind; but once we have recognized this, we must start from where we are and gradually expand our contribution towards making Africa a heaven for life’s treasure.
PANAFRICAN CALLS AND CRIES
Let us not forget President Thabo Mbeki’s speech at the Pan African Parliament held in Gallagher Estate, Midrand South Africa on the 16th of September 2004 which was based on things fall apart written by Chinue Achebe in one of his classic work, he quoted “warriors will fight scribes for the control of your institutions, wild bush will conquer your roads and pathways; your land will yield less and less while your offspring multiply; your houses will leak from the floats and your soil will crack from drought; your sons will refuse to pick up the hoe and prefer to wander in the wild; you shall learn ways of cheating and you will poison the kola nuts you serve your own friends.
We have the duty to ensure that nobody contemplating the future of Africa should one again say things fall apart. The PDMR is a gateway for the youths to fight for African Sovereignty. You, youth of all Africa, tend your hand to you follow. Nothing can overcome us if we recognized our defaults and if we accept that the power is not the mean of solving our problems but the mutual force to reverse the bad attitude that characterizes us. Join us, our tribune offer you opportunity to talk and to exercise your power in the development of our common land.
Editorial staff of the PDMR.
