Essential The Africa the Media Doesn't Tell You About

[The Odum of Ala Igbo]

China Has Strategic Objectives In Going Global, Does Africa?

Africa's a continent without unified political leadership tho...

 

[Bawon Samedi]

Africa's a continent without unified political leadership tho...

The irony is African countries have the MOST leverage against China.

 

[The Odum of Ala Igbo]

The irony is African countries have the MOST leverage against China.

Speak on it sir!

 

[loyola llothta]

I really think one of its operation is bio weapons. Like Ebola

 

[Bawon Samedi]

Speak on it sir!

1. Their resources which China needs. Remember China is coming to Africa not the other way around.

2. Africa can be like and threaten China on some, "fukk this we'll just go to the West, Russia, India, Turkey or Japan for better deals." And China will fold imo. Even with China's growing influence on the continent the West still has more pull and China DOES NOT wanna lose potential markets it barely has.

3. China can't just bully their way in like the West did.

African leaders just have to choose SMART business deals that benefits the country.

 

[The Odum of Ala Igbo]

1. Their resources which China needs. Remember China is coming to Africa not the other way around.

2. Africa can be like and threaten China on some, "fukk this we'll just go to the West, Russia, India, Turkey or Japan for better deals." And China will fold imo. Even with China's growing influence on the continent the West still has more pull and China DOES NOT wanna lose potential markets it barely has.

3. China can't just bully their way in like the West did.

African leaders just have to choose SMART business deals that benefits the country.

Yes, but as I said before - Africa doesn't have unified political leadership. African countries sometimes compete against each other to curry China's favour. I think what you've proposed is highly unlikely to happen.

So, the original post asked about a strategic 'African' objective going forward. That's impossible in this realm.

 

[loyola llothta]

The Current Ebola Epidemic in Eastern Congo. Humanitarian Crisis

By J. B. Gerald
May. 7 2019

With over a billion dollars pledged so far to rebuild Notre Dame de Paris, another monument to what Western civilization has accomplished enacts a daily tragedy before the forests and villagers trying to stay alive in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

Still ignored in the Euro-American press is a current Ebola epidemic in particularly Kivu province 1 : the second largest outbreak of Ebola on record and the first where medical care givers are being attacked.

Previously Ebola was difficult to contain without quarantine and research into the ill person’s contacts. Currently the disease is being attacked by large scale vaccination programs relying on U.S. pharmaceuticals. But the vaccination and treatment programs are disrupted in Eastern Congo due to multiple conflicts forcing a hundred thousand people this April alone, into flight, some taking refuge across borders with other countries.

While not declared a global emergency by the UN World Health Organization, the potential is there. A report by the High Commissioner for Refugees notes its work in the RDC is hampered by lack of funding with 47 million USD allocated but only 6.2 million USD received in contributions. 2

Rececently Dr. Richard Valery Mouzoko Kiboung, head of the Ebola team in Butembo, a Camerounais working for WHO, was attacked and killed at a medical conference; two of his staff were wounded. The killers’ motivation is unknown. Some local groups say that Ebola doesn’t exist and its threat is used as a means of control, or money raising. 3

Others say Ebola was brought to the region by white people. Marburg disease which is a kind of hemorrhagic fever much like Ebola and 88% fatal first appeared in 1967 in a laboratory in Marburg Germany, and like Ebola is considered a biological warfare agent (a note).

The Ebola virus (Zaire ebolavirus) first identified in Zaire in 2010 may be a strain of the Marburg virus. The area where Ebola is proliferating has been contested with arms for several decades due to its natural resources sought by Rwandan, Euro-American and Asian markets. Buyers of desired metals are often forced to buy from the militias which control various mines or access to mines even when these are registered with the government. The DRC government army does not control the region. Regional militias represent breakaway units of the government’s army, Rwandan forces, Hutu refugee forces, Tutsi Congolese among other distinct Congolese tribes. The United Nations has peacekeeping troops committed to the region which regularly take casualties.

The recent murder of Dr. Mouzoko is one of 119 attacks so far this year on medical personnel attempting to counter the epidemic, most often under the auspices of the World Health Organization. In researching the causes of the murders press accounts are not helpful. Eleven men were recently arrested in response to the killing of Dr. Mouzoko, but no mention of their motives or allegiances is given. Logic suggests the killers of medical personnel serve the interests of the Ebola epidemic itself, causing panic flight and spread of the disease which could cause widespread death. 33 medical workers have died from contracting the disease.

There is some chance that medical personnel are being killed tactically in a biological war effort to depopulate the region of its inhabitants.


But that would be an extreme tactic to accomplish more quickly what continues under corrupt policies the government and corporation boards have furthered for years. While depopulation would deprive mining enterprises of local workers it would favor technologically advanced companies using modern mining equipment. International corporations in the area (whether they are mining with license from the government or without), are involved in acts of plunder, taking what belongs to the region’s people without bettering their lives. It is a monstrous ongoing crime dating in the Congo back to the days of King Leopold.

Over a thousand verified Ebola deaths have been counted so far. Massive vaccination by a Merck produced drug are apparently effective. WHO is expecting new pharmaceuticals from Johnson & Johnson which await federal approval. 4 There is no suggestion in the press that U.S. corporate vaccine products are supplied at cost.

The UN’s emergency management plan for the epidemic is operational but requires 71.5 million USD. 5

Questioning a Euro-American media which has proven so faithful to the state in its propaganda against Venezuela, is not likely to provide answers. Media silence on Eastern Congo supports fears of illegal operations waged to the interests of major western corporations. Aside from pharmaceutical companies, according to Global Witness in 2009, the principle corporate buyers of minerals in the region were: “Bangkok-based THAISARCO (a subsidiary of British metals group AMC), UK-based Afrimex, and Belgium-based Trademet” (“Global Witness uncovers foreign companies’ links to Congo violence,” July 21, 2009). 6

Since informative reports in 2008 and 2009 by Keith Harmon Snow 7, Global Witness 8 and Roger Miller 9, updated reports of corporate involvement are not easily available.

The current political situation in the Congo doesn’t offer much hope of the government addressing the emergency. While Kabila promised to step down and hold elections which he did after some delay, the power of the country may have remained his. An article by Kambale Musavuli of Friends of the Congo reports that former President Kabila’s party won 342 of the Parliament’s 500 seats in the election, and controls 22 of the 26 provinces, 91 of 108 senate seats with a similar percentage of governors; the Congo’s “elected” president Félix Tshisekedi, is considered installed as a Kabila compliant president while the Catholic Church Observer Mission found that Martin Fayulu won the election. 10

In sum the change in Presidency isn’t likely to change the policies of the state as allied with corporate needs, which have allowed the conflicts and mining practices in the East Congo for many years.11. An ongoing genocide warningfor the peoples of the Eastern Congo continues. Background. 12 13. Night’s Lantern first noted a genocide warning for peoples of the Eastern Congo, among others affected by resource theft in 2004, followed by others.

ebola and the resources of eastern congo - j.b.gerald

 

[Premeditated]

maybe I'm being optimistic but with Africa's VERY young population and most of them wanting change, I really do think there will be better leadership and are going to focus on diversifying their economies. Several countries are focus on manufacturing.

 

[Secure Da Bag]

maybe I'm being optimistic but with Africa's VERY young population and most of them wanting change, I really do think there will be better leadership and are going to focus on diversifying their economies. Several countries are focus on manufacturing.

Those leaders will have to die out in 10 years AND hopefully no other country moves in for another 20 years. Otherwise, I don't have much hope with the way things are currently going.

 

[JDH]

Yes, but as I said before - Africa doesn't have unified political leadership. African countries sometimes compete against each other to curry China's favour. I think what you've proposed is highly unlikely to happen.

So, the original post asked about a strategic 'African' objective going forward. That's impossible in this realm.

There is no united african objective, all countries can do is build themselves up which in turn can facilitate intra-african trade. With sound macroeconomic policies guiding the private sector and protecting local industries until u meet the threshold conditions for sustainable growth (no FDI fake growth). any "pan-africanism" that is attempted under the banner of neoliberalism will be designed to institutionalize africans fighting africans for scraps from the west or China

 

[loyola llothta]

You have to watch the army @Diasporan Royalty

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[Apollo Creed]

Yall following the South Africa elections?

 

[The Odum of Ala Igbo]

Yall following the South Africa elections?

Sorta. I’m hoping Ramaphosa pulls out a respectable win so he can start to go after Zupta cadres

 

[Apollo Creed]

Sorta. I’m hoping Ramaphosa pulls out a respectable win so he can start to go after Zupta cadres

Insane how the Guptas run that country

 

[phcitywarrior]

Sorta. I’m hoping Ramaphosa pulls out a respectable win so he can start to go after Zupta cadres

Well let's see. I don't think the job that needs to be done is South Africa can be done by one man. There's still the political-economic establishment with deeply entrenched interest in maintaining the status quo.