HAVE YOU GUYS READ THE ARTICLE BELOW? I THINK WE
BETTER LET MR. DONNELLY KNOW THAT HE HAS JUST JOINED
THE LONG LINE OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN FOOLED BY
JAMMEH. SAMBA, ALL OF US NEED TO SEND A PERSONAL NOTE
TO MR. DONNELY AND THE BOSTON GLOBE.
--- SAMBA NJIE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> The article below appeared on the Boston Globe a few
> weeks ago.
> Samba
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> AFRICAN LEADERS LASH OUT
> AT UN, WEST ACCUSED OF KEEPING
> CONTINENT IN POVERTY
>
> Author: By John Donnelly,
> Globe Staff Date:
> 09/09/2000 Page: A1 Section:
> National/Foreign
>
> UNITED NATIONS - Amid a year that
> has seen intensive
> international attention
> toward Africa and its daunting
> list of troubles,
> dozens of angry African leaders
> fired back this week at Western
> powers, saying concern
> alone is not enough.
>
> As the United Nations millennium
> summit finished three
> days of deliberations and
> speeches yesterday, an overriding
> theme emerged from
> African heads of state
> who charged that the forces of
> globalization are
> enriching the West anew while
> sentencing them to even more
> misery.
>
> "We were slaves, then there was
> colonization, and we
> are saying that even with
> globalization we will never become
> global slaves
> again," President Yahya Jammeh
> of Gambia said in an interview in
> his hotel suite
> overlooking Central Park. "It took
> African blood, sweat, and tears to
> build the West, and
> now the West, instead of
> respecting us, is treating us like
> dogs."
>
> Several African leaders voiced
> solidarity with the
> grass-roots international
> movement against the International
> Monetary Fund and
> the World Bank,
> suggesting that an alliance was
> possible.
>
> "From Seattle to Washington, D.C.,
> from Davos to
> London, and in many other
> places, people have spoken and
> signaled in no
> uncertain terms that the present
> world order, particularly in
> economic, trade, and
> development areas, is
> unsatisfactory and needs to be
> reformed," said Anund
> Priyay Neewoor, UN
> ambassador from the tiny island
> nation of Mauritius.
>
> "What the people have said in the
> streets now, the
> developing countries have been
> saying for many years in various
> international fora
> with little success," he said.
>
> Resentment from Africa is not
> uncommon at world
> events, but this time it came in
> a year in which the United Nations
> held extensive
> hearings in January on the
> continent's needs. On Thursday, a
> historic meeting of
> the UN Security Council
> focused on revamping peacekeeping
> operations, with
> Africa very much in mind.
>
> The Clinton administration, as
> well, has rhetorically
> elevated African policy to a
> higher plane than any previous
> administration. Clinton
> traveled twice to the
> continent, most recently last
> month to Nigeria and
> Tanzania. And his
> administration has advocated debt
> forgiveness,
> increased spending to fight
> HIV/AIDS and faster deployment of
> better-trained UN
> peacekeepers to defuse
> conflicts.
>
> But at the three-day summit,
> leader after leader from
> African nations attacked the
> West, some specifically mentioning
> the United States.
> They said the Western
> powers talked a good game about
> extending the benefits
> of globalization to Africa
> but then stood by as corporations
> plundered riches
> from the continent.
>
> President Thabo Mbeki of South
> Africa decried the
> day-to-day misery of
> one-sixth of all people in the
> world who survive on
> less than $1 a day, saying it
> should be "offensive" to all
> leaders at the summit.
> The General Assembly, as
> expected, passed a resolution
> yesterday that had
> sweeping goals on behalf of the
> poor, including lifting an
> astronomical 600 million
> people out of extreme poverty in
> 15 years.
>
> "The poor of the world stand at
> the gates of the
> comfortable mansions occupied
> by each and every king and queen,
> president, prime
> minister, and minister
> privileged to attend this unique
> meeting," Mbeki said.
>
> And J.J. Rawlings, the president
> of Ghana, singled out
> multinational corporations
> as nourishing and "thrusting"
> corruption on Africa.
>
> Rawlings, and other African
> leaders this week, did not
> turn the spotlight on the
> role of the continent's rulers in
> nurturing such
> corruption.
>
> Instead, they portrayed themselves
> as victims of
> globalization, burdened by debt,
> forced to accept harmful economic
> terms to secure
> World Bank loans, and falling
> far behind the rest of the world
> in technological
> advancement.
>
> All week, one of the most forceful
> voices was Gambia's
> Jammeh, who said it was
> time that African nations received
> far better
> reimbursement for their natural wealth.
>
> "When you look at Africa today -
> we are one of the
> richest continents in terms of
> raw materials - because of the
> lack of technology and
> lack of means of extracting
> oil and diamonds and other
> materials, foreign
> companies come and exploit and set
> their own terms and say, `Take it
> or leave it.'
>
> "It is either accept what they
> offer or you will have
> no jobs for people," he said.
> "We have no choice."
>
>
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