Chaos and darkness

I found this interesting article in the Telegraph this morning on Joseph Kony, the savage Ugandan Rebel leader who has been fighting for than 20 years to gain power in Uganda in order to rule the country according to the ten commandments for he believes that he is a prophet. Joseph Kony is as unauthentic character as Hugo Chávez and the only reason why he is the bushes instead of being in some palace in Kampala is just that he didn't have anything to incite Western Nations to support him and that Uganda is an unimportant country in the sense that it does not have natural resources.

Comments

[Nicholas Newman]

Almost every day we hear that the West is to blame for Africa’s problems. Yet, every day we hear the only solution is more European Union (EU) aid is needed for sub-Saharan Africa, despite the EU spending some many billions, over the last five years in development aid.
to read more http://www.oxfordprospect.co.uk/Africa.htm

[kiki]

I think at some point, we are going to have to go beyond, the who is to blame question when it comes to Africa and move on to the most important one of what do we do? The answer isn't aid because aid is not enough and it is a cope-out answer, which enables Western countries to feel good about themselves without having to make more difficult but also more helpful choices. What we do is that we help Africans helping themselves by first giving them the same respect that we give to Western countries, which means not forcing them to implement policies, which we wouldn't implement in our countries because they would be too harsh on the weak and the poor. Helping also means to stop thinking that the West is the world. Last week the Doha development Round, which would have enabled countries to sell their products (especially agricultural products) on the world market failed. Western nations only thought of their farmers, which would have lost their market shares. By being selfish and Hobbsian, they condemned African farmers to poverty and their countries to continue to depend on the charity of the world's richest nations. The world has gotten smaller and it is no longer possible to ignore the fact that what happens in Africa concerns the world because globalization has made all of us Africans.