Wasn't That Guy President Once?
Bush says US to double Africa aid (BBC News)
The president announced the US would double its aid to Africa over the next five years, "with primary focus on reforming countries".
The West's greatest challenge, he said, was to "get beyond empty symbolism and discredited policies".
"Economic development is not something we do for countries, it is something they achieve with us," he said.
Wolfowitz stresses private-sector role in Africa (Reuters)
New World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz encouraged business leaders on Thursday to look for, and help expand, opportunities in Africa as the continent strives to turn a corner on development.
The former Pentagon official told a dinner meeting of American and African business leaders a flourishing private sector was vital to Africa's prospects.
"The record of the last 50 years could not be clearer, that the countries that have developed successfully have developed strong private sectors," Wolfowitz told the U.S.-Africa Business Summit.
Bono talks of US crusade (Madeleine Bunting, The Guardian)
Bono points to a number of breakthroughs in American policy on Africa as signs that his campaigning is paying off. The US signed up to the 100% debt relief package agreed last weekend at the G7 finance ministers' meeting in London. He also cites the fact that aid to Africa has nearly trebled under George Bush and the US in 2003 initiated a $15bn (£8.2bn) five-year programme on Aids.
Geldof hails Bush's commitment to Africa (Victoria Ward, The Scotsman)
LIVE 8 organiser Bob Geldof claimed yesterday that George Bush had done more for Africa than any other US president.
Geldof said he had recently defended Bush on the issue in France. "They refuse to accept, because of their political ideology, that he has actually done more than any American president for Africa," he told Time magazine. "But it's empirically so."
Clinton appeal on Africa poverty (BBC News)
Former US President Bill Clinton says the generosity of those who gave to the tsunami appeal could be harnessed to help end Africa's severe poverty.
It's amusing to see some people begin to credit President Bush for being the African president they wanted the last guy to be, even if it makes the last guy feel left out.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 06/30/05 10:08 | Other | Technorati
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Wait a minute. The world yells at us about our National Debt being bad for the world economy, then praises us for giving Billions of $ away to people that can't manage their own money, and then forgiving Billions more in $ debt that they already mismanaged?
Geeesh.
Just nuke em from orbit.
It's the only way to be sure.
Posted by Brian Poirier @ 17:43 on 06/30/05
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