Africa depends on US for survival

Africa, for all its sanctimonious posturing around the alleged recent comment by President Trump, pictured, is wholly dependent on the US and Western countries, who pump billions of dollars into the continent, for survival.

The African Union, a rather insignificant body, is demanding an apology, and a letter writer suggests that Africa should boycott the US. Really?

The following is taken from The Hill: The US administration already wants to cut its foreign aid to Africa. President Trump has repeatedly asked the following: With so much corruption in Africa, how much US funding is stolen? And, why should the US continue supporting the African Growth and Opportunity Act, which provides massive support for corrupt African regimes? In 2015 alone the US provided more than $8 billion in assistance to 47 sub-Saharan countries. SA received $362 million.

The AU admits that “25% of the continent’s GDP (nearly $150 billion) is lost to corruption”.

In massive illicit financial deals “trillions of dollars have left Africa”.

Many African regimes regard the US as a “fail-safe insurance policy for their survival”, believing that the “US and Western countries will always bail them out”.

It is a fact that many African regimes “avoid the demands of good governance, ignore the rule of law and commit gross violations of human rights”. Sound familiar?

The report states that African regimes “will behave differently if left to their own devices to deal with the consequences of a mismanaged economy”.

John