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TahlibaBiko · (#10 (**permalink**))

COLTRANE wrote:

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As we all know this year UK takes over as the the chair of G8 surely they wont wipe out all of Africas debt relief but I believe if we want we could we can do something about it.

In light of existing analysis on the problems facing Africa, the range of previous political declarations from African Governments themselves, the range of existing – and still unfulfilled – promises of industrialised countries, and the way the UK and EU have ignored African governments in the WTO

the plight of many African countries is not due to a lack of research or understanding. In fact, the analysis of Africa’s problems is already well developed and a wide range of progressive solutions for many of Africa’s problems has already been proposed. What is lacking is political will in the industrialised world to make good on existing commitments and make use of this wealth of knowledge and the strength of feeling in Africa in favour of lasting and radical change.

African governments have the political space to use alternative development policies – including the kind of policies we in the West used to develop - and are not forced into inappropriate ‘one-size fits-all’ free market economic policy models;
International action to address the commodity crisis, including some form of supply control to stabilise prices;
The domestic policies and activities of industrialised countries do not undermine sustainable development efforts in Africa (eg, agricultural export subsidies, tariff escalation, greenhouse gas emissions);
The operations of industrialised country based multinational companies in Africa are effectively regulated internationally and by home country governments;
African governments have fair representation in international institutions (eg, World Trade Organisation, World Bank and IMF);
African countries have sufficient resources to achieve development (eg, debt cancellation and aid) in order to reverse the net outflow of financial resources from the developing to the developed world;
African people are helped to combat corruption through fostering political transparency and national democratic processes, not through forcing African countries to reduce government intervention in the economy.

But if one looks closely will find out that most of these debt movements all you get is causes of problems in Africa and few solutions but what I believe is we can bring on our views and I believe if we do enough reserch we can start with letters drafted from here in blacknet then for those who dont have time can just copy it and paste it in word and then address it to our local MP'S for a start,and I am sure since they want our votes they will listen to us..I still have hopes that we can still influence things and i will be more than ready to provide info on how .

more info and views are welcome..

So good it as to be repeated