By Morton Abramowitz, Jonathan Kolieb
June 2007
Frustrated by the West’s failure to halt the slaughter in Sudan, Darfur advocacy groups are pinning their hopes on a country they see as genocide’s enabler in chief: China. But in pressuring an indifferent Beijing, activists are merely helping Western governments evade responsibility for a humanitarian crisis that they could do far more to stop.
China insists on ‘tied aid’ in Africa [FT.com]
By Jamil Anderlini
June 25 2007
The much-trumpeted $5bn China-Africa Development Fund, portrayed by Beijing as economic assistance, will be used to invest exclusively in Chinese enterprises and their projects in the continent.
Such policy of “tying” aid to purchasing goods and services from the donor country has been attacked by development experts as wasteful and inefficient, and most donor governments have been abandoning the practice
Africa: Experts Fret Over Blair's Legacy On Continent [allAfrica.com]
by Abimbola Akosile
27 June 2007
As Mr. Tony Blair, Prime Minister of United Kingdom bows out of office this week, analysts are wondering if his legacy for Africa's growth and development can be sustained by his successor, Mr. Gordon Brown.
Analysing the legacy in a discussion, Mr. Simon Maxwell, Director of the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), claimed trade talks are failing and aid volume to Africa is way below target.
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Charles Liu 2007.06.28. 01:10:08
Stuff like CIA traning and arming John Gahrang, and US-based Private Military Companies continuing provision of arms to Darfur rebels.
As an American I would like to see people compare our bloody hands with China's non-intervention policy.