To Africa
February 12th, 2008 at 12:07 pm | posted by Aaron.BanksPresident Bush leaves Friday for a week-long trip to Africa. In Rwanda, Benin, Tanzania, Ghana and Liberia, he’ll see the positive impact of the programs ONE members have lobbied for. To make sure the next president is committed to working with Africa to end extreme poverty and disease, we’ve launched a petition to the presidential candidates asking them to pledge to visit Africa in their first term. You can sign it here: http://www.one.org/visitafrica
You can also check out John McKinnon’s preview of the trip in the Wall Street Journal: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120251366075155091.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
President Bush starts a victory lap across Africa next week, celebrating his little-noticed but successful fights there against AIDS and malaria. But he also will be running hard to avoid the shadow of a growing number of political crises and controversies in the region.
As Mr. Bush enters his final 12 months in office, advocates are praising his campaign to battle disease and promote economic growth in poor countries, especially in Africa. It has emerged as a bright spot in a foreign-policy legacy marred by controversy over the Iraq war.
Bono, the Irish rock star turned global gadfly, once said that Mr. Bush has done “an incredible job” with his AIDS campaign. As it nears the end of its first five years, it has put 1.4 million people on life-sustaining therapies at a cost to the U.S. of more than $15 billion. The Bono-affiliated ONE campaign broadened its praise last month, saying Mr. Bush deserves credit for his fights against malaria and extreme poverty in the region. The White House hopes the trip will lock in congressional support for his initiatives, particularly as he is seeking a doubling of funding for combating AIDS to $30 billion over the next five years.
February 14th, 2008 at 9:07 am
Africa needs true friends with real actions.Africa, for quite some time now, has been bedevilled by people… who are engaged by some people(american) to create poverty in their own african countries through effect coups d’Etat and massive financial fraud.Since the end of apartheid in South Africa,the southafrican parliament has passed the Foreign Military Assistance Act, 1998 which Prohibits Mercenary Activity by any person from or residing in that republic and also the Financial Intelligence Centres Act 28 of 2001, also referred to as F.I.C.A. In terms of F.I.C.A., all accountable institutions (such as banks) have specific duties to help prevent and combat money laundering , which is the abuse of financial systems in order to hide and/or disguise the proceeds of crime.