Eurocrats will be watching developments in the UK because there are still many bust banks across the continent in need of extra funds from somewhere.
Didymus Mutasa, ZANU's foreign-affairs secretary, once said the country would be better off with only half its current population, "with our own people who support the liberation struggle".A continent in need of leadershipSub-Saharan Africa (hereafter, "Africa") is the world's poorest continent: half of its 700m people subsist on 65 US cents or less a day.
Problem: For a continent so in need of quick, affordable emergency relief, not to mention so riddled with unemployment, there's a cruel irony about the provenance of emergency supplies.
It deserves to succeed--if only because Africa, though by no means one big basket-case, is indeed the world's poorest continent, badly in need of change.New initiatives for Africa are wearyingly familiar.
That Africa is poor, disease ridden, war stricken, and a dictator-ran continent in dire need of charity.
"It does not make sense that we prioritise cars with four tyres, but we ignore normal human beings whose legs don't have spare parts," she adds, before mentioning climate change, another harbinger of change for the continent: "In Africa we need to get it straight: people first, cars second".
The sight of Korea and Japan struggling in Brazil then strolling in Australia is not what the continent needs in January, nor what those countries want in the long-term.
"As a continent, we need to start investing in stronger mechanisms of support systems, of insurance, so that crop loss can be looked at as something that is manageable at the farm level and at the country level," Kalibata said.
As a European, I believe that the protection of people in need remains a core value of the Continent's history and traditions.
The EU, though in need of reform, seeks the same across the continent.
He adds that in most of the rest of the continent, firms need to dig their own wells and generate their own electricity.
