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Dear
visitor and international investor,
If
this is your first visit to AFRICABIZ
monthly on-line issue - The
ultimate newsletter on trading and investing in 48 sub-Saharan
African countries - I warmly welcome you.
If you are a regular and faithful reader, welcome
back.
So, we have seen it all now; the doomsday didn't
show up! The bug didn't bite as feared; only few glitches
around the world; even Africa has done well contrary
to the prediction of specialists.
What is the lesson? Was it a hyped affair or was
it that the preparation to avoid the doomsday was perfectly
implemented and coordinated worldwide?
I personally opt for the second
alternative; the bell was sounded long in advance and
preparation well performed to win the war against the
bug.
That is a blatant proof that solutions
can be found on a worldwide basis to solve or eradicate
problems that otherwise may turn out to be serious obstacles
to the prosperity of the entire humanity.
At the beginning of this new millennium two events
occurred which are very important for the development
of the African continent:
Vice-president
Al Gore of the United States of America urged other
nations to consider the AIDS epidemic a true threat
to peace in Africa and make it a priority on the world's
security agenda.
 "The
heart of the security agenda is protecting lives, and
we now know that the number of people who will die of
AIDS in the first decade of the 21st century will rival
the number that died in all the wars in all the decades
of the 20th century," Vice-President Al Gore said.
"We tend to think of a threat to security in
terms of war and peace" Gore - on Monday January
10 - told the United Nations Security Council in the
first speech ever by a U.S. vice president to the 15-member
body. "Yet no one can doubt
that the havoc wreaked and the toll exacted by HIV/AIDS
do threaten our security...This meeting demands of us
that we see security through a new and wider prism,
and forever after, think about it according to a new,
more expansive definition." he added.
These are tremendous news directly linked to the
harmonious development of the African continent; for
the following reasons:
A - The
toppled Ivorian regime of President Henri Konan Belie
initiated and persisted on the implementation of a nationalistic
policy based on the concept of "Ivoirité"
- only are eligible to the highest governmental positions
in Ivory
Coast those born from parents who are both born
Ivorian - which consequence will be a disastrous debase
of the whole West Africa region.
Now,
African and international investors can breath in deep
relieve as the new mixt military / civil regime in charge
of transitional administration of Ivory
Coast is erasing these
controversial laws related to the nationalistic concept
of Ivoirité and is taking measures to reassure
all neighboring countries citizens living on Ivory
Coast territory.
B - AIDS
is heavily detrimental to the development of Africa;
AIDS has devastated the economic and social fabric of
Africa, taxing already poverty-stricken health systems,
robbing countries of their most productive members:
Source:
http://www.unaids.org/
Now that HIV / AIDS is recognized
as a threat to security by the international community
led by the United States of America, let's hope that
a coordinated effort like the one engineered against
the Y2K bug will be established to help:
-
organizing
research work worldwide to find adequate and affordable
medicine against this fatal legacy of past millennium.
- providing
substantial financial assistance to African countries
to increase their global infrastructure for fighting
the disease.
These
above mentioned two events are portent of great hope
for the stability and better development of the African
continent. They are good news for investors.
Please visit AFRICABIZ
DISCUSSION BOARD and express your opinion.
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Many thanks for dropping by and see you here next
month.
Dr. B.M. Quenum
Editor
of AFRICABIZ
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