... Rais wetu huyoooo South...!
MATTHEW LEE 06/11/11 07:45 AM ET
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LUSAKA, Zambia -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Saturday warned Africa of a creeping "new colonialism" from foreign investors and governments interested only in extracting the continent's natural resources to enrich themselves and not the African people.
Clinton said that African leaders must ensure that foreign projects are sustainable and benefit all their citizens, not only elites. A day earlier, she cautioned that China's massive investments and business interests in Africa need to be closely watched so that the African people are not taken advantage of.
"It is easy, and we saw that during colonial times, it is easy to come in, take out natural resources, pay off leaders and leave," Clinton said. "And when you leave, you don't leave much behind for the people who are there. We don't want to see a new colonialism in Africa."
"we don't want them to basically deal with just the top elites, and frankly too often pay for their concessions or their opportunities to invest."
Ujio wa mama huyu unamaanisha kuwa sasa marekani ina maslahi makubwa katika nchi hii hasa ya kiuchumi na hivyo tuangalie tutanufaikaje na sio rahisi kupingana na marekani na yeyote atakayejaribu kuwachallenge kwenye maslahi yao hawatamuacha.uswahili mtupu .. kati ya nchi nyingi za Africa alichagua TZ na nchi zingine mbili hivi ( ambayo ni heshima kubwa sana kwetu), halafu picha tunayoonyesha ni kwamba amekuwa ''snubbed''. Maana hata makamu nadhani hayuko nchini ..
huwa najiuliza sana kama haya yote uliyoyaandika ni ya kweli, hawa viongozi wetu ni binaadam wa aina gani? yani utafikili wao hawaishi tanzania, hata huwe na mali kiasi gani kuna raha gani wale unaoishi nao wakiwa wanateseka? hawafikirii vizazi vyao watakavyoviacha, yani ni viongozi wabinafsi kweli, hao wamarekani wanatoa hiyo miela yote na kuja kufuata hiyo uranium kwa ajili ya nchi yao, hivi kwanini miviongozi yetu haifanyi kitu kwa ajili ya nchi yao, watu wanaiba madini wanavyotaka wao sawa, hivi kama hizo ela mnazopata na mlizopata hazijawatosha ni ngapi zitawatosha, ach wananiuzi sanaUkitaka kujuwa uhusuano wa safari ya Hilary Clinton na Symbion basi inabidi umjue chairman wa Symbion - Ambassador Joe Wilson. Huyu bwana ni former US Diplomat na niseme ni former State Department guru, lakini uguru wake uko kwenye ushushushu, tena elite. Both yeye na mke wake infact, na wamekuwa wanafanya kazi (kama balozi) kwenye nchi zenye 'madini'.
Joe analijuwa bara la Africa vilivyo na hasa nchi kama DRC! Huko nyuma nilipojaribu kuelezea ujio wa Symbion na madini na ushushu wa Joe Wilson kuna mwanaJF mmoja alisema ni blah blah, sasa Hilary Clinton anakuja kukagua mitambo! really? Mitambo yenyewe ni ya thamani gani mpaka Secretary of State aje all the way kuikaguwa? Jibu ni URANIUM. Na Joe ni mzuri sana wa kukusanya 'intelligensia ya Uranium.
Hata hivyo nasikia tutapata vyandarua vya mbu by August kwa hiyo tegemea press conference inayosema ni kwa jinsi gani malaria is the biggest killer.Mnakumbuka 'Malaria haikubaliki' campaign- halafu mwishoni wanasema - 'ujumbe huu umeletwa kwenye kwa hisani ya ....... na watu wa marekani'? halafu mara baada ya Obama kuingia ikulu, mkuu wetu wa kaya alikuwa ndio rais wa kwanza toka Africa kwenda kuonana naye (obama). Wametoka mbali na sisi na sasa hivi I can tell wametukamata vilivyo.
Anakuja kufanya nini?
MATTHEW LEE 06/11/11 07:45 AM ET
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LUSAKA, Zambia -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Saturday warned Africa of a creeping "new colonialism" from foreign investors and governments interested only in extracting the continent's natural resources to enrich themselves and not the African people.
Clinton said that African leaders must ensure that foreign projects are sustainable and benefit all their citizens, not only elites. A day earlier, she cautioned that China's massive investments and business interests in Africa need to be closely watched so that the African people are not taken advantage of.
"It is easy, and we saw that during colonial times, it is easy to come in, take out natural resources, pay off leaders and leave," Clinton said. "And when you leave, you don't leave much behind for the people who are there. We don't want to see a new colonialism in Africa."
Clinton said the United States didn't want foreign governments and investors to fail in Africa, but they should also give back to the local communities.
"We want them to do well, but also we want them to do good," she said.
"We don't want them to undermine good governance, we don't want them to basically deal with just the top elites, and frankly too often pay for their concessions or their opportunities to invest."
Clinton said that American development aid and infrastructure projects come with good governance conditions and that the Obama administration is interested in Africa and the African people. Their success, she said, is in the long-term interest of both the African people and the U.S.
She spoke in a pan-African television interview in the Zambian capital. Her interview followed the handover of a U.S. built pediatric hospital in Lusaka to the Zambian government.
Earlier, at the inaugural meeting of the U.S.-Zambia Chamber of Commerce, Clinton laid out the U.S. strategy for helping Africa.
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"We want a relationship of partnership not patronage, of sustainability, not quick fixes," she said. "We want to establish a strong foundation to attract new investment, open new businesses ... create more paychecks, and do so within the context of a positive ethic of corporate responsibility."
"We think it's essential that we have an idea going in that doing well is not in any way a contradiction of doing good," she said.
Clinton is the first secretary of state to visit Zambia since Henry Kissinger came in 1976 to lay out the Ford administration's policy for southern Africa as revolts against white minority rule in South Africa and what was then Rhodesia were intensifying.
Clinton, on the first leg of a three-nation tour of Africa, arrived in Zambia from the United Arab Emirates, where she attended an international conference on Libya. After Zambia, she heads to Tanzania and Ethiopia before returning to Washington next week.
Economic terrorism at its bestAnakuja kufanya nini?