Your view on poverty in African countries

Would be better off if every country stayed out of other countries business and focused on your own issues.Anyways what africa in general needs is better living conditions and educate their people and for the most part.Also getting other countries that are not african out of the country and making their own business deals to make profit to boost the economy by selling to other countries by using their natural resources like the gold mines,diamond mines,metals and such and become a industrial nation to pay their debts and boost their economy and stop relying on other countries to solve their problems.

I fully support it!

Stop sending them food, money, resources, infrastructure and make them take care of themselves. Stop coming to their rescue when they stub their toe, as they expect the World to come and solve their problems at every hiccup. The situation in Haiti is a great example. What happened? They sat on their hands, pillaged and raped their own communities until the rest of the World came in and fixed their country - and even killed and raped some of those people. African for Africans, let them take care of their own.

As long as they don´t get the simple maths in their head that more kids = even less food for everybody, nothing will help.

If I had the option, I would take over the entire country by force. This would take a lot of money but not a gigantic amount.

As soon as that was done I would roll out a English carbon-copy legal system (with some well thought out adjustments for the different culture), centralize all continental resources into a single corporation that manages all diamond, gold, oil etc mining and refining operations. Once these are done announce internationally that the trade in illegal diamonds/blood diamonds has ended, inevitably lowering price but also raising consumer demand, particularly in the tech world (read "Blingtronics" at National Geographic).

Then I'd organise massive farming co-operatives (New methods of gathering water from the air are becoming promising in Spain, for example), move as many people out of the region-locked Rift Basin as I could. Start to look at Geothermal, solar or hydroelectric power, large farming operations with a budget directly funded by the export of massive natural resources.

Long term I'd be aiming for tourism in the now-Westernised United African Republic (or whatever), export of electricity over the northern borders into the EU, clean electricity that is from solar power and probably massive education drives.

Totally unreasonable to do in practice but I think it could work. Just like the whole world; if everyone shut up and put me in charge everything would be fine.

This is their problem. Instead of developing like other nations, they focused more on destroying each other (warlords, etc.). Now they're screwed and in any strategy game would be completely annihilated by some Korean. I'd use a more socialistic method like China to get it back on its feet. Capitalism only works when you have people with the ability to work on their own. African nations seem to lack that at this point in time, but should be granted it once they reach a level of economic independence.

But what do I know? I'm just a bunny.

I am not aware of the politics in that region, so i cannot speak for them. However i do know that if, just for once, everyone tried to help each other and stopped caring for how much money is in their own pockets, any problem such as this one could be solved easily.

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The majority of the population doesn't give a shit. Most of those "charities" are shady and even the legit ones if you look only a % of what you donate actually goes to the people because they are a business too, they have expenses. It's just all fucked up with greed.

The people themselves are the problem mostly, always has been always will be. You can drag a horse to water but you cannot force it to drink. It is basically the outsiders that have a problem with it.

I'd kill 95% of the population and spread the wealth between the rest. Poverty fucking solved.

inb4 racism. Death and destruction is my solution to everything.

Africa can rot as far as I'm concerned. They said no to colonisation thinking they could do just as well on their own. Joke's on them.

The more you send them money and ressources the more they are dependant on foreign support. We should just let them on their own, I actually think they would eventually be better off without us helping them.

I find it sick that people and governments throw away billions of dollars in Sub-Saharan Africa, just so the people there can eat and drink without having to do anything about it, while you guys don't give the slightest shit about the misery in your own country. Hypocrisy at its finest.

Anyway we are 7 billion humans on this planet already, when will this stop ?

Can we just close this thread? As far as I can see it even violates this part of the rules: Please avoid creating topics for political discussion.

I wish I could say I care but I don't like to lie. I have my own problems.

what is sad is some of those countries are filthy rich, oil, diamonds, gold, etc... you name it, and corruption only creates more hunger. this world is really wasted...

having said that I have already sent clothes in good condition anyway, more than once. just hope the money converted to food goes to those who really need it, read: not the military which have that bad habit to steal it when launched by parachutes!

Capitalism + corrupt government = Africa.

Do nothing. Maintain status quo. Obey.

Sigh...firstworldproblems

Stop all aid, then use the money that would otherwise be going into aid on ripping the entire continent up from its foundations and sending the landmass into space. Suddenly there would be no poverty, no wars, no corruption and no more atrocities being committed by and against the people of Africa. Problem 'solved'.

I think that if people actually cared about the shit thats going on there (and im not talking about the reatarded Kony thing) then that wouldnt happen. Dont be hipocrates you dont give a fuck about ppl starving, so live with it. Or keep crying while no one does anything, thats as usefull as facebook humanitarian spam.

i like to eat shoe laces

capitalism, britian did more to end world poverty than all world aid combined when they took control of hong kong

Africa's problems cannot be solved fully until corruption is eradicated.