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The continent appeared in continuous turmoil.
President Clinton’s trip to Africa highlighted to Americans -- usually most neglectful of Africa except when in deep crisis -- the dramatic changes underway on the continent.
Internet connections in Ghana, Uganda, Zimbabwe, and many other parts of the continent are connecting universities, businesses, and even distant villages to global information and markets.
Third, the advanced countries should work with Africa to mobilize the international scientific community to address the critical problems of malaria, HIV/Aids in Africa, and other tropical infectious diseases that pose horrendous and distinctive challenges for the continent.
The government aspired to play a constructive role across Africa, act as a spokesman for Third-World interests at the UN and elsewhere, and promote an end to the plethora of conflicts bedeviling the continent.
NEPAD, the New Partnership for Africa’s Development, an organization designed to promote decent and appropriate standards of economic and political development throughout the continent, has been at the core of this policy.
Even in South Africa, the wealthiest country on the continent, millions of people lack basics.
On the other hand, political spillovers are strong and waves of change regularly cross borders, reaching the entire continent.
And, despite the absence of evidence that any given country or continent does not have LGBT people (and ample evidence to the contrary), it is an assumption that an increasing number of African leaders have embraced.
But, so far, progress toward the abolition of Europe’s remaining trade barriers has been slow, and signs of resurgent economic nationalism are spreading throughout the continent.
So it goes across the continent.
But, to date, many factors, including poor profit projections and political uncertainty, have limited such financing for infrastructure projects on the continent.
Companies from the private sector are also profitably financing projects on the continent.
Not only are these projects, which are slowly appearing elsewhere on the continent, more profitable than most financial market investments; they are also literally paving the way for future growth.
Rather than using Europe to project French ideas across the continent, France needs to develop a culture of genuine power-sharing and compromise.
But Europe’s stability and commitment to economic growth across the continent require that these interests be satisfied without economic pressure or unilateral intervention.
Although the US has expanded its military capabilities in Europe in recent years, it has previously regarded the continent primarily as a platform for operations in other theaters.
Rapid expansion of agricultural activity is requiring more and more water all across the continent.
But most countries on the continent fall into the “counterpart” category, with 24 of the bottom 30 countries in the Prosperity Index located in sub-Saharan Africa.
Many imagine a continent consumed by poverty, war, desperation, corruption and failure.
European unity arose from a desire to see conflict on the continent end.
More ambitiously, the NEPAD initiative demonstrates a new commitment by the continent's leaders to realistic joint action on a regional basis.
Policy initiatives such as debt reduction, domestic and foreign productive investment, and OECD countries opening themselves to African products, which would undoubtedly improve the continent's economic prospects, can only be pushed when benefits are clearly identified.
The tools that the continent needs to achieve inclusive and sustainable industrial development are available.
And neo-Nazi groups, such as Golden Dawn in Greece and Jobbik in Hungary, have made gains that were once unthinkable, just 70 years after their ideological forebears brought decimation to the continent.
The EU, built as a means of reconciling and unifying a fractured continent, could find itself under the control of those who are determined to compromise its very foundations.
Asia is, after all, the only continent without such a regime to complement international institutions.
Rather than including Africa in wider discussions about global trade architecture, climate change, and the future of work, the G20 has largely limited its engagement with the continent to addressing narrower development issues.
When international engagement with Africa is confined to the silo of development, the continent is effectively reduced to a set of problems for external actors to solve.
For its part, Argentina has not launched an Africa initiative of its own; but it has devoted attention to improving cooperation with the continent via people-to-people diplomacy.
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