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Finally, reducing the presence of US tactical nuclear weapons in Europe would add to the concerns expressed by many European leaders about America’s long-term commitments to the continent.
The fly, first detected in 2004 in Mombasa on the Kenyan coast, has since swept across the continent, decimating mangoes and other crops and devastating livelihoods.
Democracy's march across the continent, and the formation of a single market across much of Europe, have created unprecedented stability, security, and prosperity.
No longer is the region regarded as America’s “backyard”; on the contrary, the continent has arguably never been so united and independent.
They urged the US to lift its embargo on Cuba, claiming that it had damaged relations with the rest of the continent, and to do more to combat drug use on its own turf, through education and social work, rather than supplying arms to fight the drug lords in Latin America – a battle that all acknowledged has been an utter failure.
A continent once afflicted by military takeovers has slowly but surely implanted stable democracies.
And the US continues to be the largest foreign investor on the continent.
This new reality also demands a different type of diplomacy – one that recognizes the diverse interests of the continent.
In no year has Africa, as a continent, achieved the 7% average growth rate required by the MDG’s.
Africa as a continent has the world’s second highest measure of income concentration.
On a continent where populations have suffered extensively from such crimes, the AU’s move might at first seem like an important step toward increasing accountability.
Only 6% of conventional reserves are in North America-roughly a ten-year supply for that continent.
Moreover, the perception that the EU’s internal squabbles had led it to squander a strategic opportunity would probably drive the US to accelerate its disengagement from the continent.
Across the continent, political divisions are deepening.
The situation of the 7-9 million Roma living on the continent deserves the urgent attention of government leaders as they shape the policies of an enlarged EU.
Roma are the continent's fastest growing and most vulnerable minority.
Boosting their prospects will be crucial to sustained prosperity on the continent, and will require implementing inclusive policies to ensure that Roma enjoy the post-transition benefits of open, free-market economies.
Simply put, the African media failed to reach beyond immediate borders and serve as a voice for the continent in its encounters with the world.
From Liberia to the Congo, the predicament of the African continent today demands that the press act not only as a watchdog, but as a goad.
It is to the media that the continent must look for an example of solidarity.
Helping leaders to imagine a life after power is one of the surest ways of ridding Africa of conflict and a great deal of corruption, and putting the continent firmly on the path to sustainable peace and development.
It is about uniting a continent.
This is the same false choice that African countries were told that they had to make during the Cold War, when the Soviet Union and the West, led by the United States, competed for exclusive influence across the continent.
Reducing African options to such a crude choice conjures the specter of a new “Great Game,” with foreign powers once again carving up the continent for their benefit.
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has been explicit about his country’s desire to form a progressive relationship with the continent, based on mutual respect, with a commitment to develop African communities.
Greater interest in the continent is the result of reforms that have emboldened foreign investors – from both East and West – and of Africa’s growing ability to get the best deal for its economy and people.
Fortunately, the opposite happened: federal revenues tripled under the impact of a rapid post-war reconstruction boom, and continued to grow rapidly, aided by the country’s ability to remain neutral while wars ravaged the European continent.
Otherwise, the continent will again be divided into rich and poor, into peoples living under democracy and those subjected to authoritarian regimes.
The basic set of European values formed by the spiritual and political history of the continent is, to my mind, clear.
These values mirror countless modern European experiences, including the fact that our continent is now a multi-cultural crossroads.
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