Can we?
I am not referring to emergency Aid but frequent Donor Aid.

Facts
1. Over the past four decades, aid to Africa quadrupled from around $11 billion to $44 billion.

2. According to a Wall Street Journal article published in 2009 and titled “Why foreign aid is hurting Africa”, money from rich countries has trapped many African nations in a cycle of corruption, slower economic growth, and poverty.

3.Most money in Swiss bank accounts is believed to be earnings from graft, especially kickbacks from Western firms to secure contracts in Africa, and stolen aid money.

4. “Aid flows destined to help the average African end up supporting bloated bureaucracies in the form of the poor-country governments.

5. The poor goverments have one thing in common-countries have in common- They appear on the regional top list of the Transparency International 2011 corruption index of African countries.

I love this example

Quote:

“Say, there is a mosquito net maker in small-town Africa,he employs 10 people who together manufacture 500 nets a week. Typically, these 10 employees support upward of 15 relatives each.

“A Western government-inspired programme generously supplies the affected region with 100,000 free mosquito nets. This promptly puts the mosquito net manufacturer out of business and now his 10 employees can no longer support their 150 dependents.”

In a couple of years, most of the donated nets will be torn and useless, but now there is no mosquito net maker to go to. They will have to get more aid. And African governments once again get to abdicate their responsibilities.

In a similar vein has been the approach to food aid, which historically has done little to support African

Read more here;http://www.nation.co.ke/Feature...2/-/1ayij0z/-/index.html

Most DEFINATELY the world cannot survive without africa's resources.

@qw, the world CAN survive without Africa, they used to before they found us.
Africa CAN survive without the world, we used to before they got here.
But we all know of the two, who would suffer more,to the core, without the other.Which should be a calling for us to put our house in order and stop bragging about having natural resources.
How many times can you DRILL a barrel of oil? ONCE!
How many times can you MAKE a phone/a car/medical equipment? OVER n OVER again.

until we export more than we import, we will keeping getting aid..i like the initiative here..read more

link

But u r correct. AIDS is big business in Africa.
Brings in lots of cash and and equal no.of deaths you know.
Its a perfect equilibrium. Truly making progress

Huh!?? Shun european markets? who will buy our fruits and flowers? The sudanese?

And what about the Asian market? Those fellows are driving everybody out of business.
At times I don't even understand these talks.