Posted on 04/23/2017 10:35:46 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Ethiopia, Sunday -- Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has urged African leaders to stop “ideological meandering”. Leaders, he said, should thoroughly discuss and distill positions which can help their people transform and develop using their natural resources.
Museveni added that focus should be on home-based solutions and self-reliance. He said new US President Donald Trump’s “America First” policies will jolt Africans into the reality of their situation.
“I love Trump. I love that man Trump because that man has told you that he is not your uncle. And I think it is good. For those Africans who feel orphaned, am sorry for them. Let’s come back to our continent and mind our own affairs,” Museveni said.
He was speaking Saturday at a discussion on “Managing Natural Resources In Africa: Challenges and Prospects,” at the ongoing sixth High Level Forum on security in Africa in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia.
The president spoke passionately about processing Africa’s minerals from Africa to create jobs and get more value from their resources, illustrating his point by saying it was “foolish to give your neighbor firewood when you don’t have firewood in your house”.
“We have a lot of Uranium. Canadians came and said they wanted to take to Canada to process it from there and I said it will stay in the ground until we build own nuclear power station because am not a fool to give firewood to my neighbor when I don’t have firewood in my house,” he said.
President Museveni who disagreed with some of the presenters who said education was the solution to solving Africa’s problems said policy mistakes by both technocrats and political leaders have led to various problems in Africa.
Our President certainly has that effect!
Go President Trump!
I love winning!
Is this the president/dictator that Trump threatened with arrest and that called Trump like Hitler ?
No, I think that was the terrorist General Kony:
http://www.blackstarnews.com/global-politics/africa/ugandans-react-to-trump%E2%80%99s-skeptical-position-on-lra-leader
We now have an alpha male as CIC and not a metrosexual of dubious beginnings.
“I love Trump. I love that man Trump because that man has told you that he is not your uncle. And I think it is good. For those Africans who feel orphaned, am sorry for them. Let’s come back to our continent and mind our own affairs,” Museveni said.
How was Uganda lucky enough to get a leader like this?
When Museveni first came to power back in 1986 or so, he said:
“We have to stop blaming Colonialism for all our problems. We have been independent for 25 years, yet my wife cannot go to the shops and buy a pin made in Uganda, for her sewing. We must do things for ourselves.
Why do Europe and America have to send us food? I’ve been in Europe (he was educated in East Germany) and they have snow on the ground 6 months of the year. If we try, we can grow three crops a year in Uganda. Why are they sending food to us?”
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