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Central African Republic leader blames West's 'plundering' of Africa for migrant crisis
AFP ^ | Sep 21 | AFP

Posted on 09/21/2023 9:49:31 AM PDT by RandFan

The head of the Central African Republic on Thursday accused the West of triggering a migration crisis by pillaging Africa's natural resources through slavery and colonization.

Taking the podium at the United Nations General Assembly, Faustin-Archange Touadera addressed the migrant crisis on the Italian island of Lampedusa, where thousands of African migrants arrived last week, overwhelming the local community and causing a major headache for the European Union.

"These young people who symbolize the present and the future of our continent are desperately seeking to join the countries of the European continent in search of an El Dorado," Touadera said.

"This escalation of the migrant crisis is one of the appalling consequences of the plundering of natural resources of countries made poor by slavery, colonization and Western imperialism, terrorism and internal armed conflicts," he added.

Western governments and aid organizations have poured billions of dollars into African countries suffering from hunger, armed conflict and other crises over the years, but critics say delivery of the aid is often hampered by corruption from local governments and militants

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1 posted on 09/21/2023 9:49:31 AM PDT by RandFan
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Wait until they meet the Chinese.


2 posted on 09/21/2023 9:50:55 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Tijeras_Slim

Yep!


3 posted on 09/21/2023 9:52:09 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear ("Equity" = "All animals are equal. Some animals are more equal than others.")
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How come none of those migrants are the sons or relatives of African ruling elites?

Ditto with all the grift countries south of the US former-border


4 posted on 09/21/2023 9:52:28 AM PDT by silverleaf (Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out” —David Horowitz)
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To: RandFan
Central African Republic leader blames West's 'plundering' of Africa for migrant crisis

Let's be clear - the migrant crisis is caused by Leftist policies and Leftist refusal to enforce borders, all driven by Leftist neuroses and guilt.

When we look through history, it's amazing how much of a role mental illness has played in man-made disasters, and mental illness drives Leftist thinking.
5 posted on 09/21/2023 9:52:36 AM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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Oh, good Lord, another one wanting to line up at the reparations trough.


6 posted on 09/21/2023 9:54:57 AM PDT by econjack
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You can have the disgruntled offspring of all your countrymen that the slave traders bought from your ancestors.....


7 posted on 09/21/2023 9:56:56 AM PDT by Iron Munro (Sun Tzu: An evil man will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over the ashes)
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To: RandFan

Don’t people realize that when they whine victimhood, they are admitting “We are too weak or too dumb to have prevented it”?


8 posted on 09/21/2023 9:57:35 AM PDT by Migraine
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Why isn’t Singapore lining up for reparations?
It was a British colony too!


9 posted on 09/21/2023 9:57:52 AM PDT by Maine Mariner
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Note to African countries - if you can’t feed them don’t breed them. No more aid without promises to introduce mandatory family planning.


10 posted on 09/21/2023 10:01:31 AM PDT by Clemenza
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More BS anti-colonialism. Where would Africa be without the West? Even if the so-called abuses of the Belgians and German colonialists, supposedly the worst of the lot, were doubly as bad as leftists historians have distorted, Africa is a better shithole than before colonialism.


11 posted on 09/21/2023 10:02:36 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA (The Delay Trump’s trial, delay. Elect Trump President. Trump pardons himself. )
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Didn’t all the colonial powers in Africa leave more than 50 years ago? They have had self rule since then. Corrupt leadership leads to ruin. How sad that we are joining them in the corrupt leadership category


12 posted on 09/21/2023 10:08:02 AM PDT by Freee-dame
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Yes, mostly over 50 years ago. Here’s a rarely told truth, many African colonies wanted colonial rule to continue because they knew they were unable to govern themselves.


13 posted on 09/21/2023 10:14:21 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA (The Delay Trump’s trial, delay. Elect Trump President. Trump pardons himself. )
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Note to African countries - if you can’t feed them don’t breed them. No more aid without promises to introduce mandatory family planning.

No more aid, period. Fifty+ years of aid to Africa is what's caused this overpopulation to begin with. All that bleeding-heart altruism has come back to bite us on the [hinder].

Would that all the conspiracy theories about Bill Gates sterilizing African populations were true.

14 posted on 09/21/2023 10:19:53 AM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: ConservativeInPA

Did you ever see “Empire of Dust”? It’s about a Chinese man sent to Africa to build roads using local labor. It’s an interesting look at post-colonial Africa.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOkrYW3vF0o


15 posted on 09/21/2023 10:21:30 AM PDT by Venkman
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Be Africa. 60 million acres of uncultivated arable land. Nearly 60% of the world’s total. Starve. Flee to Europe by the millions for food.


16 posted on 09/21/2023 10:26:17 AM PDT by nonliberal (Z.)
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To: RandFan

We stole their knowledge of how to fly like birds around the pyramids they built in Egypt.


17 posted on 09/21/2023 10:37:48 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Venkman

I watched that. The thing that I remember most about it was the look of sheer frustration and disappointment on the Chinese guy’s face.


18 posted on 09/21/2023 10:57:00 AM PDT by SIDENET
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How many taxpayer dollars have been funneled into that nation, and the others? Many, many, many!!!


19 posted on 09/21/2023 10:58:12 AM PDT by elpadre (Ca)
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The average IQ in sub-Saharan Africa is less than 65. The "migrants" have IQs barely above what we in the West call "retarded". These are children in adult bodies. Only one thing drives them: the want for stuff. Sport shoes, pornography, free money and housing, White women, etc. etc.

20 posted on 09/21/2023 11:16:45 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie
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