Rais Kikwete alivyozungumza Umoja wa Mataifa

Nimependa alivyoongea Rais Kikwete huko kwenye Umoja wa Mataifa. Lakini angeongeza kuwa nchi zilizoendelea hasa Marekani zimejengwa kiasi kikubwa na watu wenye asili ya Afrika walioibwa kutoka kwao na kuzalimishwa kufanya kazi (utumwa). Waliteswa ile mbaya huko nchi inajengwa wakati hali Afrika ilizorota shauri ya kupoteza watu, kuchomwa moto vijiji na maovu mengine katika jina la kukamata watumwa. Hivyo ni wajibu wao kusaidia Afrika.

Na wasilete excuse eti utumwa ulitokea hapo zamani za kale. Bado wanakula matunda ya mababu na mabibi zetu!

Kwa habari zaidi za utumwa Marekani someni:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_United_States

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Aid to Africa historical duty, not charity

2008-09-24
By Guardian Correspondent, New York


President Jakaya Kikwete yesterday told the developed nations that it is their historic duty and moral obligation to help Africa. He said the help should not be considered as a charity.

President Kikwete made the statement at a high level meeting on Africa`s development needs held at the United Nations offices in New York.

``I would like to express Africa`s disappointment at the failure of the developed nations to honour their commitments to provide resources to deal with the challenges of Africa`s development. It is their historic duty; it is a moral obligation to help the needy in Africa. It is not charity,`` the chairman of the African Union said.

Kikwete said that development required high amounts of resources which Africa lacked, unfortunately because of its low levels of development.

``Africa has no sufficient resources to pull itself out of the poverty trap,`` he said, adding, ``The good thing is that all of us, in the continent and in the international community, recognise the question of Africa?s acute resource constraint. We also know that African governments have been taking measures to tackle their development challenges using the little resources available.``

Kikwete said the international community had been generous enough to assist African nations with resources to compliment their efforts, although the resources being committed and being made available are not sufficient to lift Africa out of the poverty trap quickly.

The AU head further pointed out that a lot of resources promised by the developed countries were not provided to needy Africans on time.

He recalled the Monterrey Consensus adopted by heads of state and government in March 2002, saying the consensus provided a key framework for financing development.

``We, in Africa, saw the adoption of the consensus as an important step in scaling up efforts to mobilise domestic and external resources for our development and that of other needy developing nations on this planet,`` Kikwete said.

?It is only prudent that, as we elevate Africa`s development agenda as a matter of global concern, we take stock as to where we are on the implementation of the Monterey Consensus and other decisions taken at different international fora,`` he added.

The AU chairperson said Africans were appreciative of several efforts that had been made in recent years to address the challenges of financing the continent`s development needs.

``These efforts are reflected in the 2005 World Summit Outcome, the 2005 Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, and the 2005 G-8 Gleneagles Summit Declaration``, he said.

President Kikwete commended the G-8 countries for increasingly paying more attention to development issues affecting Africa, stressing that all these efforts had added momentum to commitments made by the world class leaders in the Monterrey Consensus.

``We in Africa are concerned at the persistent gap between what has been promised and what has been delivered. Collectively, the G8 are badly off track with their development assistance promises to Africa,`` he said.

He however, acknowledged that in total, G8 assistance to sub-Saharan Africa has increased by only USD 2.3 billion since 2004, when it should have increased by USD 5.4 billion over that period.

?If current trends continue, African countries will not be able to mobilise the resources required to finance the public investments critical to achieving the MDGs.

Now is the time, for friends of Africa in the developed world to walk the talk.

Not doing so now may be too late, as far as meeting the 2015 targets is concerned,? President Kikwete said.

SOURCE: Guardian