Monday, November 19, 2018

Unstable Africa

 Africa is the richest continent in the world, and even much richer than Europe if we are talking about natural resources. 30% of the mineral resources of the planet are in Africa, unfortunately, the continent can't utilize their resources, resulting in corruption, poverty, and slow development. Africa is very rich in oil and gas also, and many others. In Ghana and Mali, for example, there is gold (the third largest reserves in Africa), bauxite, iron ore, and phosphates. In 2010, the EU made a list of 14 strategic minerals, which are almost absent in Europe but available in China and Africa, attracting vultures to the continent.
Oil, uranium, gold, diamonds, cobalt, bauxite, iron ore, are some of the precious resources found in Africa. Besides, the continent also has biodiversity, which is still incredibly rich, despite ruthless exploitation.
It doesn't really make sense how rich Africa is, yet millions of people live in poverty due to many illicit reasons, such as fraud, embezzlement, and over-invoice, collectively deemed as corruption. African politics is not for the masses but for the politicians fighting to be in power. Europe and America media are fastinated by all the bad news about Africa, yet, they won't write of things such such as slavery, colonialism, Apartheid, and diseases which have affected the development of the continent.  
Africa's poverty drives mass departure of Africans in the search of greener pastures in Europe, causing the biggest immigration chaos throughout Europe, especially in Italy. According to United Nation's forecasts, the population of Africa will double amounting 2.5 billion people between 2016 and 2050. This is about the same number of the world's population during the era of the Second World War. The question is whether our planet will sustain such a population growth. However, it should be quite clear that migration is not the solution to these problems.
 Europe shamelessly robbed Africa during the colonial era. The Democratic Republic of the Congo was once the property of a lunatic king Leopold II of Belgium. Since after independence Belgium lost the country, Congo has never been stable. 

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