DR.Ahmed Hany:They Kill Africans, Don’t They?

Africa is the second largest continent and its forests are considered the second earth lung after amazon.

Most of its inhabitants are poor and they contributed to 3% of harmful gas emissions yet they are most exposed to the impacts of the climate changes.

Most of its countries have resources that are consumed by the multinational companies of the rich countries leaving minute benefits to the poor people.

Poverty is the first pollutant.

Poor people use cool or woods from trees to get energy by open incineration.

The waste products are left as there is no the means of collecting and recycling them with resultant spread of diseases by mosquitoes and other insects.

The under nutrition due to shortage of food or famines beats the African children causing many diseases.

The main causes of frequent famines are the drought, desertification, terrorism that obliges farmers to flee, shortage of the international supplies, floods and epidemics. Besides, there is corruption in distributing food and some of the international aids are stolen.

Most villagers in Africa cut trees and burn them as a fuel.

They have no other means, however if any international force that sponsors terrorists supplied them with the proper infrastructure instead, they can use the biological waste to have biogas that is less polluting.

Alongside pollution, the droughts that frequently beat their land lead deforestation and desertification.

During rainy season the floods destroy villages and leave the poor Africans homeless.

There are no siphons to preserve the water.

What is desperately needed is the construction of the infrastructure for preserving water and modern methods of irrigation.

Developing these regions costs less than sponsoring terrorism however the presence of terrorist gangs makes easy access for the international forces to control the mines.

Developing the poor Africans and educating them is a future threat for the global forces as the educated citizens may try to control their resources to get the maximum benefits out of them.

It is not only the terrorism that kills the villagers but also the civil wars between tribes that tears the countries apart preventing the sustainable development of wide areas of the continent.

These tribes get the arms from global forces and their leaders do not care about the lives of their people. When we look at the African map we find that the hot spots of terrorism are where mines are present.

In Niger there is the Uranium mines, in Nigeria petrol and gas, and in both countries Boko-Haram the ISIS like group kills people who live there.

In Somali coast where there is huge gas reserve the terrorists fight citizen on the land and pirates safeguard the sea gas for the international companies until they are ready to explore them.

It is ridiculous that the forces have military bases near these areas and they claim that they are there to fight terrorism.

In Sub-Saharan region there are American, French, Chinese and Russian military bases near the resources but they do limited military operations against Boko-Haram the main terrorist group.

Diseases kill Africans and their children with trivial aid from the international community.

Insect born diseases viral or bacterial nearly are present everywhere in the continent.

The international pharmaceutical companies develop drugs for the diseases when the Western people contract the disease.

And usually these drugs and vaccines are expensive that most African countries cannot purchase them.

Many experimental viruses like AIDS came from military biological labs in Africa. Ebola caused two major epidemics.

Vaccines and drugs are present but the international companies produced little of them and the prices is so high that the poor countries cannot buy them.

Cholera is endemic is some areas and although the drugs are cheap, there is shortage of them in the stricken areas.

Few African citizens got vaccinated against Covid and nearly no recent drugs are present in the Sub-Saharan areas.

If the big countries are sincere in aiding Africa they can provide the African with hospitals.

The cost of running hospitals are much less than spending on military bases.

What Africa needs is security, technology transfer and sustainable development.

Any development would be a meaningless effort if the continent did not defeat terrorism and did serious action to deal with the causes of the civilian wars.

Global powers will not help to settle the civilian wars or to take serious steps to end terrorism as the status quo serves their cause to control the resources away from their owners.

The African-African cooperation through the several organizations may help but that needs the sincere will and of the politicians of the continent.

Countries of North Africa with South Africa can help to resolve some of the security problems.

Technology transfer may be the second step or it may go parallel to the political solutions.

To start with the agriculture to help famers Egypt can provide help in modern irrigation systems, biogas ovens, construction of modern villages and some industrializations and in the health sector.

Other countries of the north or South Africa may provide help in other sectors.

However these projects need sponsoring and financial support from international donors and rich countries.

Some advanced countries like China fired rockets with chemical substance to condense clouds and initiate rain falls on lands to save its crops from drought.

The Africans can ask China and other countries that acquire environmental solutions to cooperate.

To have long term plans the sponsors should have profits as well as the Africans.

Solar power is a profitable field for the international companies as the workforce is cheap and the advancement in the equipment may reduce the cost.

The international cooperation is not a charity work.

But the Africans should stand against plans of the global powers who emitted most of the harmful gases and they want the Africans who emitted only 3% of them to pay much of the cost.

The Conclusion:

Africa is a rich continent with resources but the political situation designed by the global forces with the help of the corrupted politicians and terrorist gangs prevent the Africans from enjoying their wealth

. Regardless of the number of the African civilians who die or get diseased the global forces try to control these resources.

Some of the solutions could be successful through African-African cooperation but others need frank confrontation during delegation with the international organizations and big forces.