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[AfricaRealities] 3 African leaders cancel trip to U.S. over Ebola outbreak; Obama still plans summit

 

3 African leaders cancel trip to U.S. over Ebola outbreak; Obama still plans summit
 
The U.S. issued a travel warning Thursday for three African countries hit by an outbreak of deadly Ebola, but the White House said President Obama will go forward with a summit in Washington next week featuring African leaders.
The State Department issued the travel warning for Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea, the three countries hit hardest by the worst Ebola outbreak in history.
But White House press secretary Josh Earnest said Mr. Obama has no plans "at this point" to alter or cancel the summit schedule, set for Monday through Wednesday. The White House is billing the conference as the largest gathering of African leaders ever in Washington, including some representatives from the nations where the contagion is spreading.
Mr. Earnest said the Centers for Disease Control has determined there is "no significant risk in the United States" from the Ebola outbreak.
The president of Sierra Leone, Ernest Bai Koroma, has canceled his trip to Washington due to the deadly Ebola outbreak in his country. He said in a statement online that he is canceling his planned trip to Washington as he declared a health emergency in his country. The leaders of Guinea and Liberia also reportedly are canceling their plans to attend the summit.
Mr. Koroma is implementing measures aimed at tackling the Ebola virus, including quarantines and a ban on most public meetings.
The Ebola outbreak has killed more than 729 people across West Africa and has infected two U.S. health care workers.
"Fellow citizens, this is a national fight, and it behooves all of us to stand together to promote the truth about this deadly disease," Mr. Koroma said. "Ebola is real, and we must stop its transmission."
Rep. Alan Grayson, Florida Democrat, has asked the Obama administration to restrict travel into the country from anyone who lives or has recently visited the three countries suffering from the breakout.
Mr. Grayson, a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, wants the State Department to ban citizens of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone from entering the U.S., including any travelers who have visited those countries in the past 90 days.
Among those officials invited to attend the summit are the leaders of Guinea and Liberia, which also are experiencing the Ebola outbreak.
Mr. Schultz said the White House is continuing to monitor the Ebola crisis closely. He said the Centers for Disease Control has said "this is not a risk to the U.S. at this time."
On Wednesday, the Peace Corps announced it was pulling all 340 volunteers from Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia in response to the outbreak of the highly contagious disease, which kills up to 90 percent of those infected.
Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has announced that certain borders of the country will be closed until the contagion is under control.
A Liberian health official told CBS News the Ebola outbreak is now beyond the control of its government.
 

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[AfricaRealities] Fw: *DHR* OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA / by EUGENE DIOMI NDONGALA-English version

 



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OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA / by EUGENE DIOMI NDONGALA

par FreeDiomi le 31 juillet 2014

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OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA

Kinshasa, 7/27/2014
Mr. Président,
                      I am writing to you in the name of freedom of speech, civil and political freedoms, as universal values flouted in Democratic Republic of Congo.
                      For this purpose, I want to submit to your attention the case of political prisoners languishing at this time in  "death houses", which are  the congolese prisons, because of their political opinions.
                       I would like to express my profound concern regarding the will of congolese government to amend the actual Constitution in order to extend the number of term of the outgoing president
                       With this in mind, I ask you to take immediate actions according to your last message to  United States Congress, concerning Congo Kinshasa, in order to protect the peace and right of political alternation as the fundamental element of a true democracy.
                     The last presidential and legislative election that occurred in Congo in November 2011, have been characterized by fraud and lack of credibility of the results published by the electoral commission.
                     That is why  it is legitimate to ask the following question regarding the legal capacity of a political majority based on a massive electoral fraud :
                            " Can the current political majority in DRC  claim  Legality, Legitimacy as well as  Opportunity to amend the actual Constitution?"
                            I believe that the current conjectural majority lack of Legality, Legitimacy and even Opportunity to amend the fundamental law in order to sustain in power.
                             It is necessary that a real national debate take place on the limits of power after questionable and contested elections as well as the necessity to respect the fundamental rights of Congolese citizens who continue to be victims of this unfair government.
                             A debate that your administration should support, in the respect of the resolution 2098/ 2013 of CSNU, to promote peace an democracy in DRC, those values that have a real importance for your administration.   You have shown it  in your last message to the Congress concerning DRC and his  subsequent Order.
                             It would be impossible to talk about democracy and human rights in Congo without mentioning the issue of political prisoners, a category of Congolese citizens to which I belong because of my claim of election transparency in DRC.
                            The tentative to obstruct my freedom of movement,   whereas I was an elected deputy of the city of Kinshasa in the ranks of the political opposition, my illegal invalidation as national deputy, the violation of all my rights in order to neutralize me through a parody of trial that were unfair and disrespectful of the rights of defence, all these persecutions have led to a rogue sentence that constitutes a violation of the obligations to which the DRC is subject under the international law.
                                Additionally, I am subject to physical and moral tortures and the will of my torturers to place my family in a situation of "civil death".
                               Unfortunately, the false accusations against me and my imprisonment are not isolated cases in Congo – Kinshasa.
                               Under the Kabila government, a large number of lawsuits have been brought against political opponents, defenders of human rights and intrusive investigation by the security services are systematically  ordered to identify sources and to track journalists who denounces sensitive information  concerning their country.
                                This obsessive tendency of the Kabila government to repress political opponents and its aversion to any public manifestation promoted by the opposition, is undemocratic and cannot continue at the present era, when Africa needs a free Congo.
                                In order to allow the emergence  of a New Congo in Central Africa region, a Congo that we want respectful of individual and collective freedoms and able to take advantage of its enormous economic potentialities, Congolese people need the rule of law in their country.
                                  I believe that the adoption of repressive measures against individual freedoms as well as the willingness to  detain  political opponents,  constitute a political strategy that is dangerous for instable Great Lakes equilibriums, violating the commitment signed in Addis Ababa Global Accord, to promote democratic process and reconciliation in DRC.
                                   You are certainly aware that necessary and urgent reforms of Justice, Army, and Security Services are deliberately forgotten by the kabila regime, which persists in its decadent inertia,  in order to conceal its reprehensible acts, bad governance, general corruption and abuse of human rights.
                                    Similarly, all those who denounce the indifference of the actual regime regarding real issues of Congolese citizen such as their extreme and widespread poverty, their lack of information,  are considered as enemies to destroy.
                                     I find it extremely worrying that the current Congolese government continues to use security emergencies to justify deaths of unarmed citizens who are scarified in the name of  repressive stability, as in December 30,  2013 and in July 22,  2014 at Kinshasa.
                                     The United States support human rights in order to establish good relations among states and among peoples.

 Consequently, I pray your administration to :

  •  Support the release of political prisoners unjustly detained because of false records assembled by the security services to keep them away from the political scene;
  •  Support the political Alternation in DRC;
  • Support the holding of a national debate about the resumption of democratic process in DRC;
  • Continue to protect human rights as well as civil and political freedoms of Congolese citizens, and this in the name of international conventions (the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as well as the International Agreement on Civil and Political Rights).
  • Support the adoption by the American congress of sanctions against all those who conspire against democratic process in DRC and the inalienable right of Congolese citizens to vote   as well as to elect their leaders by free elections.
In my case, I am ready to pay –  and I am already paying –  the price to live one day in a free society.
Respectfully yours,
Eugène DIOMI NDONGALA,
Chairman of Christian Democratic Party ,
Political Prisoner.

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The U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit: Final Thoughts

The U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit: Final Thoughts


Editor’s Note: The U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit blog series is a collection of posts discussing efforts to strengthen ties between the United States and Africa ahead of the first continent-wide summit. On August 4, Brookings will host “The Game Has Changed: The New Landscape for Innovation and Business in Africa,” at which these themes and more will be explored by prominent experts. Click here to register for the event.
The first U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit is nearly upon us. Hopefully, the African leaders are already flying to Washington, D.C. with summit strategies in hand. Leading up to next week’s summit, Brookings experts have analyzed the many policy facets surrounding the United States’ strategy for regional engagement. Based on our comparison of the most recent Africa summits with the European Union, China and Japan, we recommend that the U.S. summit be designed to create a sustainable policy tool that is inclusive and accountable. Indeed, in his speech to the Ghanaian parliament in Accra in 2009 President Obama mentioned a need for a true partnership “grounded in mutual responsibility and mutual respect.”
Africa is a region that is increasingly gaining mutual respect from world partners. The real gross domestic product (GDP) in sub-Saharan Africa grew at a much faster rate than the GDP for the rest of the world over the past decade. Africa has made great strides in reducing poverty and mortality indicators—reflected in the proposed U.S. official development assistance (ODA) budget for fiscal year 2015, where the priorities for ODA have shifted from health and education to peace, security, governance and economic growth. The U.S. has increased its military presence in Africa and there is demand for foreign intervention to halt terrorism across the region; however, Americans are fatigued by interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq. Thus, the summit can play a role to help Americans overcome their military lassitude to focus on governance, peace and security priorities in Africa.
In his Accra speech, Obama mentioned that the United States can do more to promote trade and investment in African countries. U.S. investors face an evolving landscape of foreign investment in Africa though total foreign direct investment (FDI) to Africa is still relatively low compared with world FDI totals in Asia. Now, China and other emerging market countries are driving growth in FDI to Africa. Meanwhile, the United States has a small presence of trade facilitation support on the ground in Africa compared to China. However, the U.S. trade preferences extended under the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) have produced increased trade and investment in some African industries, such as textiles. The summit will also house the U.S. AGOA forum, a yearly event during which African leaders and U.S. officials review enhancements for the trade preference program and discuss a more cohesive strategy for AGOA beyond 2015.
As stated by Brookings Africa Growth Initiative Director Mwangi Kimenyi, it is necessary to define the parameters of a successful U.S.-Africa summit prior to the event. One indicator of particular importance to the Africa Growth Initiative is fruitful participation of Africa’s leaders in the summit. The U.S.-Africa summit is an unprecedented opportunity to transform U.S. strategy toward Africa into mutual U.S.-Africa strategy.
If you wish to engage with AGI experts and continue the dialogue surrounding the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit, please watch the live webcast of the Brookings Africa Growth Initiative’s public event, “The Game Has Changed: The New Landscape for Innovation and Business in Africa,” on Monday, August 4. You can also follow the conversation on Twitter using#AfricaSummit.
http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/africa-in-focus/posts/2014/07/31-us-africa-leaders-summit-sy



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The Coming US-Africa Summit

The Coming US-Africa Summit

Abba Mahmood
— Jul 31, 2014 | 4 Comments
In the coming week, America’s president Barrack Obama will be hosting African heads of state and leaders in Washington, DC. Obama is the first African-American to be elected president of the United States. This is his second and final term in office and he has been able to visit only about four countries in Africa since becoming president. Thus, the US-Africa Summit this week will afford him the opportunity to interact with as many African leaders from as many countries as possible. In this regard, America is copying Japan, China, India and other emerging powers who have since institutionalized their engagements with Africa as a whole periodically.
Africa has played key roles throughout history. African resources helped to build most European countries through the outright theft of these resources during colonialism. African slaves helped to build the new world, the Americas. Today, Africa is the last frontier where all established and emerging powers are running to for development. Over 60 per cent of the total arable land in the world is in Africa. African mineral resources are helping to keep the industries of the world moving. But Africa, the richest continent, is paradoxically also the poorest.
For Africa, this US Summit is coming against the background of mass poverty, proliferation of small arms and light weapons, ethnic and religious hostilities as well as leadership crisis in the three major African countries – Nigeria, South Africa and Egypt – among others. For the US, the summit is coming against the background of US failure to stabilize Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan, among others, which has discredited American leadership, has shattered the concept of an expanding Europe as a major global player, and has reignited Russian geopolitical aspirations in especially central Europe.
Complicating official perceptions and tempering public expectations at the end of the Cold War was the fact that the world America inherited as its ward on the eve of the 21st century was neither historically at ease nor truly at peace. Since then, experiences have taught us that even the world’s paramount superpower can go badly astray and endanger its own primacy if its strategy is misguided and its understanding of the world is faulty, as discerned by many careful analysts.
In reality, historical speculation cannot be the basis for specific policy recommendations given changed circumstances, unexpected events and novel challenges. And the Bush II administration, just before Obama, had chosen to propagate an atmosphere of national and even global fear in the face of an inherently unclear and unpredictable threat. America embarked upon what it called war against terrorism even though terrorism is not an enemy but a technique of warfare – political intimidation through the killing of unarmed non-combatants.
The a-historical character of America’s misadventure in Iraq further highlighted the limitations of a strategy primarily dependent on force. Compounding the dilemmas of a war waged by an administration lacking historical perspective is the psychological and even visual identification of American conduct with Israeli practices. The American actions in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria and around the world have so far divided its allies, united its enemies and created opportunities for its rivals and ill- wishers as many discerning analysts have concluded.
Moreover, America has turned democracy into a subversive tool for destabilizing the status quo. It has subscribed to the wrong notion that electoral democracy could be imposed from outside. The American policymakers have failed to understand that American political tutelage is not only unwelcome to most but bitterly resented by many. Greater coherence in national policy calls for correcting this widespread bad impression. America must remember that loss of soft power reduces “hard power”. As a result of this misunderstanding and misreading of many global events by the US, America is losing friends and losing credibility all over the world.
The foundation of the US power is the dollar. That was why former American president Richard Nixon said “The dollar is our currency and your problem”, because of the primacy of the dollar in international trade. Consequently, the developing countries in general and Africa in particular are exporting capital to the developed countries. Thus, if Africa is to develop, the Lucas paradox — “capital flow from South to North” — has to be arrested and discouraged. In the other words, capital flight has to stop and all African resources should remain in Africa to help develop the continent with its own resources and not grants and aid.
The IMF and World Bank have pushed for deregulation, for free market economies, for free movement of capital or what is collectively called the Washington consensus. We now know that these are the reasons for the global financial crisis and for it affecting the world economy. The impact has been enormous and has contributed to the de-industrialization of Africa. In any case, the Washington consensus is not applied in Washington. And, in a global economy, there is need for institutions to help manage the process of globalization because, after all, markets do not regulate themselves.
The financial, environmental, food and energy crisis require new institutional mechanism or framework to manage. This is a crisis we cannot get out of by leaving it to market forces. Intervention by governments is necessary because there is need for political decisions. Nowadays, there is a consensus that government has to play a more strategic role in economic management, because markets are not only imperfect but require regulation to function well regardless of how powerful the invisible hands of the market may be.
We, as Africans, must not shy away from arriving at the obvious conclusion that, regardless of his African roots, Obama has an American mandate. Thus, we must not expect much from the US because of Obama, if we are to be realistic. And if the US under Obama is to really help, the best way is to help Africa recover its resources looted over the years by corrupt leaders and their external collaborators and repatriate these to Africa for development. If these resources were repatriated to this continent, Africa would not need any help from outside.
In fact, most of the aid from the developed world to Africa is targeted at the social sector, not production. Similarly, growth is not mentioned in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs); only social issues. Thus, the MDG is not a comprehensive development agenda as there is no mention of technology transfer, employment generation, investments and value addition. These are what will spur growth and development which are the issues the ordinary people of Africa want addressed during the Africa-US Summit in Washington next week if Obama is serious about African peace, prosperity and sustainable development. History is on the side of the oppressed.
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[AfricaRealities] Fw: Institutional racism in the UK banking sector

 





It is all about discrimination on ground of race. Institutional racism in the UK is everywhere.It is part of British culture.


HSBC closes some Muslim groups' accounts


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HSBC bank has written to Finsbury Park Mosque and other Muslim organisations in the UK to tell them that their accounts will be closed.
The reason given in some cases was that to continue providing services would be outside the bank's "risk appetite".
The wife and teenage children of a man who runs a London based Islamic think tank have also been contacted.
HSBC said decisions to close accounts were "absolutely not based on race or religion".
"We do not discuss relationships we may or may not have with a customer, nor confirm whether an individual or business is, or has been a customer.
"Discrimination against customers on grounds of race or religion is immoral, unacceptable and illegal, and HSBC has comprehensive rules and policies in place to ensure race or religion are never factors in banking decisions."
The bank said it was "applying a programme of strategic assessments to all of its businesses" after a $1.9bn fine in 2012 over poor money-laundering controls.
"As a result of these ongoing reviews, we have exited relationships with business and personal customers in over 70 countries.
"The services we provide to charities are no exception to this global review," the bank added.
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They have put us now in a very, very difficult situation - this is the only account we have"
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Finsbury Park Mosque in north London was written to by HSBC on 22 July.
The only reason given for the intention to close its account was that "the provision of banking services… now falls outside of our risk appetite".
In the letter, the bank notifies the treasurer of the mosque that it will close the account on 22 September.
Khalid Oumar, one of the trustees of the mosque, questioned the motives behind the letters.
"The letters that have been sent and the letters that we received do not give any reason why the accounts were closed in the first place," he said.
"That has led us to believe that the only reason this has happened is because of an Islamophobic campaign targeting Muslim charities in the UK."
'Astonishing'
The mosque's chairman Mohammed Kozbar told the BBC: "The bank didn't even contact us beforehand. Didn't give us a chance even to address [their] concerns.
"For us it is astonishing - we are a charity operating in the UK, all our operations are here in the UK and we don't transfer any money out of the UK. All our operations are funded from funds within the UK."
Until 2005, the mosque was run by Abu Hamza, who in May this year was convicted of terrorism offences in the United States.
"The positive work we have done since taking over over from Abu Hamza to change the image of the mosque, there is nothing really that can explain [HSBC's decision]," says Mr Kozbar.
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It is unsettling. I am not used to being addressed in those terms. It's like I have done something wrong"
Anas Al Tikriti
"They have put us now in a very, very difficult situation - this is the only account we have."
Mr Kozbar says HSBC's decision could have negative repercussions for the bank.
"We are sure that our community will be frustrated, and might consider closing their accounts themselves with HSBC if the bank doesn't reopen our account, or at least give us an explanation."
Jeremy Corbyn, the local MP for Finsbury Park, says he has worked with the mosque ever since it was built.
"Over the past 10 years, it has developed into a superb example of a community mosque supporting local people and providing facilities for all faiths if they need it.
"I am shocked and appalled at the decision of HSBC."
'Unsettling'
Anas Al TikritiMr Al Tikriti says his children are "confused" by HSBC's decision
Anas Al Tikriti was born in Baghdad but has lived in the UK for several decades. His family has also received letters. He runs the Cordoba Foundation, a think tank on Islamic issues set up in 2005 in order to address, he says, the relationship between Europe and the Middle East.
He, his wife and his sons aged 16 and 12 all received separate letters this week from HSBC informing them that their accounts would be closed in September. This time, no reason was given.
Mr Al Tikriti says he has banked with HSBC since the 1980s and has rarely been overdrawn.
"It is unsettling. I am not used to being addressed in those terms. It's like I have done something wrong. The involvement of my family disturbs me. Why the entire family?"
"I can only speculate - and I wish someone from the bank could explain [why the accounts were closed]. The organisations are mainly charities and the link is that many of them if not all of them are vocal on the issue of Palestine."
"It would be a great shame if that was true. As I'm left to speculate, that's the only reason I can come to."
His think tank, the Cordoba Foundation, which also banks with HSBC, was also told that its account will close, with an almost identical letter to that sent to the Finsbury Park Mosque, and dated the same day.
'Alternative arrangements'
Ummah Welfare trust, based in Bolton, has distributed £70m to projects in 20 countries. It has had a presence in Gaza for 10 years.
In a letter, also dated 22 July, HSBC gave Ummah the same reason for closing its account that it had given to the Finsbury Park Mosque - that "provision of banking services now falls outside our risk appetite".
It then gave the charity two months' notice of its decision to close the trust's accounts.
"You will need to make alternative banking arrangements, as we are not prepared to open another account for you," the letter continues.
Mohammed Ahmad, who runs Ummah, says it is a dream customer for a bank and always in credit.
He asked HSBC in a meeting why the accounts were closing, but says the bank's representative gave them no answer.
Mr Ahmad says that they "have always tried to work within a legal framework and accommodate banks, if, for example, there was an issue with sanctions".
Mr Ahmad says he thinks HSBC has made its decision because of its work in Gaza, where he says Ummah provides "ambulances, food aid, medical aid, and grants."
"We make sure we go out of the way to work with organisations that are non-partisan. What we do now is we do a check on Thomson Reuters and make sure that there is no link whatsoever with blacklisted organisations. We don't want to damage our relief efforts. We have tried our best to be non-partisan as much as possible."
A government official the BBC spoke to said they did not believe this was the result of government action but reflected a decision the bank had taken itself based on its own risk analysis.
In December 2012, HSBC had to pay US authorities $1.9bn (£1.2bn) in a settlement over money laundering, the largest paid in such a case. It was alleged to have helped launder money belonging to drug cartels and states under US sanctions.
In August last year, it was reported that HSBC asked more than 40 embassies, consulates and High Commissions in the UK to close their accounts. At the time, the bank said "HSBC has been applying a rolling programme of "five filter" assessments to all its businesses since May 2011, and our services for embassies are no exception."
The Charities Commission has confirmed that it is not investigating any of the organisations involved and says that if the charities don't have a relationship with a bank it could harm public trust in their work.
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