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What is the danger if the industrialized world withdraws all help? Senegalese President Abdou Diouf has warned that allowing Africa to fall apart could lead to a population surge toward Europe and the U.S. Perhaps. On the other hand, neglecting Africa carries no immediate, urgent threat to the rest of the world. Black Africa has no nuclear powers. Why pour in more money to be misspent or rerouted to private Swiss accounts...
...divisive outcome was perhaps inevitable. Many of the African delegates had arrived anticipating the "tangible, measurable, manageable decisions" demanded by the forum chairman, President Abdou Diouf of Senegal. Western delegates, on the other hand, had expected a freewheeling discussion of medium- and long-term strategies that would have no bottom line. Ray Love of the U.S. Agency for International Development defined the session's goal as "a clear agreement between the Africans and the donors on the key problems and key priorities for investment...
...their meters and cruise all day for payment in dollars. No wonder: the black market pays up to 1,000 Mozambican meticais to the dollar, compared with the official exchange rate of 42. "To Africa's sickness, pestilence and disease, add corruption," says Senegal's President Abdou Diouf. "It is endemic to this continent...
...will not cut off Egypt without a dime. But they are not likely to be as generous as they were in 1977, for example, when they reportedly provided Cairo with around $1 billion in aid. "We deal on the basis of principles, not emotions," says Saudi Information Minister Mohamed Abdou Yamani. "No matter what has happened, our relations with Egypt remain the same." A Saudi newspaper editor in Jidda is more blunt. "Sure, we will let the Egyptians attack us and insult us," he says. "Then they will send us a letter demanding to know why the check is late...
Many of the attacks against Nasser involve his brutal repression of political dissent within Egypt. Publisher Ibrahim Abdou recently completed his third anti-Nasser book; in it he calls Nasser's prisons "more inhumane than Hitler...