last few days has jumped to light the issue of war looming in Ivory Coast.
It reminds us that there is a continent called Africa.
AFRICA, THE FORGOTTEN CONTINENT
In Africa, you can admire beautiful landscapes huge: from the majestic landscapes of the Sahara desert and the Kalahari, the South African coast, through the jungles of central African.
This variety of landscapes is home to an equivalent variety of wildlife and people.
In the lands of this continent saw its origin the human race and the modern man, we are all children of Africa. If the words of the biblical account, God created man from clay, this clay was clay Africa.
However, some children are very ungrateful, we have abandoned the land we were born, and quickly we have forgotten.
lie, we have forgotten its people, but we remember much of their wealth.
Much of the rivalry between ethnic groups in the continent, are promoting in the majors who want to exploit natural resources. There are many examples
. The most famous is perhaps that of coltan. Coltan is short for tall column-tantalite, two minerals that form a series of solid solution (alloy), from which niobium and tantalum are extracted, very tasty chemicals in the telecommunications industry for its microelectronics applications. Since the batteries of mobile devices, to the International Space Station, through missiles, PDAs, computers, ... need these valuable components.
The large deposits of Australia and Brazil where he got these two elements have been exhausted, and today, 80% of world reserves of these two resources are located in the area of \u200b\u200bCongo. Will happen conflicts of this region, such as the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, ... that have already claimed millions of innocent victims? Rhetorical question.
This wealth has prompted a number of multinational consortia that promote ethnic conflicts in these areas, in order to ensure control over large areas to meet their demands for coltan. After the fratricidal war, is disguised war between multinationals. That does not prevail any international law or even logic or morality. Only the nonsense, inhumanity, greed, and money seem to be right to roam. While in the West play the machines, millions of innocent victims, refugees, children ... do not look or even have the right to live. Not only is
Congo, if not all of Africa, in Sierra Leone and Angola, are conflict diamonds, valued in jewelry and laser technology, the real reason for the deaths of millions of person. In Sudan, Darfún region, the situation is so extreme, that after ethnic cleansing and slaughter, after the war of religions, lies in fact it is very regrettable, the struggle for water.
This year much of Africa has been devastated by locusts and drought, which has destroyed cereal crops that sustain. Pests that here could be reduced with little money, there have devastating effects, with no country of the North has moved a finger to help.
It is a continent plagued by AIDS. But AIDS in the West. AIDS in Africa is another. And while this, in South Africa to impose constraints that can not provide affordable drugs to its population, it is to prevent local companies to manufacture and distribute generic drugs at low cost. This promoted by large pharmaceutical companies, who are not willing to cede one iota of their pretensions and their despotic rule, even when it represents the loss of human life.
New diseases arise, not in the West come to be aware of them; diseases such as Buruli ulcer, which are being charged and millions of lives. Other well-known diseases such as cholera, dysentery, tuberculosis, continue to wreak havoc ....
All this leads to the devastating conclusion that Africa, unfortunately, no one cares.
Meanwhile, in the West using our computers, sending messages to cell phone, or watching on television the latest news from the tabloids. But this misunderstanding will end up costing us dearly. We can not live a long time a house, locked in our room without being bothered by the noise from the next room. We are doomed, for better or worse, to be confined in this little pale blue dot in the solar system, whether we are African or European. We are part of the same crew going aboard the same boat. The Port waterways, equally affect those of us on starboard. Someday, when climate change brings the tropical conditions at higher latitudes, we affect diseases that affect them. They know no borders. Someday, the African people will get tired, and obviously will rise.
But until that comes, today in Africa are dying of AIDS, wars, what is more sad, hunger and thirst. Meanwhile, the West remains oblivious. West looks away as if it did not go with him, that if not before putting weapons.
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