Should the Western countries keep feeding and supporting African countries.?

Answer 1

No certain African countries have become to dependant on aid every year hundreds of million's are given to these countries and the following year they are back for more.There is something seriously wrong with the governments in these countries

Answer 2

Should you give food and shelter to a starving beggar? There is no legal compulsion in the matter and still you do it. Why? Becayse if fellow-feeling and thankgiving to god."There, but for the grade of god you may have been there and he in your position. Similarly rich nations turn their noses up and walk away at seeing the plight of the African nations. Nobody can find fault with them. But as a matter of pure common sense it is advisable to feed them and help them in other ways to come up to a stage when they can stand on their own legs. A viable nation can also be a good customer. Should you leave a man frozen by biting cold on the street and climb down from the air-conditioned interior of your car and try to revive him? You could always do the former and drive on but wheels of your mind wiould always go in reverse gear and drive the car backward.

Answer 3

A very good question, yes, on the humanitarian aspect, but when you take a closer look at the problem, the West should take a hard line with the respective governments first. As in most humanitarian catastrophes, the (military) government are 9 times out of 10 to blame.

Answer 4

All well and good if it's organised, but by doing so are we not perpetuating the famine, by making the countries dependant on aid? Also there is an argument that little of the aid gets to those who need it, the majority ending up being sold on the black market.

Maybe supprt them to support themselves. But you then have to consider the whole fair trade / free trade / protectionism thing too.

Answer 5

Some say European Colonization is responsible for the problems in Africa.It didn't help,but ancient tribal hatreds and different religions are the problem.What can we do about these.Who knows,We have to keep trying though, I guess.Kofi Annan is an African.I always wondered how his family does.

Answer 6

In a way they should but first they should get rid of the governments there to get rid of the cruelty and starvation. People like mogabi etc. he fat and well but the people dont even have water to drink. I dont condone, accept or support war in any way but if blair and bush got rid of saddam why cant they do the same in africa ? Because they dont have oil like iraq. Yes feed the children.

Answer 7

feeding a country doesnt help anything ... all they do is breed faster and compound the problem ... and then we fund both sides of a civil war that our secret services instigated ... imo its complicated but its an overall plan to bring africa among other places into line with the globalists' agendas of western countries and the money powers that be ..

Answer 8

Yes, until they're ready to stand on their own feet. However, there should be legitimate independent monitoring of expenditure with public records and the West should take a tougher stand against dictators and leaders who line their pockets at the expense of a starving nation. That grates me.

Answer 9

By preventing them from paying the consequences of their incompetent and selfish behavior, the West has guaranteed that future African generations won't have a chance. Tough love.

Answer 10

Imagine for a second that you are from one of those African countries, what would you want the outcome of this discussion to be?

It's easy for us to sit in the West in warm houses, clean water, clothes, the ability to find work and have careers, but for those less fortunate.......what do they have but faith in mankind?