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Bad news from Africa
And one problem is that the United States isn’t helping much
December 3, 2014 12:00 AM
By Dan Simpson / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
I don’t know which I find more depressing, what is happening in
Africa or America’s role, for the most part, in what is happening there.
There is much to look at.Meeting the challenges of the Ebola epidemic in Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and possibly Mali is way beyond the capacities of the governments of those countries. The people of each have been victim at one time or another of monstrous, self-serving, nation-looting rule, sometimes to the point of civil war. Their leaders have carried off whatever income their countries have produced, as opposed to building up health systems that might have helped them sustain the horrible blow inflicted by Ebola.
Liberia may be the worst, if for no other reason than that it has always hovered under the wing of the United States, its leaders doing pretty much whatever they liked to the country’s population, with the United States for the most part seeking only that the place not blow up and we get blamed for it.
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