Libya and Africa: After Gaddafi!

The removal of Gadaffi in Libya has it's advantages to others and also it raises some serious questions about how Libya will move on from here. We are all aware that NATO led/backed invasions and removal of governments in various countries has never been for the interests of the people but of the NATO member states' capitalistic gains. As one friend in twitter recently kept it, "NATO is not a charity organisation!'

No matter what US, UK, France and others say about what real motivated them into another costly war the reality will always remain that it was an important war for oil gains. We have worst democratic problems in countries such as Somalia, Myanmar and North Korea, why haven't they do something about it? The answer is only one and that is they is not much to gain from them. It is the saddest truth. So when they saw Tunisia and Egypt true revolutions of the people by the people to the people, they grabbed the opportunity and fueled the minority Libya revolution.With the help of african-disunity as the time of colonialism, again they won it. Because despite Libya under Muammar Gaddafi doing a lot for Libya and Africa continent development still only one country was able to stand up and speak the truth, and that was South Africa.

So the UN was lied to by NATO, the war was fought by the 'rebels' hand in hand with NATO, and now Gaddafi is out, what's next?

I pray we see a peaceful Libya that will be able to continue flourishing and 'stand out for Africa continent' as before[I doubt that], and also to continue its positive economic growth. I pray what happened in Democratic Republic of Congo, not to happen in Libya. There should be no room for back-door financing of various groups to encourage dis-stability while millions of oil gallons are stolen just like blood diamonds!!

There should not come a day that people of Libya will ask themselves, 'What we have done?'.

God Bless Libya,

God Bless Africa!

MBEKI:AFRICA HAS LOST FAITH IN THE UN!

On March 22nd and April 4th I posted articles speaking against the way the western governments have taken part in Libya crisis. More than anything its the way things are handled by the security council under the influence of what we may call NATO top members.

Africa has always been treated as a continent with no voice in international forums, and where it is given a chance to speak-its views are not given seriousness they deserve. I have always believe one of the things encouraging this situation is the way our leaders and AU keeping quiet even when we can say Africa has been mistreated and sovereignty of its members abused.

As we still count the cost of that habit, I am proud of what South Africa has been doing recently. South Africa has shown a good stand against various issues were Africa has been mistreated. President Jacob Zuma has strongly speak against NATO involvement in Libya and now we have a former president, Thabo Mbeki doing so. And more than anything is that he has been very explicit in his words. Easy to understand and direct to the point.

My best moments from his interview includes the following;

"As Africans, we need to look at ourselves and say what it is we need to do to defend our interests. The question we need to ask ourselves is: why are we so quiet? What happened in Libya might very well be a precursor of what might happen in another country. I think that all of us need to consider this matter, because this is a major disaster.

"We can't say that we can't stop these Western powers from acting in the way that they have been acting because they will do it again tomorrow. I think we can, provided that we act and they can see that if they take this kind of action, they are going to meet the resistance of the entire African continent.

Read more about his analysis of the situation at http://www.businesslive.co.za aricle and Africanoutlookonline.com article