African Union nations will miss Gaddafi's generosity
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“The AU will surely miss one of its agile proponents and financiers, who was committed to making it an active continental body that would negotiate and trade with other continents on the same level,” said Dr Adams Oloo, a political science lecturer at the University of Nairobi.
“In the absence of Gaddafi and Libya’s generous contributions, there will be a slowdown in some of the projects that had been lined up. I don’t think a new Libyan leader will have the same enthusiasm, because Gaddafi had ruled Libya for four decades and he was now ready to lead Africa,” he added.
Libya’s contribution to the AU budget is estimated to have been about 12 per cent. Apart from voluntarily sponsoring ministerial and expert meetings, Gaddafi was personally paying annual fees on behalf of some African counties, especially those from West Africa who have difficulties in meeting their financial obligations to the continental body.
Gaddafi was also a major contributor to AU projects, whose budget stands at an average of $300 million annually. In the 2011 budget, the organisation voted for $256.8 million, a 2.5 per cent increase compared with 2010. The budget consisted of $112.4 million for operations and $144.4 million for programmes.
Since February 2011, the AU has issued four strongly worded statements urging Nato to suspend its bombing campaign while a negotiated solution that locked out Gaddafi from a further term was sought.
The AU had tasked the presidents of South Africa, Uganda, Mali, Mauritania and Equatorial Guinea with the task of finding such a solution — only for their efforts to be ignored by Nato and the rebels.
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maasanova
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The truth is that Qaddafi was trying to unite at least some parts of Africa economically and the Western elite parasites would have nothing of the sort. The parasites wanted to gold, the water the oil and to isolate Libya's influence in the region. And now they will reduce the standard of living for Libyans, who will be under the control of the parasites.
They funded a bunch of Libyan turncoats, terrorists, and probably many well-meaning Libyans who who were sent in as shock troops to destabalize the nation while NATO, US, France and the rest of the allied forces bombed their country to pieces.
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maasanova
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Richard_Wyatt
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There are no victors in war only survivors.
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Richard_Wyatt
