You Wont Believe Why Africa Chose RUSSIA Over FRANCE And The UNITED STATES

You Wont Believe Why Africa Chose RUSSIA Over FRANCE And The UNITED STATES

On June 26, 2001, the African Union (AU) made of 55 member states was formed with Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, as its headquarters. The union was officially established on 9 July 2002 as a successor to the Organization of African Unity (OAU). In July 2004, the African Union's Pan-African Parliament (PAP) was relocated to Midrand in South Africa, but the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights remained in Addis Ababa.
When it comes to minerals, Africa is believed to hold 90% of the world's cobalt, 90% of its platinum, 50% of its gold, 98% of its chromium, 70% of its tantalite, 64% of its manganese and one-third of its uranium. The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has 70% of the world's Colton, a mineral used in the production of tantalum capacitors for electronic devices such as cell phones. The DRC also has more than 30% of the world's diamond reserves. Guinea is the world's largest exporter of bauxite. As the growth in Africa has been driven mainly by services and not manufacturing or agriculture, it has been growth without jobs and without reduction in poverty levels. In fact, the food security crisis of 2008 which took place on the heels of the global financial crisis pushed 100 million people into food insecurity.
In recent years, the People's Republic of China has built increasingly stronger ties with African nations and is Africa's largest trading partner. In 2007, Chinese companies invested a total of US$1 billion in Africa.
A Harvard University study led by Professor Calestous Juma showed that Africa could feed itself by making the transition from importer to self-sufficiency.

Let’s have a back story of how Africa got colonized. The "Scramble for Africa" between 1870 and 1914 was a significant period of European imperialism in Africa that ended with almost all of Africa, and its natural resources, claimed as colonies by European powers, who raced to secure as much land as possible while avoiding conflict amongst themselves. The partition of Africa was confirmed at the Berlin Conference of 1885, without regard for the existing political and social structures. Almost all the pre-colonial states of Africa lost their sovereignty. Exceptions being Liberia, which had been settled in the early 19th century by formerly enslaved African-Americans and was recognized as independent by the United States in 1862, but was viewed by European powers as being in the United States' sphere of influence, and Ethiopia, which won its independence at the Battle of Adwa but was later occupied by Italy in 1936. Britain and France had the largest holdings, but Germany, Spain, Italy, Belgium and Portugal also had colonies. By 1977, 50 of 54 African countries had gained independence from European colonial powers.

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