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07/12/2008: "West 'ignores' other Zimbabwe"

Madrid - Equatorial Guinea's only opposition legislator said in an interview published on Friday the situation in his country is worse than in Zimbabwe, but Western nations turn a blind eye because of its oil reserves.

"The situation is worse than in Zimbabwe," Placido Mico Abogo said of the west African country, ruled with an iron fist by President Teodoro Obiang Nguema.

"The opposition has no political presence. There are no unions or professional associations. There is no media that escapes the government's control," he told Spanish newspaper El Pais.

"In Zimbabwe, there are independent tribunals. In our case, the judges have been appointed by Obiang and many belong to his party, even though that is illegal," said the secretary-general of the Convergence for Social Democracy Party (CPDS).

[ Russia, China and the rest of Africa recognise that picking on Zimbabwe is both hypocritical and self-serving. Here is some more evidence supporting that view. The country has gone from being the bread basket of Africa to being a basket case - but that is typical of Third World countries and there is no reason to single out Mugabe as a despot. ]

http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/News/0,,2-11-1447_2356058,00.html

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on Sunday, July 13th, Dental Plan said

One ex-South African White had an oddball idea for fixing all of Africa's problems: A giant wall around the whole continent, all the guns and bombs in the world for everyone inside, and then the last man left standing does the world a favor and kills himself. Funny, sure, but the best thing that outsiders can do for that continent is nothing at all. Colonialism set it up and "Independence" is knocking it down, hard.