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The way forward for Africa is investment.

Well, no one gives aid to Zimbabwe through the Mugabe government.

The notion that aid can alleviate systemic poverty, and has done so, is a myth. Millions in Africa are poorer today because of aid; misery and poverty have not ended but increased. Aid has been, and continues to be, an unmitigated political, economic, and humanitarian disaster for most parts of the developing world.

In Africa today, we recognise that trade and investment, and not aid, are pillars of development.

With a foreign policy appropriately rooted in some sense of humanitarian decency, the Central African crisis will not be easily ignored by American policymakers. It screams for remedy.

And I think that Africa is making progress that the world needs to recognize and assist the continent to continue on that path.

Africa has no future.

We cannot do everything in Africa, but doing nothing is not an option.

Africa is the future.

Africa needs more funding to continue to fight all of those diseases. We are losing more than 1.3 million young children under the age of five every year because of malaria. We've already lost 25 million people to the pandemic of HIV-AIDS. More people are dying now from typhoid fever. Diabetes is on the rise.