Rainyday, I apologise and stand corrected.
sherib, why should she have resigned? She got what she wanted and overseas aid was not cut on her watch.
On the subject of trade in general does no one have a problem with the fact that without the tariffs that contribute to keeping Africa poor there would be no agricultural sector worth speaking of in Europe?
If we did allow free trade then the corrupt dictators in many African countries would just have more money to oppress their people and stuff into Swiss banks.
The one thing that George W Bush has right is that democracy and freedom are the solution to most of the worlds ills. What he does to help foster that democracy and freedom is where many people have issues. The bottom line is that there are no famines in democratic countries.
Most of Africa’s problems were caused in whole or in part by outside factors but most of the solutions to those problems now lie in Africa.