African migrants in China comprise at least two percent of Guangzhou’s 13 million residents but still face difficulties.
Dave Tacon
Al-Jazeera - 26 Sep 2014
Guangzhou, China - African migrants have been arriving
in Guangzhou, China’s third largest city ever since the Chinese economic
boom began in the late 1990s.
Current estimates put their
numbers anywhere from 20,000 to 200,000. The latter figure would place
their population at almost two percent of Guangzhou’s 13 million
residents. In any event, Guangzhou's Africans constitute Asia's largest
African community. The majority of them reside in a 10 square kilometre
area in the central districts of Yuexiu and Baiyun locally known as
'Chocolate City'.
Many of Guangzhou’s Africans are short term residents who arrive by
plane on 30 day tourist visas with little more than the clothes on their
backs and as much Chinese yuan as they and their families can cobble
together. Their plan is to purchase cheap goods to sell back home, which
may be anywhere from Lagos, Nigeria, to Freetown, Sierra Leone.
Abubakkar
Barrie, 32, an MBA student from Sierra Leone, manages other traders'
shipping by selling space in shipping containers. "I came to China
because it is the centre of international business," he says.
Although
he is excited by the opportunities available in Guangzhou, Barrie
admits that there are cultural barriers for Africans in Guangzhou.
"Although I work with many Chinese, I have never once been invited to
their homes."
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Saturday, September 27, 2014
Wednesday, September 24, 2014
The world does not aid Africa – Africa aids the world!
Khanyo Olwethu Mjamba
THIS IS AFRICA - July 16, 2014
Foreign developed nations often wax lyrical about their generous donations of aid to Africa. But a coalition of UK and African researchers has released research findings that illustrate how the continent actually loses over six times the amount it receives in aid.
As we often watch wealthy countries heap on themselves and each other generous portions of praise for helping ‘needy’ countries and using their donations to accelerate development in impoverished regions so as to end poverty, another scenario is playing itself out. This scenario is rarely reported. Africa, the receiver of $30 billion in annual monetary handouts, is not only making nothing from the aid it receives but it actually loses $192 billion to the rest of the world within the same time frame. How, you ask? Research published recently indicates that current practices within the continent tend to favour wealthy countries. These practices include tax dodging, the repatriation of multinational companies’ profits with their unjust trade policies, the costs incurred from climate change and the exodus of skilled workers.
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THIS IS AFRICA - July 16, 2014
Foreign developed nations often wax lyrical about their generous donations of aid to Africa. But a coalition of UK and African researchers has released research findings that illustrate how the continent actually loses over six times the amount it receives in aid.
As we often watch wealthy countries heap on themselves and each other generous portions of praise for helping ‘needy’ countries and using their donations to accelerate development in impoverished regions so as to end poverty, another scenario is playing itself out. This scenario is rarely reported. Africa, the receiver of $30 billion in annual monetary handouts, is not only making nothing from the aid it receives but it actually loses $192 billion to the rest of the world within the same time frame. How, you ask? Research published recently indicates that current practices within the continent tend to favour wealthy countries. These practices include tax dodging, the repatriation of multinational companies’ profits with their unjust trade policies, the costs incurred from climate change and the exodus of skilled workers.
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Aid to Africa: donations from west mask '$60bn looting' of continent
UK and wealthy states revel in their generosity while allowing their companies to plunder Africa's resources, say NGOs
By Mark Anderson
theguardian.com, Tuesday 15 July 2014
Western countries are using aid to Africa as a smokescreen to hide the "sustained looting" of the continent as it loses nearly $60bn a year through tax evasion, climate change mitigation, and the flight of profits earned by foreign multinational companies, a group of NGOs has claimed.
Although sub-Saharan Africa receives $134bn each year in loans, foreign investment and development aid, research released on Tuesday by a group of UK and Africa-based NGOs suggests that $192bn leaves the region, leaving a $58bn shortfall.
The report says that while western countries send about $30bn in development aid to Africa every year, more than six times that amount leaves the continent, "mainly to the same countries providing that aid".
The perception that such aid is helping African countries "has facilitated a perverse reality in which the UK and other wealthy governments celebrate their generosity whilst simultaneously assisting their companies to drain Africa's resources", the report claims. It points out that foreign multinational companies siphon $46bn out of sub-Saharan Africa each year, while $35bn is moved from Africa into tax havens around the world annually.
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By Mark Anderson
theguardian.com, Tuesday 15 July 2014
Western countries are using aid to Africa as a smokescreen to hide the "sustained looting" of the continent as it loses nearly $60bn a year through tax evasion, climate change mitigation, and the flight of profits earned by foreign multinational companies, a group of NGOs has claimed.
Although sub-Saharan Africa receives $134bn each year in loans, foreign investment and development aid, research released on Tuesday by a group of UK and Africa-based NGOs suggests that $192bn leaves the region, leaving a $58bn shortfall.
The report says that while western countries send about $30bn in development aid to Africa every year, more than six times that amount leaves the continent, "mainly to the same countries providing that aid".
The perception that such aid is helping African countries "has facilitated a perverse reality in which the UK and other wealthy governments celebrate their generosity whilst simultaneously assisting their companies to drain Africa's resources", the report claims. It points out that foreign multinational companies siphon $46bn out of sub-Saharan Africa each year, while $35bn is moved from Africa into tax havens around the world annually.
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Monday, September 22, 2014
Huge Race Riot In Israel As African Immigrants Are Beaten In The Street
Counter Currents - September 20, 2014
Israeli protests against African immigrants who have been seeking asylum in the Jewish State, have gained a lot of numbers lately. Riots rising to 1000-strong in Tel Aviv failed to convince many that they were “protests” as right-wing Israelis described them. Israeli residents of the Hatikva neighborhood swarmed the streets, waving Israeli flags and screaming “Deport the Sudanese”.
Others could be heard yelling, “Infiltrators get out of our homes”. There were 17 arrests made, with police charging Israeli rioters with assault and vandalism. Passing African migrant workers and refugees from the Sudan were already being beaten in the streets when police arrived on the scene. Store windows were broken out on many stores, and trash cans lit on fire. Some African migrant workers driving by were attacked, having their car windows smashed, as the angry crowd tried to pull them from their vehicles. The Israeli newspaper Haaretz says that other rioters searched taxis for Africans, but finding none, allowed the cabs to pass on.
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Israeli protests against African immigrants who have been seeking asylum in the Jewish State, have gained a lot of numbers lately. Riots rising to 1000-strong in Tel Aviv failed to convince many that they were “protests” as right-wing Israelis described them. Israeli residents of the Hatikva neighborhood swarmed the streets, waving Israeli flags and screaming “Deport the Sudanese”.
Others could be heard yelling, “Infiltrators get out of our homes”. There were 17 arrests made, with police charging Israeli rioters with assault and vandalism. Passing African migrant workers and refugees from the Sudan were already being beaten in the streets when police arrived on the scene. Store windows were broken out on many stores, and trash cans lit on fire. Some African migrant workers driving by were attacked, having their car windows smashed, as the angry crowd tried to pull them from their vehicles. The Israeli newspaper Haaretz says that other rioters searched taxis for Africans, but finding none, allowed the cabs to pass on.
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