“Countries should be wary of authoritarian regimes with empty promises. They breed corruption, dependency,” Pompeo AfricaTour China EmptyPromises Africa
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa in Addis Ababa on February 19, 2020.
“They run the risk that the prosperity and sovereignty and progress that Africa so needs and desperately wants won’t happen.” He also hailed the free market generally, blasting “failed socialist experiments of years past” in places like Zimbabwe and Tanzania. Critics are quick to cite Trump’s widely-reported remarks in 2018 when he used a profanity to describe African and poorer Western Hemisphere nations whose citizens migrate to the United States.
But African leaders would nonetheless “welcome his long-overdue engagement and focus on the positives as much as possible,” Devermont said.
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