Ridiculous

Gaddafi warns Africa over unity

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has threatened to turn his back on Africa if the continent's leaders again reject his proposals for closer unity.
He said Libya would instead look towards Europe and the Arab world.
Col Gaddafi was speaking just ahead of the opening of a summit of African Union leaders in Ethiopia on Thursday. He also said Libya was prepared to move its African investments, which he said amounted to more than $5bn (£2.5bn), to Arab and Mediterranean states.
The Libyan leader has for a long time advocated the creation of a United States of Africa - with its government including a foreign minister, defence minister and minister of trade.
The AU, which succeeded the Organisation of African Unity in 2002, was conceived by Mr Gaddafi as part of this vision.
The BBC's Rana Jawad in Tripoli says Col Gaddafi expressed his concerns on the future of Africa at a two-hour news conference at his residence in the Libyan capital.
He accused the AU of failing to achieve tangible results in unity because of its endless delays in progressing towards forming a government for the continent.
After decades of sanctions and isolation, the Libyan leader seems comfortable with his new-found friendship with the West, our reporter says.
He said Libya would consider more economically strategic alternatives like Europe and the Arab world if his vision was rejected.

"The (summit) will be decisive. It will either put an end to stalling and time wasting on the unification of Africa or prove there is a conspiracy which vetoes African unity," Mr Gaddafi said. (BBC)

OB: Last summer Gaddafi managed to press through the “United States of Africa” as main topic of the AU summit. What a waste of time and resources. In the whole of the African continent not a single citizen of one African state can travel to another African state without paying through the nose for visas and other taxes. Travelling as well as trade between African states is next to impossible. Ever tried to cross the border from Brazzaville, the capital of Kongo to Kinshasa, the capital of the DRC? The visa payments are usually one of the most important sources of income of the highest ranks in government. If Gaddafi looks for conspirators he may look at his chaps, the African heads of states.
“United States of Africa” as if there were not other problems to be resolved. War, famine, state collapse, crime, aids, drought, human trafficking, slavery, corruption to name but a few. “United states of Africa”. Ridiculous