Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has positioned the blame on imperialist powers for the state the African continent finds itself in.
Speaking on the second Russia-Africa summit in St. Petersburg final Friday, Museveni stated that centuries of taking slaves from Africa provoked the colonized international locations to ultimately resist.
Museveni additionally thanked socialist international locations, led by the Soviet Union, for supporting Africa’s battle for freedom.
“In order to understand the struggles, we have been involved in, we should be reminded that by 1900, the whole of Africa had been colonized except for Ethiopia,” he stated.
“This colonization followed 500 years of taking slaves from Africa and the devastation caused by that criminal practice. However, these criminal acts by the imperialists provoked the colonized people into launching a resistance movement by some of the black people,” he added.
Museveni held talks together with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, on the sidelines of the summit and outlined areas of cooperation that embody oil exploration, nuclear energy vitality, fertilizers, the Pathogenic economic system, electrical batteries and area science that might allow Uganda to have a devoted satellite tv for pc.
He proposed discouraging the importing of uncooked supplies from Africa however as an alternative labored with the African governments so as to add worth to merchandise on the supply as it will remodel the economies of the continent.
Putin stated Uganda stays certainly one of Russia’s key companions and is an ally on the continent with a diplomatic relationship that stretched greater than 60 years.
He stated commerce between the 2 international locations has elevated 5 occasions within the final six months in comparison with final 12 months and expressed gratitude that Uganda and Russia have shut positions within the worldwide enviornment, based mostly on a dedication to shaping a simply world. He congratulated Uganda for its endorsement to chair the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), taking management from Azerbaijan.
Putin additionally introduced that Russia has written off the debt of African states price $23 billion.
Source: www.dailysabah.com
