| ... writing off the debt of 33 poorest
African countries which could not pay the debt anyway was only a gesture -- a
"macabre scene" where a creditor visits a dying man to forgive his debts. Much
more needed to be done by the international community, if Africans, who are a
disappearing people threatened with extinction, are to survive. OAU Chairman, Algerian President
Bouteflika, 21feb01 |