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“Will President Barack Obama be able to deliver in accordance with the super-hero status that Africans are bestowing on him?”
That question is addressed in Centre for International Governance Innovation senior researcher Hany Besada in a May 6, 2009, “open editorial” in The Zimbabwe Guardian. The editorial say, in part:
In the coming months, Obama will be expected to address Africa’s most pressing crises: Sudan’s six-year conflict in Darfur continues unabated with UN forces being woefully understaffed and underfunded, despite former President Bush labeling it as “genocide”; Somalia has now been without a central government for 18 years and has lost more than one million people to civil conflict and famine; and the Democratic Republic of the Congo is struggling to end a five-year conflict with a death toll deemed the world’s highest since World War II.“And,” the editorial adds, “of course, there are the longstanding issues across the continent of food security, corruption, access to clean water and basic health care, and the looming threat of climate change.”
If you want to read the entire editorial, please see “Africa’s Expectations from Obama.” Also see Mr. Obama’s Africa policy outline.
Note: This item can also be found at The Opinion Post.
