By Thomas C. Mountain
IntrepidReport.com
Posted on December 14, 2011
In the bizarre world of the UN inSecurity Council, the Monday, Dec. 5, passage of further “sanctions” against Africa’s fastest growing economy, targeting Eritrea in the Horn of Africa with its projected 5 years’ double-digit growth rate, should come as no surprise.
By a vote of 13 to 0, with China and Russia abstaining, the UNSC passed a second round of sanctions against Eritrea, the first being almost exactly two years ago.
Of note was the USA’s Susan Rice, PhD, once Bill Clinton’s black sergeant-at-arms in Africa and today the as the US ambassador to the UN doing everything she could to successfully prevent Eritrean President Issias Aferworki from appearing in front of the inSecurity Council (even the BBC was forced to note such).
A promise is a promise and Susan Rice had “promised” (one of those she meant to keep) that new sanctions against Eritrea would be passed and they were. Even the Brazilians, Indians and South Africans raised their hands at Susan Rice’s demand. Such slavish kowtowing in support of Pax Americana has long lost its novelty, putting a lie once again to any claim to principles in the leadership of the developing world.
The “sanctions” passed against Eritrea on Dec. 5 are all bark and no bite, less even then the first batch.
The first version of this latest round of sanctions, (that even the Europeans vetoed) would have crippled Eritrea’s emerging mining industry, one of the main drivers of its new found economic engine and blocked Eritreans abroad from paying their 2% income tax, which has long been the basis for Eritrea’s very survival.
Why is the Obama White House so hell bent on destroying Africa’s fastest growing economy?
According to the Obama White House, Eritrea supports terrorism in the Horn of Africa, i.e., in providing arms to the Al Shabab Somali resistance. Of course the Obama-mafia didn’t invent these charges, that was done back in the Bush administration in 2007.
Read more: More UN sanctions on Eritrea
Glen Ford in 2008 – Susan Rice is Bad News for Africa
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