The African Union (AU) should immediately be disbanded for the following reasons:
1. It seeks the interests of Africa's dictators rather than the people of the continent. Witness the lame statements it made about the situation in Tunisia and the deafening silence it has maintained in the face of the Egyptian crisis.
2. It has consistently failed to address issues that are important to African peoples. Witness its incompetence in the DRC, Cote d'Ivoire, Madagascar, and Kenya.
3. It does not even have money to run its operations, relying instead on foreign aid from Asia and the West.
The AU has therefore become one more institution in Africa that needs foreign aid in order to survive. A body like that which cannot finance its activities should go out of existence. It is of no use to Africans. An organization of that nature should emerge from the ground up rather than from the top down as is currently the case. The current nature of the organization cannot do much to help Africans. It is a club for Africa's dictators. It should be disbanded.
1. It seeks the interests of Africa's dictators rather than the people of the continent. Witness the lame statements it made about the situation in Tunisia and the deafening silence it has maintained in the face of the Egyptian crisis.
2. It has consistently failed to address issues that are important to African peoples. Witness its incompetence in the DRC, Cote d'Ivoire, Madagascar, and Kenya.
3. It does not even have money to run its operations, relying instead on foreign aid from Asia and the West.
The AU has therefore become one more institution in Africa that needs foreign aid in order to survive. A body like that which cannot finance its activities should go out of existence. It is of no use to Africans. An organization of that nature should emerge from the ground up rather than from the top down as is currently the case. The current nature of the organization cannot do much to help Africans. It is a club for Africa's dictators. It should be disbanded.
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