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"Madam President, the ethnic and religious conflict is obviously the most pressing problem, but in a way it distracts us from the underlying long-term problems of poverty, a lack of economic development and a fragile civic infrastructure. We must understand the nature of these problems if they are to be solved.
Now these problems are not just the product of the decades following independence or, for that matter, of the colonial experience. Despite being rich in natural resources and having favourable agricultural conditions, the CAR is one of the world’s poorest countries. We might ask why the area of the Central African Republic, and the rest of sub-Saharan Africa for that matter, did not develop the instruments of technology and transport and use them to spread the fruits of their discoveries, learning and creativity throughout the world in the way that Europe did. If there has been, and continues to be, a hindrance to development it must be identified and addressed. When we address that question honestly we might be ready to start solving Africa’s problems."@en1
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