Africa

UN and EU government agencies – and tax-exempt NGOs – have brought a plague of locusts.

President Trump should direct USAID to support coal and gas, not just wind and solar.

Small Modular Reactors, especially Pebble Bed Modular Reactors, are Africa’s best future.

President Obama infamously told Africans they should focus on their “bountiful” wind, solar and biofuel.

Hecklers protested the U.S. event on fossil fuels but nobody bothered the Africans when they promoted the role of oil and gas in national development.

Uber-organic campaign enshrines primitive agriculture and malnutrition as human rights.

The corruption of government officials seems to be as old as recorded history.

China talks a tough game but never fails to put up its word on the environmental front. Now the world looks to them to be a leader in spite of the US leaving Paris.

Too many “green” policies bleed red, hurting the environment and killing people.

Energy has long lost media attention; so we no longer think about ways we use energy and its effect on national policy or our pocketbooks. However, problems of energy supply we deemed a crisis in the 1970’s are still with us. U. S. warships still protect Persian Gulf supply of Middle East oil which accounts for one-quarter world’s oil production.

FACT: Restrictions would be for non-essential travel. Humanitarian aid could continue, with the stipulation that returning workers would be subject to a three week quarantine.

More than seven billion people now populate Earth, including six billion who live in developing economies. After having already quadrupled in the past century, the world’s population could reach near 9 billion by 2050, according to projections by the United Nations. Half of that growth will come from Africa, which will increase its percentage of world population from 13 to 20 percent.

The 2014 US-Africa Leaders Summit hosted by President Obama this past week brought together the largest-ever gathering of African government officials in Washington, DC. They discussed ways to bolster trade and investment by American companies on a continent where a billion people – including 200 million aged 15 to 24 – are becoming wealthier and better educated.