ティラーソン氏が中国を批判しつつアフリカ外交へ

BBC Rex Tillerson slams China's relationship with Africa 6 Mar 2018

「US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has criticised China's economic engagement in Africa, ahead of his first official visit to the continent.

He said China encouraged dependency, utilised corrupt deals and endangered its natural resources」

　なお

「He said the aid plan will help people affected by food shortages and conflict in Somalia, South Sudan, Ethiopia and the Lake Chad Basin」

　とあり、（もと）ソマリア趣味者としても一定の興味がある。もっとも、ロシアのラブロフ氏が同時期にアフリカ外交に出かける由で、米国の世界政策の一環ですねこれ、という感想もありだろうけど。

「In an administration that has often struggled for coherence in its foreign policy, and which lives by the maxim of America First, it would be unrealistic to expect Secretary Tillerson to deliver a transformation in the relationship between US and Africa」

　まあ関心がないよりあるほうがいいさ、と。


　ちょっと前だが

BBC Surviving Congo's massacres: 'I climbed over bodies to flee' 14 December 2017

　こんなようなこともあるわけで。

　また

BBC Dozens of students die as bus falls off cliff in Ethiopia 13 Mar 2018

　道路網等々の改善は急務でもあるし。