Theresa May, the UK prime minister, has given her speech in Cape Town, saying that she regards the countries she’s visiting this week – South Africa, Nigeria and Kenya - as key partners and thriving democracies, typical of 21st Century Africa.
She pointed to the fact that five of the fast-growing economies were in African and the GDP of the continent was set to double between 2015 and 2030.
By 2050 a quarter of the world’s population and the world’s consumers would live on the continent, she said.
However, some of world’s poorest people were in Africa too, so achieving inclusive growth was a challenge, she added.
African leaders have told her the greatest challenge they face is creating jobs.
She says she’s proposing a new partnership with African, one built around on shared prosperity.
She announced plans for a £4bn ($5.1bn) programme of UK investment in Africa's economies – to be matched by a similar amount by the private sector.
She also said:
The UK would be back getting a permanent presence for Africa on the UN Security Council
The UK would give back huge sums of money illegally taken from Kenya
The UK would be opening new embassies in Chad and Niger.
The main thrust of her speech was that the UK’s investment on the continent, while not as big as other nations, would be over the long-term.
Source: BBC
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African politicians should not fall for this con-artists. The British is very cunning. They've seen their economy is falling and Africa will soon grow and that their usual way of keeping their grips on the colonization of Africa and force the Gay, Lesbian agenda the African. African leaders should grow up and be deceived by this peanut. Is 20 so, so and so the only amount Ghana needs to develop? It is a prophecy Africa will grow faster than these big nations in the next ten years so, they will do anything to keep their grips on Africa. African Leaders must wake up. Africa can grow without them if the African politician is able to think.
You think Britain is smart? When did they realize they need Africa? Do NOT bring your G....Y and Les....N thing in Africa. We have sound culture! If you have destroyed yours, do not come and destroy ours. We are OK!
With NO DEAL Brexit looming, Theresa May has now decided to visit Africa to see what the UK can exploit once again. With genuine intentions, she should have made this visit long ago, maybe her intentions would have been seen as genuine.But now that the EU is about to ditch UK without any deal, they are now looking at Africa as the last resort. Sorry, Africa has intimate relationship with China.