Hello dear readers, this sunday I want do use to talk about a massive problem in africa, even if I mention only senegal and mauritania, the problem still concern all african nations! So enjoy and share your thoughts about it!
Anyone who buys in Senegal finds in the markets hardly local fruits and vegetables: the tomatoes come from Italy, the potatoes and onions from Holland. In the shops it is similar: There is milk powder imported from Europe.
In Africa, where 85 percent of the population live on agriculture and livestock farming, local milk producers don't sell their milk anymore because the imported milk powder is much cheaper. The reason is the subsidy policy of the European Union.
The fishermen of Africa suffer. Once a time they went out to sea and came back with rich booty. But today there is hardly anything to catch. The waters off Mauritania and Senegal are fished by large factory ships, which set off from Europe, Russia and Japan. The rights to fish off their coasts, were bought from the poor African countries - from the European Community. Because Senegalese fishermen can barely make money with fishing, many of them retool their boats and rent them to human traffickers to smuggle the refugees from West Africa to the Canary Islands. The images are known.
Anyone that has luck will survive the trip to hell, Who has better luck, get a Spanish passport and who has the perfect happiness, find a job. For example, as a sailor. On a Spanish factory ship that fishes off the coast of West Africa.
This is a devils circle that has its origins in the European subsidy practices.
Who is to blame? The European Union, which counteract the problem of overfishing of the own oceans, by buying fishing licenses for less money from African countries? Or African governments who value money more than the goods that nourish the people?
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