Comments by "robheusd" (@robheusd) on "2nacheki" channel.

Adrica only exporrting raw materials and have to import all manufactured goods from abroad is a recipe for keeping africa poor and underdeveloped and in permament termoil over fighting over mineral resources. Africa needs manufacturing industries and transportation infrastructure to become more self-sufficient and less dependent on import from abroad.
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There should be a highway (and rail corridor allongside it) all the way from Egypt (Cairo) through Libya, Tunesia, Algeria, Morocco, Mauretania to Dakar (Senegal), and from there a connection to the Sahel states (Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Chad, Sudan).
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Weather an area or a country or continent is overpopulated or underpopulated is entirely dependend on the available economic resources, and much less on the size of the area. Antarctica is OVERPOPULATED despite having no (permanent) residents, because we can not live there. Population density (people per square km) is something different then over or underpopulation. If an area is overpopulated, people tend to migrate from that area. If an area is underpopulated, people tend to migrate to that area. That has nothing to do with the population density of the area.
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Isn't there the african highway from Algiers (algeria) all the way to Lagos (Nigeria), connecting Nigeria, Niger and Algeria? Algeria and Morocco don't have good relationships unfortunately.
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Some calculations about the cost of building this green wall. The area is 8000 km by 15 km. Let us assume (note: this assumption is about 100 times higher as the original plan itself!) we want to plant 100 trees per hectare (10 m average distance between trees). This would thus be: 8000 * 15 * 100 * 100 = 1,2 billion trees. Suppose Europe subsidizes planting a tree with 10 euro per tree planted. It would cost Europe 12 billion euros. Divided over 4 years would be 3 billion euros per year. Divided by 28 countries would be (on average) just over 100 milion euros per country per year for 4 years. Peanuts! Consider that Africa gets looted for 41 billion euros per year. And carbon credits gets returned and it would reduce the number of people that migrate to europe! So, Europe should pay for it as compensation for centuries of slave trade, colonisation and existing neo-colonial looting of africa. Just as a small compensation. It can proof to be less costly as having to accept millions of refugees and/or having to pay north african countries for taking back refugees (which end up in miserable refugee camps or are dropped in the middle of deserts or slave camps....).
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The trees would be very usefull for: - Protecting infrastructure like roads that would otherwise become covered with windblown sand. Just raise a small elevation at each side of the road (some 5m high), covered with checkerboard patters to avoid sand erosion, and plant trees using the waterbox system that help them grow for the first year with a water supply. - Around solar power stations to capture sand that would otherwise fall as dust on the panels and reduce the power production. Less cleaning up costs! - Around cities and villages.
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LET AFRICA BUILT A (GREEN) WALL AND MAKE EUROPE PAY FOR IT!
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@2nacheki - I think (we europeans) should write to our government that to help solve the migration issue, they should invest properly in building africa's green wall. See my calculations (with large over estimates of costs!) how much it would cost per country, and it proofs it is really peanuts money! Not calculated is the carbon credits that can be subtracted from the donation and/or other yields! I don't want to invest myself by donating money to an individual person, only if it is an organisation that has transperency and can show where the money is spent on and is accountable. The african green wall is a very large project, and is divided over 10 countries, I don't know if there is some multi-country coördination of the project, who is doing the monitoring? How can donators monitor the progress? Etc. If you want to raise money from individuals, please make it an accountable form of organisation that provides transperency. But my take on this is that we (europeans) could do something better then donating money, and that is demanding our governments to invest money on this, it will have much more effect then the little bucks I can spent myself! Plus, if you want to do it more profoundly, cost effective and in less time, you would want to have better equipment for planting trees. First you could place checkerboard patterns if the ground is loose soil (sand) that would easily be blown away by wind, and use planting methods like the waterboxx (see Groasis) to help a young tree grow even in harsh conditions. When thinking really big, you would want to have a tree planting machine that plants a tree (including a compostable vat of nutrients and a water reservoir the size of an oil drum) and which could plant a 1000 trees per day. Planting 1,2 billion trees in 4 years would be 10 million per day (300 days per year), so you need 10.000 tree planting machines. The planting should occur at multiple locations simultaneously, lets say a 100 locations, and 100 tree planting machines per location. It would not be a big problem if such machines were available, the bigger problem is to harvest so many trees that could flourish in the desert/sahel, since you would need a lot of them. Just some ideas....
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That is correct, but in an indirect way, the green wall can keep african migrants in africa instead of having them either starve or migrate to europe, which is why this wall is like an effective barrier against emigration, since it provides fertile soil for people to grow food. And that is why Europe should pay for that wall, because it makese sense to help people in africa stay in africa without starving. and building it would cost less then otherwise spent on migration issue.... Yet, european leaders and politicians have not thought about this in this way, and keep spending money on keeping migrants from africa out of europe without success, because they are not targeting the cause of the problem (hunger/starvation due to desertification) only the consequences (people migrating). People in Europe should demand their governments to spent European money on building the green wall of africa, as it is the most cost effective way of reducing migrants, and the costs are (comparitatively) really peanuts!
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Make it two: one from Egypt to Cape Town, and one from marocco to Dacar and then the coast of west africa to Nigeria and then connecting to the South-Sudan/Uganda/Kenia railway network), as well as a northen line from marocco to cairo.
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Cause Congo is a much larger country and the congolese state was unable to secure all the territory, which explains why they were unable to get rif of all the rebel groups fighting there. And because people are so poor that they are inclined to work for reel groups or do illegal mining, because there are not much other economic opportunities....
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That would be a great project that could boost inter-african trade and boost the economies, esp. for the landlocked countries. Although initially a single track unelectrified line should be built, it should be prepared to be upgradable for double track rail and electrification and (partly) highspeed also. And with many branches. And a western and eastern north-south line (one from Marocco to Dacar and then all the west african coastal countries, the other from egypt to cairo as a direct railway link connecting Khartoum, Addis Abeba, Nairobi, Dar es Salaam and further all the way to cape town).
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The new government is just doing what Macron asked - fixing the air conditioner - it just demands that France neocolonial rule and military presence in Niger will be abandoned....
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