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General News on Wednesday, July 31, 2019
Source: www.ghanaweb.com
2019-07-31
play the videoNancy Pelosi, US President of the House of Representatives
US Congressional President Nancy Pelosi warned foreign investors seeking mineral resources and badets in Africa to give up the act.
She said that rather than extort their minerals, investors should cultivate the habit of investing in the country in order to develop the nation.
Speaking at a press conference held at the US embbady after the crown's filing at the Dubois center, Nancy Pelosi pointed out that this act on the part of companies was a major problem for companies. African countries wishing to trade.
"The days of companies moving into countries and exploiting natural resources without investing in the added value of the country's transformation is part of the problem. Companies will come, countries will come and say we will make an agreement, we will take your special ore and we will give it to you. It's not a good business. A trade is when you invest in the economic development of your country to be able to explore minerals or badets, and that's when the country can truly flourish. Use your own badets, employ your own employees. "
The US president, accompanied by US congressman Barbara Lee, to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the slave trade in Accra, Ghana, Wednesday, July 31, 2019, said the fight for freedom and justice would continue.
She stated that the visit to Cape Coast Castle and Elmina Castle had strengthened their ability to move forward and that it would remind America that Africa counted.
"We came here in search of the homeland, but also with the commitment to continue to fight for freedom and justice both on the African continent and in America … This visit reminds us and brings us back to the United States as Africa issues. It is important in our foreign policy, our aid to trade and development, it is essential … to know from where we come strengthened us to continue to move forward so that we can continue the struggle in the fight for justice and freedom "
US Congressman John Lewis, for his part, noted that Africa had made a lot of progress in its revolution. Let us add that the souls of African-Americans will be redeemed so that nobody is left behind because of his race, his color or his origin.
"We have witnessed a non-violent revolution. A revolution of values, a revolution of ideas, we have made a lot of progress and we do not go back, we are moving forward to redeem the souls of America and create what Dr. King called the beloved community where no one, no one would be left behind or left behind because of their race, color or background. "
Other members of the congress who accompanied US President Nancy Pelosi on her four-day visits to Ghana included Barbara Lee, Sheila Jackson Lee, James Clyburn and IIhan Omar.
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