Africa: Profit Over Aid - Merkel's Plan for Africa

opinion

With new reform partnerships, Germany wants to help Africa move forwards. But the German G20 initiative is loaded with excessive expectations, says Claus Stäcker.

Alpha Conde, head of the African Union and Guinean president, nudged German Chancellor Angela Merkel conspiratorially: yet another of his African counterparts had just described the so-called "Marshall Plan" for Africa, laid out by German Development Minister Gerd Müller, as the "Merkel Plan." A girlish smile crept over the chancellor's face. Just moments earlier, she had called on the African delegates at the G20 Africa Summit in Berlin to speak out openly.

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