Senegal: President Says 'Significant Reforms' to Change Lives

On the sidelines of the 67th United Nations General Assembly in New York, Senegalese President Macky Sall spoke with AllAfrica about his ambitious domestic agenda and the worsening crisis in Mali - which he says must be reunited.

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President Macky Sall of Senegal.



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  • abcshopping952
    Sep 30 2012, 06:17

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  • ras sideeq
    Sep 29 2012, 09:37

    " I will take this in the order how I sight the vision of this President, first foremost as of rwomen bearing children??It is important to note that AFRICANS had those solutions before whites decided they were smarter and they know best. CIRCUMCISION was the most effective produce from AFRICA. we did not have promiscuity there were no unwanted children and there was no baby mortality rate. What we have seen in AFRICA since white intervention, is the detrioration of morals, child mortality and overwhelming poverty. As sightful AFRICANS these realities must be recognised we must not look to the same p[eople who destroyed us who still exploits and can look at thier wealth and porful empowerment to the demise of the AFRICAN people. AFRICANS [Presidents must speak to other nations who ve made progress in all the ares that we have problems with and ask them to share with us thier antidotes to these destructive conditions that were left by Europeans!!!! We are living in a technologicaltimes where information is easily accepted, if we are to obtain at least Mid Income status in AFRICA within the next couple decades it is important that we speak to each other and learn from each other. To believe that your former exploiuters and manipulaters have suddenly become moral and have abandoned thier desire to force thier will over you is an illusion akin to a sin!!!!!!!. To achive INDEPENDENCE one must be free in mind, one must have self belief"!!!! One must abolish all th practices that are self defeating self destructive and one that glorifies another people in staed of yourself. The idea that problems are too great ofr you to solve is foolisg self defeating and worthless. You have a population of millions they need guidance they need education ; this is key , if you continue to select the education of your former rulers then you will never succeed! What most of AFRICAN NATIONS NEED IS TO REMIND THEMSELVES WHO THEY ARE AND HOW LONG YOU HAVE EXISTED ON THIS PLANET!!!UNTIL THERE IS A CLEAR UNIFICATION OF ALL AFRICAN NATIONS THEY WILL REMIAN AT ODDS. FRANCE MUST BE ELLIMINATED FROM THE EQUATION OF GREE INTELLECT IN AFRICA!!!. GGBAGBO THE TUNISIANS WENT TO REVOLT BECAUSE OF TEH FRENCH AND THIER OVERBEARING IMPERILAIST COLINIALIST ATTITUDES. GBAGBO WAS OVERTHROWN BY AFRICAN WHO AGAIN IS ASKING WHAT TO DO IN A AFRICAN COUNTRY AND AGAIN FRANCE IS LEADING THE CHANTS TO GO TO WAR!!!!!! FRANCE WANTS TO MIANTIAN ITS FINANCIAL HOLD OVER AFRICAN RESOURCES FRANCE IS ANOTHER ENSLAVER WHO RETAINED ITS RICHES FROM THE EXPLOITATION ENSLAVEMENT OF AFRICANS AND THE AFRICAN CONTINENT. AFRICA HAS NOT DEVELOPED AFRICA SINCE IT HAS BEEN THIER. THE STORIES THEY CONCOCT ARE NONE NOTHER THAN FABLES AND SELF AGRRANDIASTIONS"""LIKE MOST ELAVERS THEY SUFFRED FROM DELUSIONS OF GRANDUER IT WAS PART OF THIER PSYCOTIC MENTALITY TELLING THEMSLEVES THAT WHAT THEY DI WAS NOT CRIMINAL AND THEY WERE ACTUALLY DOING SOMETHING GOOD FOR SAVAGES ??THIS IS A MAKE BELIEF; TH CRIMINALITY THE DESTRUCTION THE IMPUNITY HAS NOT BEEN SEEN ON THE MONUMENTAL LEVELS OF PERVASION THAT TOOK PLACE ON THE AFRICAN CONTINENT TO THE AFRICAN PEOPLE EVEVR IN THE EARTHS HISTOORY THIS IS UNPRECEDNETD WHAT THEY DID TO AFRICA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. AFRICAN NATION MUST BRAK THAT UMBLYCOL CORD THAT TIES US T THEM. THEY ARE ROTTEN AND ARE CAUSING TOO MUCH SICKNESS AND DISEASES!!!. IT IS IMPERATIVE THAT WE DO NOT ALLOW FOR INTERVENTION IN AFRICA O0NCE AGAIAN BY ANY FROM OF FRENCH OR UN FORCES. IT IS TIME FOR AFRICA TO RID ITSELF OF THE UNITED NATINS. EVERY NATION HAS PEOPLE !!!! PEOPLE HAS MINDS !!1 MINDS ARE WHAT WE NEED TO EXPLOIT GETTING THE BEST OF THE MINDS OF PEOPLE" CAN YOU SIGHT THAT?? THROUGH THE RIIGHT EDUCATION WHICH WE GFO TO OUR TRADITIONAL LEADERS WE HOLD SEMINARS EXPLAINING WHERE WE ARE AS A NATION WHAT WE NEED TO DO TO REINFORCE CERTAIN VALUES IN OUR COMMUNITIES. WE DONT USE BRIBERY MONEY MATERIAL VALUES TO EXEMPLIFY MORAL AN INTELLECTUAL VALUES. IT IS IMPERATIVE WE OVER STAND WHAT OUR VALUES OF AFRICAN S ARE AND WERE!!!! THE FIRST THING IS TO EXPLAIN TO OUR YOUNG GIRLS THAT SEX IS NOT TO BE USED FOR SELF GRATIFICATION OR LUST THESE ARE NOT AND HOW WE SHOULD LIVE! SEX IS A MORAL OBLIGATION OF RESPONSIBIITY THAT MEANS THAT WE CANOT AFFORD TO HAVE SEX BECAUSE THERE IS A POSSIBILITY THAT YOU WILL BECOME PREGNANT AND IF YOU ARE NOT IN POSSITION TO LOOK AFTER CHILD THEN THE MORALITY OF THE CHILDS SUFFERING WILL BE UPON THIER HEADS FOR DISOBEYING WHAT THEY KNOW TO BE RIGHT OR WRONG!!!" TEACHING EXPLAININGEXEMPLIFYING THE WAY WE SHOUDL APPROACH LIFE BY OUR ELDERS IS NECESASARY TO IMPROVING THE LIFES OF ALL OUR AFRICAN BROTHERS AND SISTERS. TECHING WAS VERY IMPRTANT PART OF AFRICAN CULTURES VERY VERY IMPORTANT. OUR WAYS HAVE BEEN ABANDONED AND FORCED THRU CERCION AND MISEDUCATION MILEADING OF OUR PEOPLE THAT HAS ACCREDITED TO THE CONFUSION THAT IS DECIMATING THE CONTIENNT. WE MUST STYOP THE FOLLY OF TELLING OUR CHILDREN TO USE CONDOMS AND GET ABORTIONS THESE ARE WESTERN FOOLISH UNGODLY IMMORALL ACTIVITIES THAT IS BEING [PROPOGATE TO AFRICANS AS IF WE ARE SWEOM CARBON COPY OF THESE FALSE IDEALS. WE MUST RECOUP OUR MORALITY; LET US BE CLEAR WE WALKED AROUND THE CONTINENT HALF DRESSED FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS WITH OUT IT BEING A PROBLEM MAN AND WOMEN DID NOT WALK AROUND HAVING ORGIES EVRYDAY OR SEXUALLY CHARGED??? RIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!! WE READ ABOUT THESE NASTY PRACTICES IN WHITE EUROPEANS WHEN THEY LEARNED TO IMPROVE THIER LIVES THEY TOOK THESE NASTY PRACTICES THEY DEVELOPED IN THE CAVES WHERE THEY LIVED FOR MILLINIUMS!!LET US REGROUP DOES THE EGYPTIANS SPEAK ABOUT ORGIES OR ANYTHING SEXUAL ??? NO THEY SPEAK OF LIFE RIGHTEOUSNESS MORALITY INTEGRITY THESE ARE OUR LEANINGS WE MUST RECAPTURE THESE IDEALS IN THE MINDS OF YORU YOUTHS!!!" LET US TAKE AFRICA TO THAT PLACE HWERE WE WE IN THE BEGINNING. THIS MIGHT BE TOO STRONG FOR SOME I TELL MAN OF THE EARLY VERY AFRICANS WERE CREATED BY THE "ALLMIGHTY GOD THE SUPREME BEING THE CREATOR " IT IS WE WE OWE OUR EXISTENCE TO AND IT IS HE WHO TAUGHT US THE ENTIRE WIZE INTELLECT THAT HAD BEEN OUR MAIN STAY UNTIL WE FELL OUT OF FAVOUR!! THIS WE MUST BE CLEAR WITH>> THE WIZE INTELECT THAT WAS THE AFRICANS FROM AN EARLIER PERIOD BEFORE THE DECISION FOR US TO BECOME MORE THAN ONE PEOPLE WITH MANY NATION IS UNATTAINABLE THAT WILL NEVER BE ATTAINE UNLESS WE SEEK TO RECONNECT WITH "OUR MASTER" THE GRAT ENTITITY THAT WAS OUR TEACHERCONFIDANT OUR FATHER" LET US BE CLEAR ADAAM EVEV AS THE FIRST PEOPLE WE KNOW THEY HAD LESSONS AND IT WAS CONSITANT WITH THE EVENTS IN BIBLICAL TALES WE CAN GATHER THAT THEY WERE INFORMED ABOUT CERTAIN THINGS THAT CHANGED THE WHOLE DYNAMICS WHEN THEY DISOBEYED THE DIRECTIONS AND INSTRUCTION OF "OUR CREATOR". DO YOU SEE THAT THE WHOLE WORLD IS CORERUPTED BY THESE FELONS WHO ARE TERRORISING THE PLANET WITH WARS AND WORDS OF WARS, THIS IS THE WEST THEY ARE THE TEACHERS OF THESE CORRUPTIONS THEY ARE THE WEAPOSN MAUFACTURERES WHO HAS THE WORLD IN THIER GRIPS WITH WARS AND LIKE A HYPNOTISED PEOPLE ALL WE WANT TO DO IS KILL KILL KILL KILL !!!;THESE DECEPTIONS THESE FAIRY TALES THESE MISDIRECTION IN THE WAY WE LIVE AND HOW THY WANT US TO LIVEIS NOT THE WAT FORWARD AT ALL! WE MUST STAND FIRM AND DECIDE THAT WE AS AFRICANS WILL NOT ACCEPT EVIL CORRUPTION BRIBERY ANY FORMS OF DECEPTIONS. WE MUST ACCEPT THAT WE MUST LIVE BY THE CODES OF THE FIRST PEOPLE WHO LIVED IN MORAL SUPERIROITY AND WERE ABLE TO ATTAIN THE HEIGHTS OF KNOWLEDGE UNATAINABLE TOADAY!!" WE NEED THE GIFT OF "OUR KING OUR MAJESTIC LORD OUR CREATOR OUR FATHER OUR GUIDE" THIS SI WHOM WE MUST RELY TO SEE US THRUOUGH ALL OUR DIFFICULT TIMES WE ARE BELIEVERS WE SHOULD KNOW FROM WHOM WE OWE OUR EXISTENCE TO!!!! THE WORLD IS IN OUR HANDS WE CAN NOT AFFORD TO GO BACKWARDS; DEPENDING ON FARNCE THE USA THE UNITED KNIGDOM IS GOING BACK IN TIME AND LIFE . WE MUST NOT BE AFRAID WE MUST NOT PUT DECISONS THAT ARE THE LIVES OF 1 BILLION PEOPLE IN THE HANDS OF A AFEW WHO ARE NOT WORTHY OF BEING DECIDERS OF SUCH DELICATE DECISIONS. AFRICANS CAN NOT BE CONVENIENT??? AFRICAN PROBELMS MUST BE SOUGHT OUT BY AFRICAN PEOPLE" THEN YOU RUN TO THE UNSECURITY COUNCIL TO GET IDEAS HOW TO HELP YOUR SELVES . THIS IS FOLLY. WHAT YOU ATRE DOING AGAGIN IS BEGGING FOR WAR INTERVENTION WHEN WE JUST TOOK OFF THE HEADS OF THE WEST FOPR NOT PURSUING PEACE IN LIBYA ??? WHAT IS IT GOING TO BE??? MALIANS DO NTO WANT INTERVENTION IT IS TILL THIER BROTHERS AND SISTERS WHO WILL BE KILLED. "LET US NOT START THE DIVISIVE TALK ABOUT ISLAMIST JIHADIST AND TAUREGS THESE ARE STILL BLACK PEOPLE THE MAJOURITY AND THEY ARE STILL MALIANS". MALI HAS NOT MADE ANY MOVES TO TAKE CONTROL OF ALGERIA MAURITANIA CHAD NIGER NIGERIA SENGAL CENTARL AFRICAN RPUBLIC OR ANY WHERE ELSE IN AFRICA. LET US NOT SPECULATE AND MAKE THIS INTO A FIASCO. "THERE IS ENOUGH WAR ON THE CONTINENT.' WE MUST START WITH TAKING AFRICAN PROBLEMS ONE STEP AT A TIME ,ONE NATION AT A TIME,STEP BY STEP WE WILL REACH ALL OUR OBJECTIVES". WE NEED TO START WITH JOB TRAINING VOCATIONAL JOBS IN ALL SECTORS WHICH WILL CREATE JOBS WITH VCATIONS ELECTRICAINS WILL MAKE PLENTY MONEY WHEN THEWY LEARN THE TRADE WITH THE PORWER SURGE THAT IS TO ATKE PLOACE ON THE CONTINENT WITH MORE BETTER SALARISE CARPENTERS BRICK LAYERS WILL BE MAKING MONEY WITH MORE HOUSES BEING BUILT BECAUSE OF INCREASES IN PAY PACKETS INTRODUCING A STRONG CIVIL SERVANT MIDDLE CLASS MINIMUM WAGE PACKETS THAT WILL PROVIDE FOR FAMILIES PEOPLE WILL WORK HARDER TO ACHEIVE WHAT THEY WANT.. WITH THESE THINGS AND EVERYONE BEING ABLE TO MEET A CERTAIN LIFE EXPECTANCY WE WILL IMPROVE THE LIVES FOR ALL AAFRICANS. WE CAN NOT LIVE OFF THE STANDARDS THAT WERE LEFT AND SET BY EUROPEANS WHO CAME TO AFRICA TO ENSLAVE EXPLOIT MANIPULLATE WITH DIVISIONS OF BROTHERS SISTERS THESE THINGS MUST BE ABOLISGHED!!". WE MUST SEE ALL OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS AS OUR EQUALS. WHEN WE WERE CREATED WE WERE CREATED EQUALLY WE MUST NOT CHANGE THE FUNDAMENTALS OF "OUR ALLMIGHTY FATHER" IT IS "HE2 WEMUST LIVE TO PLEASE HE WE MUST LOVE . WE CAN NOT LIVE WITH WARS MURDERS TERRORISM AS A WAY OF PLEASING "THE ALLMIGHTY GOD" WARS MURDERS CONFLICTS IN EVERY FACET EVERY DISTINGUISHING WAYS ALL FORMS OF LIFE TAKING IS CONTRADICTORY TO THE MORAL CODES AND ETHICS OF "LORD AND MASTER THE ALL MIGHTY GOD" 'WA SALAM ALAIKUM'