Is the world financial crisis affecting us?

The situation may look the same for the simple citizen in Africa or Asia, but on the ground, no one would be spared even the simple Payson in the rural villages, according to many experts in the field.

In order to shed much light on the subject, let’s focus more on the trail of devastation it left on the American life and economy. Beyond the historical presidential election which have seen the American people electing for the first time in history an African American as a president, this crisis have pushed this newly elected president, to urge the senate to vote more than $700 billions as a stimulus package, and he promised that every penny of this money would be spent wisely.

As a result of his plan of recovery, Mr Barack H. OBAMA linked the state bail-out to more controls and more presence from the state in the decision making board of those companies and banks who would benefit from it. Only this step alone may undermine the liberal system and see more interventions from the state in the economy, which’s was unimaginable a few years ago. Also needless to say these measures, will bring down the amount of aids money which would go to the developing countries across the world, and if we remember that the USA is the biggest world aid donors we understand that if they get a cough the rest of the world especially the developing world get fever.

Sport in Mauritania:

In Nouakchott, the capital of the country there are only a handful places for practicing, and people didn’t flock in either. The sports time doesn’t exist in the mind of the majority of the people, while there’s time for businesses, for entertainment for debates and many other things.

If you reach a certain age, and you dare wear a sport jacket out in the street, you will attract the people attention, and comments. In Nouakchott, it’s almost forbidden to go jogging if you’re a grown person, and people see it as a shameful and childish activity.

Even though, the science have proved the benefits of the sport and its role in improving the health and preventing body from many serious diseases, in Mauritania we still reluctant to do it, and prefer queuing in front of the hospital gates, paying medical bills and destroying our body by chemical treatments usually without any result.

The Mauritanians dream:

The question I’m going to try and answer through the following lines is: what is the dream of the average Mauritanian citizen?
We all know that every person has a dream which’s usually shaped by his country’s resources and the opportunities his government offers to him.

Our country Mauritania is a western African country with about three million inhabitants, and more than 650 km of Atlantic coast which’s considered to be one of the world best place for fishing, adds to that a flourishing mining sector (iron, diamond, gold, copper…etc) and a rising oil output (today about 17000 barrel a day).

In the other hand our country adopted a decades ago many measures in order to attract investors from all over the world, by liberalizing telecoms sector (three cell phone operators), transport system (private airline companies) and especially the financial sector where you can find many big international Banks like Société Générale and BNP PARISBAS.

Everyone will say that’s more than enough for any person to start thinking about big projects and many ways to get rich easily and lawfully and realizing his dream.

So, what is the dream of the average Citizen in Mauritania? Before answering this question you should bear in mind the fact that, the Mauritanian people still refuse the Globalization and stick to his desert habits and customs, where as a matter of fact you can find a true answer to our question. The dream of the average Mauritanian citizen is stunning because it's buying a car and whatever his brand or his shape, old, new are the same, because for him cars replace the camels in today’s life, and everything else is rubbish, including education, good manner, sports, realising economical success by hard work ....etc.

Changing side:

Today for me it’s stupid to refuse the democratic rules which allow people to change their government team, according to a general agreed law called the constitution, peacefully and without any drop of blood.

Denying the benefit of this system, call into mind that you prefer the rules of the jingle, which allow those with strong arms to govern without any other criterion. Unfortunately if we do so we undermine our future, because no thing could be guaranteed, and at any time a violent change can happen with a lot of blood shed and a lot of pain.

The democratic system gives the same chance to every citizen, so everyone feels able to succeed because the game is fair. In the democratic system people spend their time and their energy in building and developing their country and in the jungle system of law people spend their time and energy in order to whip out the other, the enemy.