footloose said:
I still can’t figure out for the life of me why are they still asking for help. They got all the natural resources.
Why don’t they build they own shit and mine they own resources. Amd leverage that'
The problems are more complex than just that, for example, you can have the natural resources but if you lack the technology to mine them its worthless, unless you get a contractor to mine if for them unfortunately most of Africa's minerals and other resources are very hard to get to. Matter of fact, due to the harsh environment, lack of transportation infrastructure, and even things like diseases from mosquitos and flies, this makes getting to it more difficult than most country's resources.
Even if you were able to properly mine the resources, getting it out of most African Nations, at a large scale would be very difficult especially because many of the countries are landlocked, and other than the Nile, most rivers like the Congo River are too rough for boats while it being very few reliable railways.
But the biggest problem would be them trying to protect their resources from other countries and even people who are trying to loot.
Like I said its seems very simple into you start investigating and weighing out all of the variables.