The UK controversial foreign aid policy has put on
hold the need for the control of population increase in several developing
countries. Many countries in developing countries funded by UK such as Rwanda
and Uganda do not see any need to control the increase of population
because UK claim that their foreign
aid help all children to access to education.
We believe that family planning in developing countries should not be halted by foreign aid and that
each nation should be the first responsible of
the education of their children. Developing countries’ should understand
that they should have children that they can educate, nourish and
treat when they are ill.
The problem of overpopulation continues to
affect the Democratic Republic of Congo where Rwanda is looking for new land to
settle their Tutsi people. For the last 18 years Rwandan poor and landless people have been moving to neighbouring countries
mainly Uganda for search of
agriculture land or to find farming jobs. In addition to this, evidence
shows that poverty and land scarcity
problems partly caused the Rwandan
genocide.
Museveni’s recent comments about the irrelevance of population control are the
evidence of his ignorant about economic
development issues. These comments should trigger changes in UK foreign aid
policy.
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