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Professor Adriano Moreira warned this Thursday of the risks of a bet on war after the Covid-19 pandemic, as was the case in the 100-year war that followed the Black Death in the Middle Ages.
The former president of CDS participated in the XX Digital Conference of the Energy and Climate Forum, entitled “Vision of the future”, which also included the participation of former Prime Minister of Cape Verde José Maria Neves, former President of Mozambique Joaquim Chissano and the former head of the Government of Guinea-Bissau Domingos Simões Pereira.
Adriano Moreira, for whom “The international order is absolutely violated,” he was apprehensive with the post-Covid-19, referring to the pandemic as “an attack on the health of humanity.”
“As with the Black Death in the Middle Ages, it is better not to go back to war,” he said, alluding to the 100-year war (1337-1453, between France and England), which followed the most devastating pandemic in the history of mankind.
The academic, who has repeatedly criticized the stance of Donald Trump, whom he called the leader of the world’s greatest power, posed a question: “Is it reasonable that the Mediterranean is turning into a graveyard?”.
I know there are security problems, but no one can turn the Mediterranean into a cemetery, “he said.
Among the current threats, Adriano Moreira listed “the special charm that the president of the United States has for building walls,” but also the state of the oceans and the African continent, far from the rainbow dreamed of by Mandela.
In his speech, the former president of Mozambique Joaquim Chissano listed the various weaknesses of this country, due to its location and the extreme phenomena that afflict itsuch as cyclones, earthquakes or locust infestations.
These phenomena, he said, have been such and have left such a trail of destruction that they have even inspired poems and songs from the Mozambican people.
For his part, the former Prime Minister of Cape Verde Jose Maria Neves He recalled how the archipelago, since the arrival of the Portuguese in the 15th century, has suffered the effects of the drought, water scarcity and desertification.
Throughout our history we have had very difficult periods, such as droughts, famines, deaths, and the forced emigration of Cape Verdeans was necessary to seek better living conditions in the world ”, he said.
A situation that changed “thanks to the international order that emerged from the Second World War” that forced the Portuguese state to take measures so that Cape Verde did not continue to starve. But difficulties persist, mainly due to the vulnerability “from an ecological and economic point of view”, common to island countries like Cape Verde, he said.
José Maria Neves defended the construction of “a vision for the future of Africa”.
Whoever leads countries like ours, in the stage of development they are in, needs a vision of the future, but also strategies that catalyze the process of sustainable development ”, he said.
And he added: “Africa can take an extraordinary leap in this 21st century, if it has mobilizing leaders.”
Domingos Simões Pereira, former Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau, recognized the importance of aid from more developed countries, but stressed: “We are more focused on values than on the need to establish priorities of what is most important for our populations.”
We cannot keep looking at the impact of the new strategy for Africa, assuming that the most developed countries will allocate part of their income, “he added.
For Domingos Simões Pereira, “Africa needs to learn that a prosperous Africa is not only good for Africans. We have to stop being burdens, be a destination for opportunities, for investments ”.
