Senegal offers land to Haitians

digme

Senegal's president says he will offer free land and "repatriation" to people affected by the earthquake in Haiti.
President Abdoulaye Wade said Haitians were sons and daughters of Africa since Haiti was founded by slaves, including some thought to be from Senegal.
"The president is offering voluntary repatriation to any Haitian that wants to return to their origin," said Mr Wade's spokesman, Mamadou Bemba Ndiaye.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8463921.stm

phantom_lord

lol that dude looks like a black alien

Simi

Migrate to Africa, to escape hardship? That's a perfectly normal english sentence...

Hank_Jones

phantom_lord wrote: »

lol that dude looks like a black alien

I laughed reading the post, then I clicked the link.

In bloody stitches now, that's one freaky looking guy.

JONJO THE MISER

Wow well done Sengal. I wonder will the U.S.A take in some refugees, hightly doubt it.

jd007

phantom_lord wrote: »

lol that dude looks like a black alien

I couldn't resist clicking the link after a statement like that! Freaky!

marcsignal

phantom_lord wrote: »

lol that dude looks like a black alien

Yeah :eek: what's he going to do to help ? Eat the dead ?

Rabies

http://www.starwarsholidayspecial.com/images/photos/cantina/unknown_alien.jpg

4zn76tysfajdxp

Rabies wrote: »

http://www.starwarsholidayspecial.com/images/photos/cantina/unknown_alien.jpg

That "no hotlinking" image makes you look incredibly racist.

Rabies

Incredibly? No.

Simi

Simi wrote: »

Migrate to Africa, to escape hardship? That's a perfectly normal english sentence...

Relativly speaking Senegal is wealthy, and has good land for agriculture - those that can actually get there (who's paying the fare?) will arrive to nothing though, they'll have to start from scratch.

humanji

For everyone like me who doesn't know where Senegal is: http://boards.ie/vbulletin/attachment.php?attachmentid=102967&stc=1&d=1263805703

humanji

humanji wrote: »

For everyone like me who doesn't know where Senegal is: http://boards.ie/vbulletin/attachment.php?attachmentid=102967&stc=1&d=1263805703

Just to add to that a quick country profile http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/country_profiles/1064496.stm

biko

Fair play Senegal!

dlofnep

phantom_lord wrote: »

lol that dude looks like a black alien

Racist.

PS: G'wan Senegal!

m@cc@

phantom_lord wrote: »

lol that dude looks like a black alien

http://inneedofpeace.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/marvin-the-martian.jpg

bonerm

So will they be African Americans then?

wes

Well, that is a generous offer, but I think people from Haiti will have a great deal of difficulty even leaving the country.

artanevilla

Rabies wrote: »

Incredibly? No.

Comically? Yes.

Run_to_da_hills

wes wrote: »

Well, that is a generous offer, but I think people from Haiti will have a great deal of difficulty even leaving the country.

Can't be any different than those that left Ireland in the 1840ies.

Itsdacraic

Senegal? Sure isn't that a crime ridden ****hole with no running water?

Oh sorry wait, I'm getting it confused with Fingal.

DonJose

Thats nothing new, Ireland gave the Nigerians Blanchardstown

Hyperbullet

Will the land have road frontage?

syklops

Yet another comedy* filled Haiti thread

Personally I think the Mods should put an embargo on the subject. There is nothing funny about any part of the situation.




* I use the term loosely

El Siglo

JONJO THE MISER wrote: »

Wow well done Sengal. I wonder will the U.S.A take in some refugees, hightly doubt it.

They did back in the good ole days, it didn't go down well with anyone...

ScumLord

syklops wrote: »

There is nothing funny about any part of the situation.

Are you sure it's not just that you've no sense of humour?

m@cc@

syklops wrote: »

Yet another comedy* filled Haiti thread

Personally I think the Mods should put an embargo on the subject. There is nothing funny about any part of the situation.




* I use the term loosely

Now now, lets not be too Haiti.

ejmaztec

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

Can't be any different than those that left Ireland in the 1840ies.

If all of their descendants came back, we'd all have to sleep standing up.

bonerm

ejmaztec wrote: »

If all of their descendants came back, we'd all have to sleep standing up.

Or we could just investigate better methods of urban planning.

El Siglo

bonerm wrote: »

Or we could just investigate better methods of urban planning.

Yeh that's never going to happen.

walshb

As soon as the Irish get wind of this we'll be out to out do the Senegalese.
I reckon we will adopt Haiti. Beat that Senegal.....

Archeron

Fair play President Abdoulaye Wade, nice to see such a wide encompassing gesture to your fellow man in the aftermath of such a tragedy.

bonerm

El Siglo wrote: »

Yeh that's never going to happen.

I was being facetious. The day Ireland has anything resembling a modern urban landscape is the day people realise that land is a lie and give up our property ownership fetish. It'll be the end of the country as we know it.

ArmaniJeanss

JONJO THE MISER wrote: »

Wow well done Sengal. I wonder will the U.S.A take in some refugees, hightly doubt it.

I doubt it as well, the US has a dreadful record when it comes to taking in the poor and the huddled masses.

El Siglo

ArmaniJeanss wrote: »

I doubt it as well, the US has a dreadful record when it comes to taking in the poor and the huddled masses.

Yeh, look at these lazy smiling fuckers sitting around...;)

bonerm wrote:

I was being facetious. The day Ireland has anything resembling a modern urban landscape is the day people realise that land is a lie and give up our property ownership fetish. It'll be the end of the country as we know it.

Yeh that's never going to happen...;) Pity, can you imagine what the place would look like if we had proper planning, we could give Haitians a region of our own, in fact isn't there a nice fertile part of the country in the North East comprising of six counties?:D

walshb

This move may at this time seem nice and honest and genuine, but what happens when the Senegalese want the land back?

ejmaztec

ArmaniJeanss wrote: »

I doubt it as well, the US has a dreadful record when it comes to taking in the poor and the huddled masses.

They seem to forget that, if it weren't for the poor and huddled masses emigrating their in the first place, there wouldn't be a United States.

Archeron

walshb wrote: »

This move may at this time seem nice and honest and genuine, but what happens when the Senegalese want the land back?

The president will use his spaceship to send them all to Planet Marklar.

Or to put it another way, the marklar will use his marklar to send them all to marklar marklar.

ejmaztec

walshb wrote: »

This move may at this time seem nice and honest and genuine, but what happens when the Senegalese want the land back?

I bet he had his fingers crossed behind his back when he said it.

walshb

ejmaztec wrote: »

They seem to forget that, if it weren't for the poor and huddled masses emigrating their in the first place, there wouldn't be a United States.

Yeah, but enough is enough....

El Siglo

Archeron wrote: »

The president will use his spaceship to send them all to Planet Marklar.

Or to put it another way, the marklar will use his marklar to send them all to marklar marklar.

Yeh but then there'll be marklar coming to change their marklar, and with more marklar, the marklar will have more and more marklar and it'll take another marklar or whatever marklar affects marklar and we're back at square marklar.

ejmaztec

walshb wrote: »

Yeah, but enough is enough....

They must still have some desert going spare.

mikom

digme wrote: »

Senegal's president says he will offer free land and "repatriation" to people affected by the earthquake in Haiti.

All I require is your bank account details, sort code and security question.

The_Minister

walshb wrote: »

This move may at this time seem nice and honest and genuine, but what happens when the Senegalese want the land back?

AFAIR, Senegal has a fairly low population density, so they probably could give them land somewhere and not expect it back, especially if the Haitians (sp?) assimilated well.

bonerm

phantom_lord wrote: »

lol that dude looks like a black alien

He's a distinctive looking fella and that's for sure!

walshb

The_Minister wrote: »

AFAIR, Senegal has a fairly low population density, so they probably could give them land somewhere and not expect it back, especially if the Haitians (sp?) assimilated well.

Well, that IMO is a big IF. No person should have the right or authority to "give away" land.

If history has taught us anything, it is that Land&Religion are the two most
damning causes of international conflict.

ejmaztec

ejmaztec wrote: »

They seem to forget that, if it weren't for the poor and huddled masses emigrating their in the first place, there wouldn't be a United States.

There would, but it would probably be dominated by Germans, French & Italians and of course the British and Spanish, plus just about every other European migerant.

phantom_lord

dlofnep wrote: »

Racist.

PS: G'wan Senegal!

bit harsh imo