Bashir accuses foreign aid groups of neocolonialism

President Umar Hasan al-Bashir on Monday hit out at unnamed foreign aid agencies, branding them a substitute of colonisation, and called on indigenous NGOs to do more to make them redundant, AFP reported. “The foreign aid organisations come to a country for implementing the colonisation programme, which contradicts the national interests of the people of that country,” the report quoted Bashir as saying at an official ceremony in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum. “We are now suffering a great deal from activities of those organisations, which have come to our country clad in charity, but many of them sow disputes and encourage subversive acts by some quarters,” said Bashir, without naming any of the agencies he was attacking. The Sudanese president called upon national NGOs to take up charitable activities so that Sudan could “prevent infiltration of some forces which do not work for the good of the country”.