Do aid cuts to Mauritania hurt Mauritanians?
Eric Witte September 18th, 2008
IRIN news takes a look today at the potential long-term effect of a broad freeze in western development aid to Mauritania following the August 6 coup. Some of that aid, for example from France, is already in the pipeline and continues to be disbursed, while other aid has stopped cold. IRIN reports that an EU-funded road project is on hold, and World Bank staff have left the country. The head of the EU delegation in Nouakchott is quoted as saying:
“It will take at least six months to one year for these aid cuts to really affect state operations [under the control of coup leaders]. And this is even truer as we anticipate a rise in oil revenue in the coming months. I think therefore military leaders can, withstanding everything else, survive the shock of this belt-tightening [reduction in donor assistance], which will not affect the everyday lives of Mauritanians.”
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On the other hand, the UN chief in Mauritania warns: “With the potential cutbacks, in the medium to long term, there is potential for greater hardship and more vulnerability [in Mauritania] to humanitarian crises.”
This may well be true, but because international emergency and humanitarian assistance is continuing, there is no short-term humanitarian crisis. Despite significant popular support for the coup, Mauritanian development is best served in the long-term through democratization, including establishment of the rule of law. The more pressure the international community can bring to bear on the revenue streams of the junta in the short term, the greater the chances that the democratic order can be restored, and medium-to-long-term suffering of the Mauritanian people averted. There is a clear correlation between undemocratic rule and corruption. If the junta is allowed to continue in power, Mauritania’s medium-to-long-term development can be expected to suffer, as it has for decades. In short, accomodating the new regime in the name of humanitarianism would be self-defeating.
It should be noted that the coup plotters accuse deposed president Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallahi of rampant corruption. If Abdallahi is restored to power, the opposition can pursue legal options against him, perhaps even leading to his ouster. As part of the deal for Abdallahi’s restoration to the presidency, the international community perhaps could provide material support to any investigation of the allegations against him that is conducted in compliance with the Mauritanian constitution.
Meanwhile, however, the pressure should mount for the junta to give up power. The IRIN report linked above cites the EU representative in Nouakchott as saying that no EU funds have been paid for the lucrative EU-Mauritanian fishing deal that had been due to take effect at the end of August, and which I blogged about again yesterday. That’s good news, but there’s still no word on official suspension of the deal, which EU Aid and Development Commissioner Louis Michel requested last month.
