Africa is a continent that the Western, mostly-white-run world has an incredibly troublesome history with. I suspect this is giving us (in the US) internal fits when we try to decide what to do. Almost anything short of sending direct aid makes it look like we are abandoning them and sending direct aid looks suspiciously like a military invasion (because we'll be sending armed troops).

We haven't even figured out how to "deal with" black people here in the US and those guys over there, well, they're foreign black people.