It’s official: Mozambique’s Catholic Archbishop is barking mad.

Archbishop Francis Chimoio of Mozambique has accused the west of sending HIV infected condoms and retrovirals to Africa to ‘finish the Africans off’.

That’s an Archbishop, the chap who has a wooly scarf presented by the Pope to signify his spiritual brotherhood with the Big Heiliger Hund in the Vatican. He should be sacked and his medication reviewed, since the man is unfit to hold office, and is crucifix-chewingly mad. Now, as a once colonial occupier, Britain and our European colonists colleagues are not completely blameless (but Africa has had a while to get over it), but if we withdrew all our NGOs, aid workers, charity donations, development aid, 4×4s, research, pills and rubber johnnies then you’d see the continent die even faster.

Archbishop, go look in Rwanda, Congo, Ethiopia, Sudan and Zimbabwe (probably a few more basket cases, too). Africa seems to be perfectly capable of slaughtering its own with starvation, maladministration and machetes and without any help from us. Archbishop go look up the story of the mote in another man’s eye and the plank in your own.