The Sudanese chargé d’affaires in Kigali, Idrees Muhammed Ali, has called on African countries to work together to be able to defeat "the double standards imposed on us by the west”."They are dividing African countries in order to rule them. So what we could do to stop the double standards is to strengthen our regional integration, strengthen the African Union and promote sub regional organisations,” he said during an exclusive interview with The New Times last week.He observed that if African countries fail to address their internal problems, then others will intervene and impose their will. "Let’s find our own solutions, home-grown solutions, African solutions; we should help each other and leave no chance for others to come and dictate matters,” he added, citing the current crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo."We should resolve it together as Africans and don’t allow any other international actor to come and devise the solution for us.”He called for relations between Africa and the west that are based on mutual respect. "Cooperation should not be about giving conditions. You have China, for example, that is gaining ground because they are not intervening in our situations, they are not telling us: do this, do that. They are just partnering with us and we had a very successful meeting of Africa-China cooperation recently”.See full interview on full on page 14 and 15.