Sky's the limit... unless you are from Africa

The Chicago Tribune reports that the European Union released a list of 92 airlines that are condemned from flying to European airports. Reason being, that much of these carriers lack security oversight for their airliners.

Of them, most of the carriers are from Africa:
50 from Congo
14 from Sierra Leone
7 from Swaziland
Liberia
Equatorial Guinea
Kenya

Hardly a surprise?

Air Mauritania was given a grace period to meet security standards set by the EU. Ariana Afghan airlines and a carrier from North Korea have also been restricted to flying to Europe.

Alright so banning airlines telling them to meet certain standards understandable... but how do you expect that when most of these airlines are from Africa and belong to nations that are even below third world to invest money and time into "airlines" rather than trying to fix their own problems?

Sierra Leone and Congo are not even remotely close to stable... Meanwhile, the EU plans on sending troops to Congo for a peacekeeping mission. You'd think the organization keeps communication open between all its units... who really cares about blacklisted airlines now?

The EU says:

The use of poorly maintained, antiquated or obsolete aircraft, the inability of the airlines involved to rectify the shortcomings identified during the inspections and the inability of the authority responsible for overseeing an airline to perform this task.

Wow... you think so? How about a little something called foreign investment? Maybe that would help. Can any of the nations afford the latest model Boeings and Airbus? Obviously none of these nations on the list could care less about an airline blacklist... this just doesn't help.