Photo: SA Govt As the dust settles in Addis, Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma won't have much time to celebrate. There's a continent to fix, after all. SIMON ALLISON runs through the issues that need the most urgent attention.
Bridging diplomatic divides
For better or worse – and the policy has always had its critics – the African Union, and the Organisation of African Unity which came before it, were both always based on the idea of consensus. Votes were for people who couldn't talk things through and reach a mutually beneficial agreement. While often completely impractical, this utopian vision helped forge those warm and fuzzy feelings of pan-Africanism and unity; sentiments which characterise much of the body's rhetoric.
But Dlamini-Zuma can forget about consensus for the time being. This toxic leadership battle has laid bare the continent's divisions. No, it's nothing to do with Francophone v. Anglophone; South Africa's key opponents were Kenya, Nigeria, and Ethiopia, all of whom are nominally in the Anglophone camp. Instead, it's geographic – and all about proximity to South Africa. We have a sphere of influence across the continent, one that extends over our borders as far up as Angola and Tanzania; beyond that, however, South Africa has now lost almost all of its political capital. And the hostility generated by the aggressive approach of both sides means that arguments over the continent's future are likely to be contested, probably with a bitterness rarely seen in Addis Ababa before this year. Someone is going to have to calm tensions and bridge these divisions. Unfortunately, that someone was part of the problem to begin with, and it will take all of Dlamini-Zuma's diplomatic powers to restore some semblance of unity to the continental body.
AU reform
The major stain against Jean Ping's record is that while he was elected as a technocrat, and given the mandate to turn the AU into a streamlined, modern organisation, he has done anything but that. The latest reliable figures are from January, and they are a damaging indictment of his ability to manage his resources. On the personnel side, the body has 324 vacant posts; that's some 48% of its staff complement. No wonder it struggles to get things done. And, surprisingly, money is not the issue here. On average, departments spend only 37% of their budget.
So, the challenge now is to fill these positions and get departments to spend their budgets. That's not as easy as it sounds. Finding qualified people and persuading them to move to Addis Ababa is always difficult, and there's a delicate balance to be struck between meeting budgets and just wasting money. But if the AU wants to be taken seriously, then it needs to happen, quickly.
Somalia
The war in Somalia is reaching a climax. Over the next couple of months, two things will happen that will dictate the course of the country for decades. First, the mandate of the Transitional Federal Government, the country's official government, which sits in Mogadishu and can't control even that without external assistance, expires. The idea is to replace the bloated, corrupt TFG with a more streamlined and representative government that might have a better chance of popular buy-in. Second, Kenyan troops – operating now as part of the African Union Mission in Somalia – will mount an assault on Kismayo, Al Shabaab's de facto capital and source of much of the militia's revenue. If their previous form is anything to go by, Al Shabaab will retire without much of a fight, knowing they can't win a conventional war, and focus instead on continuing their very effective guerilla campaign.
The best case scenario? That a lack of popular support and the creation of a new government, which is a genuine, inclusive alternative, undermines the rationale for Al Shabaab's support, making it harder and harder for the group to operate. The worst case scenario is something we're all familiar with from Afghanistan; an artificial, externally-supported government with little to no local support, and a rebel group able to wreak havoc at will, given legitimacy by the foreign invaders.
The position of the African Union, which by virtue of its military presence will lead negotiations around Somalia's future, could be the difference between these two outcomes. Strong leadership is required to avoid repeating mistakes made in the past – specifically, allowing political solutions to be dominated by the disastrous 'war on terror' rhetoric which denies the nuances of militant groups like the Taliban or Al Shabaab. If negotiators are clever, they will welcome certain elements of Al Shabaab back into the fold, specifically the powerful nationalist faction which is more interested in land rights than a global jihad. A genuinely inclusive government must, after all, include Al Shabaab, who for better or worse (for worse, most of the time, but still) have run most of the country for nearly a decade.
Mali
Mali is not a problem of the African Union's making. As the international effort to unseat Gaddafi gained steam last year, the AU was very clear that the Libyan intervention was a bad idea, partly because of the destabilising effect it would have on the entire region. And so it came to pass; fighters returning to Mali from Gaddafi's service sparked long-existing tensions in the north of the country. The rebellion there led to a coup which displaced the government based in the south, oft-praised for its commitment to democracy, creating the unbelievably messy situation we have today: an illegitimate national government in Bamako, a low-intensity civil war between the Islamist and (relatively) secular factions of the northern rebels, the still shadowy presence of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb in the vast desert, threats of international military intervention, and the destruction of some of Africa's finest heritage in Timbuktu.
The AU will have to lead efforts to clean up this mess. Already, they have lent support to the threats of West African regional body Ecowas to send troops to clean up the northern rebels. But a firmer hand might be needed: Ecowas itself is a compromised actor in Mali, trusted by neither the rebels nor the coup leaders. The other option is that the international community gets more involved, which is dangerous because the public pronouncements of the likes of the American government have made clear that it is al-Qaeda that they are really worried about – never mind that al-Qaeda has, at best, a marginal influence on the Malian quagmire, and is mostly irrelevant to the solution. Mali needs to sorted out, and quickly, because already the instability is taking on a regional dimension, with refugees flooding into neighbouring Niger, and Mauritania launching cross-border raids on the pretext of defending its own national security.
So what can the AU actually do? It's most important role is to ensure that intervention, if it comes, is aimed at solving the political problems rather than enforcing a particular world view. This may lead to uncomfortable accommodations with rebels and coup leaders, but it's a small price to pay for the return of some kind of stability to the Sahel. Again, strong, firm leadership is required – both to figure out a solution and to put a stop to potentially damaging solutions proposed by others.
The DRC
So far, the AU has been largely content to ignore the festering conflict in the eastern DRC, knowing it has its hands full in other arenas and that the United Nations – through its stabilising mission Monusco – is leading the international involvement there, with tanks and helicopter bombardments as deemed necessary. But slowly a local conflict is morphing into something larger and far more dangerous, with fighting on the Ugandan border and repeated reports that Rwanda is supplying the rebel movements with arms and even personnel. There are unmistakeable echoes in the situation now with the events in 1998 which precipitated one of the most catastrophic wars since World War II. Known as the Great African War, the fighting centred on the eastern DRC and drew in eight African countries, leaving hundreds of thousands dead and millions more displaced.
As the current tensions in the eastern Congo grow, so the AU will need to take a more active role in mediating the conflict; particularly, it will need to prevent neighbouring countries from getting involved with all guns blazing, turning a small but serious conflict into something much worse.
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IF THESE ARE ON THE AGENDA OF THE NEW AU CHIEF THEN I SAY AFRICA SHOULD SUPPORT HER WITH ENTHUSIAISM WE MUST MAKE IT CLEAR TO THE WORLD THAT ITS NOT WHAT THEY PERCEIVE FROM WASHINGTON OR PARIS BUT WHAT IS THE REALITY FOR AFRICANS. THE OBJECTIVE IS TO TAKE ALL THE ILLEGAL GUNS THAT WERE DUMPED INTO AFRICA BY THE WQEST OUT OF THE EQUATION ; GET OUR CHILDREN IN SCHOOL WITH HOPE OF LIVIKNG A UPRIGHT AND BRIGHT LIFE. WE WANT TO GIVE HOPE AND CLARITY TO ALL AFRICAS PEOPLE. THERE IS TOO MUCH DOOM AND GLOOM. LOOK AT WHAT WE ARE SEEINGT IN THE WEST, THEY ARE HOLDING A SPORTS EVENT WHICH BY DEFINITION IS A TIME FOR JOY PEACE FUN AND A CHANCE FOR THE TOP ATHLETES AROUND THE PLANET TO COMPETE. WHAT WE ARE GETTING IS A PLACE FILLED WITH GUNS GUNSHIPS AIRCRAFT CARRIERS ROCKETS ; THIS LOOKS L;IKE WE ARE GETTING READY FOR WAR!!!! THJIS ACVTUALLY IS VERY SCARY, BECAUSE OF THIER GREED AND CORRUPTION THEY ALLOWED THEMSELVES TO BITE OFF MORE THAN THEY CAN CHEW. THEY ARE NOW RELAYING THIS TO THE PEOPLE IN THE FORM OF FEAR??? WHY WHAT KIND OF WORLD IS THIS. . TO ME THIS IS THE WORST OLMPIC GAMES IN ALL HISTORY; SINCE WE HAVE HAD A UNITED WORLD WITH MOST OF THE EARTS POPULANTS PARTICIPATING IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER. THIS WILL PALE FAR IN DISTANCE TO THE CHINESE GAMES OG 08. MY POINT IS THAT BECAUSE OF THIER LIFESTYLES WHAT THEY HAVE CHOSEN THEY CAN NOT LIVE AN ORDINARY LIFE. THEY WANT THIS REFLECTED IN AFRICA WITH THIER FORIEGN POLICIES, I SAY WE REJECT THOSE POLICIES. I SAY WE DO NOT HAVE TO LIVE IN SUCH A CLIMATE OF FEAR. THERE IS NO ONE ON THE PLANET THAT CAN BE FEARED THAT MUCH. WE ARE A PEOPLE OF GRAND NOBILITY THEY DO NOT EVEN WHEN THEY SAY THEY DO BELIVE IN THE "ALL MIGHTY GOD" HALF AS MUCH AS WE DO. THERE ARE TIMES WHEN I THINK AFRICA NEEDS TO RECONSIDER HOW THEY PRAY ANDHOW THEY REPRESENT THE ALL MIGHTY GOD". WE MUST REMEMBER THAT NO MAN HAS SEEN THE FACE OF THE ALL MIGHTY GOD, NOT ADAAM NOAH LOT MOSES DAVID SOLOMAN ELISHA ELIJAH MANY HAVE SPOKEN TO "OUIRLORD" NONE HAS SEEN HIM. WE MUST BE WIZE AND LOOK AT THE UNIVERSE AND ALL THE GALAXIES WE MUST SEE OUR SUN OUR MOON WE MUST CONSIDER THE ENORMITY OF SUCH A GRAND CREATION; NO SIMPLE MIND OR ANY TYPE OF HUMANITY COULD EVER PRODUCE WITHIN THIER WILDEST DREAMS SUCH MAGNIFICENT ORGANISATIONS OF CREATION. WE ARE PART OF THIS CREATION AND AT ONE TIME WE WERE THE ONLY PEOPLE ON THE PLANETY. WE NEVER LIVED AS WE WERE TOLD WALKING AROUND AIMLESSLY HUNTING AND GATHERING. WHEN WE LIVED IN AFRICA WE BUILT GREAT THINGS WE WERE LIKE SUPER MEN WE WERE GIVEN THE SECRETS OF THE UNIVERSE AS WE ARE DEFINITIVELY PART OF THIS CREATION. WE WERER ALWAYS BUILDERS AND LOVERS OF THE SOIL FROM WHICH WE CAME. WE HAVE BEEN THE MASTERS OF OUR FAITH FROM THE BEGINNING IT IS TIME FOR US TO REASSUME OUR RGHTFUL PLACE IN WORLDS PROGRESSION. WE HAVE BEEN SENT TO THE BOTTOM OF THE PIT WE HAVE BEEN USED ABUSED STYGMATISED SPAT ON HUNG QUARTERED MUTILATED WE HAVE BEEN THERER WE KNOW WHAT IT IS LIKE TO BE SCORNED. WE ARE A WIZE PEOPLE WE CAN SEE THAT LIVING IN FEAR IS NOT THE WAY. THERE ARE NO GROUPS RIGHT NOW IN AFRICA THAT HAS ANY INETERST IN GPOING TO THE USA AND BOMBING THEM AS WAS STATED INTHE ARTICLE MOST AFRICAN MILITANTS ARE MORE CONTINENTAL THAN INTERNATIONAL THIS IS WHY WE MUST BUY OUT THIS ARGUMENT OF PROTECTING AMERICAN INETERST AND SECURITY CHA;L;LENGES THAT MIGHT !! MIGHT!! AFFECT THE USA??? THIS ALL CROCK AND DDUDUDU'. WE SEE THIER TYPE OF ACTION INSYRIA THEY ARE INTENT ON REGIME CHANGE THIS IS THIER WHOLE PHILOSOSPHY. THEY ARE MEETING OBJECTINS FROM THOSE WHO HAVE INTIATED THE AFRICAN DIALOGUE; THERE MUST EB DIALOGUE EVEN IF YOU FIGHT FRO FIFTY YEARS AT THE END YOU WILL HAVE DIALOGUE ,SO CUT TO THE CHASE USE ,OUR MENTAL CAPACITY FOR THOUGHT, BY IMPLIMENTING WHAT WILL BE THE ULTIMATE RESULT. WHAT THE WEST WANTS IS TO DO WHAT THEY DID IN COTE d' IVOIRE AND LYBYA. THEY WANT US TO BELIVE THAT IN SOMALIA THEY CAN TOTALLY WIPE OUT THE AL SHABAAB WHAT A WAY OF IMPORTING THIER WAR MACHINES AND KEEPING UP WARS AND CONFLICT IN AFRICA. THEY ARE DESPERATELY TRYING TO KEEP THE AFRICAN CONTINENT DYSFUNCTIONAL IT IS OUR DUTY AS AFRICANS TO BECOME ITS LIBERATORS. YOU CANNOT HAVE LOYALTIES TO YOUR FORMER COLONIALIST AND HAVE LYALTIES TO THE AFRICAN PEOPLE. WIZE WORD S ARE "EITHER YOU WILL LOVE THE ONE AND HATE THE OTHER" SO THERE CAN BE NO DIVIDED LOYALTIES EITHER "WE ARE ALL FOR ONE OR ALL FOR NONE" THIS IS THE PATH WE HAVE IN LIFE THOUGH MANY HAVE TAKEN THE TRUTH TO SOME VERY ULTRA ORTHODOX DIMENSIONS WHAT IS FUNDAMENATLLY TRUE IS THAT THERE ARE TWO ROADS IN LIFE TO CHOOSE THE "TARIGHT AND NARROW OR THE WIDE AND UNSURE ROAD"LIKE THE ARGUMENT BEING USED WE MUST MAKE CERTAIN CONCENSATIONS TO THOSE WHO HOLD VERY FUNDAMENTAL WAYS THIS DOES NOT MEAN THAT YOU HAVE LOST ; IT SIMPLY MEANS LIVE AND LET LIVE"THOSE WH WANT TO LIVE IN PURITY AND RIGHTEOUSNESS SHOULD HAVE THAT RIGHT THERE IS CERTAINLY NOTHING WORNG WITH THAT . "HE ONLY THING THEY ARE DOING IS TRYING TO MAKLE SURE THAT THEY ARE THE CHOSEN OF THOSE WHO WILL BE GRANTED THE GIFT OF ETERNAL LIFE" CERTAINLY WE SHOULD NOT ENVY THOSE WHO ARE THAT CONVINCED OF THIER RIGHTS FOR THAT GIFT. WE ALL NEED TO BE SURE THAT ORU HANDS AND HEARTS ARE CLEAN SO WE ALSO CAN ACCESS THAT WONDERFUL GIFT. THIS IS WHY WE MUST BE SURE OF ALL THE THINGS WE DO WE MUST LOOK INTO OUR PAST AND REMEBER THAT WE ARE THE AUTHORS OF THESE DIVINE BOOKS AND WE SHOULD TAKE THEM SERIOUSLY AND NOT READ ANY FALSE BELIEFS THAT UNDERMINES THE PURITY OF WHAT IS HELD UP TO THE SANDS OF TIME. RELIGION SHOULD BE SET UP TO HAVE A FORUM IN AFRICA WITH ALL THE TRUE BELIVERS SITTING TO LOOK AT WHAT THE BOOKS MEAN AND ALSO WHAT DID OUR PAST CULTURES HOLD DEARLY INREFERNCE TO THESE BOOKS. WHAT WE MUST ALSO KNOW FOR FUTURE TALKS IS THE FACT THAT WHAT THEY CALL THE MID EAST IS BEING OVER RUN BY EUROPEANS AND AMERICANS STEALING DOCUMENTS STEALING LANDS AND FORCING THE PEPLE OF PALESTINE AND JERUSALEM OUT OF THE REGION. WE MUST KNOW FOR A FACT THAT ALL THESE PLACES WERE THE KINGDOS OF ORU BLACK BROTHERSAND SISTERS FROM THE VERY BEGINNING. THIS IS WHY THEY PAINT PICTURES HDING THE TRUE PICTURES THAT DEFINE WHOM THE PEOPLE WERE WE USED THE WALLS OF CAVES WE USED A CERTAIN STYLE OF ARCHITECTURE THAT IS IDENTIFIABLE ALL OVER THE PLANET THIS CAN NOT BE EMULATED BY ANYONE. THIS WHY THEY WANT TO SAY TO S THAT WHAT WE DID OVER THE MILLINIUMS HAS BEEN FAR IN ADVANCE OF WHAT THEY ARE DOING THEY DUDG UP ALL OUR LOST TEXTS SCROLLS LOOTING ALL OUR PRECIOUS THOUGHTS. WHAT WE DID AS AFRICANS WAS TO LIMIT WHAT WE DIDI ON THE PLANET AS WE HAVE BEEN THE FIRST TO DO EVERY SINGLE THING YOU SEE BEING DONE ON EARTH. I WANT TOREMIND YOU THAT THESE PEOPLE JUST CAME OUT THE DARK AGES WE WERE TEACHING THE SAME ASTROLGY IN TIMBUKTU FIVE HUDRED YEARS BEFORE THEY EVEN RECOGNISED THESE THINSG. AGAIN I WILL REMIND READERS WE KNEW THE DIMENSION OF THE PLANET ALL THE SURROUNDED PLANETS WE KNEW THE WHOLE ENTYIRE SPAN OF THE UNIVERSE. WE WERE TAUGHT BY THE LIVING"ALL MIGHTY GOD". WE DID NOT SIT ON EARTH COMMING FROM THE MONKEY KINGDOM THEN ATTEMPTED TO USE OUR BRAIN THESE THINSG ARE FALACIES. WHAT EVER THY ARE DIGGING UP IS EXACTLY WHAT THEY ARE APES CHIMPANZEES AND MOPNKESY THAT PROBABLY WAS USED BY MAN IN SOME GENETIC EXPERIMENT. DO NOT BE FOOLED BY THJESE PEOPLE"" IS I WAS NOT CLEAR BEFORE PLEASE LISTEN NOW" " THERE IS NOTHING NEW UNDER THE FACE THE OF THE SUN NOT ONE THING NOTHING ATALL ; IF ITS HERE HOW T WAS BEFORE AND WILL BE HERE AGAIN"" AFRICA NEEDS TO COMPREHEND THIS WITH ALL THIER MIND. WE WERE NEVER BORN DUNCE NOR WERE WE ANY HUNTER GATHERERS WE FUOUNDED MULTIPLE GREAT CIVILIZATIONS EVER SINCE UR CONCEPT AS HUMANITY" AGAIN I WILL MENTION THAT THIS IS WHY WE FIND MOSTLY EVERYTHING WE NEED ON THIS PLANET TO MAKE A MO0DERN OR DISATEROUS CIVILIZATION. WHAT THEY HAVE DONE IS DUG UP OUR PAST WHAT WE HAVE PIUT DOWN BECAUSE OF ITS MISUSE. EXACTLY WHAT WE FEARED IS WHAT THEY HAVE DONE THEY HAVE MIUSUSED OUR NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY, ANOTHER THING IF THEY CAN GIVE TO YOU YOUR OWN RELIGIN REWRAPPED AS THIERS WHAT ELSE HAVE THEY BEEN GIVING TO US OR NOT GIVING TO US. WHY ARE THE MOST OSTRACISED WHY ARE THEY SO DETREMINED TO TAKE JERUSALEM WHY? WHY ARE THEY DENYING BLACK PEOPLE THIER HERITAGE ? WHY WAS THE SLAVERY OF THE BLACK MAN SO METHODICALLY PLANNED WITH SUCH BARBARITY AND WICKEDNESS? WHY? WE ARE WHOM THEY KNOW IN ALL THIER FINDINSG AS THE GODS. EVEN IN HINDU ANCIENT TEXT THEY REVER THE BLACK MAN TO SUCH A HIEGHTS THAT THE PAINTINSG HAVE APPEARED TO BE BLUE. HOWEVER IN ALL CIVBILIZATIONS THE BLACK MA NWAS REFEERD TO AS GODS" THIS WAS BECAUSE OF THE IZE INTELLECT THAT WAS PART AND PARCEL OF THE BLACK RACE. WE SHOULD HOLD OUR HEADS HIGH AND TODAY BEGIN A NEW VIBRATION FOR AFRICAN UNITY WE MUST SEEK TO REDRESS ALL THE WORNGS THAT WERE INSTITUTIONALISED BY THE EUROPEANS". THERE IS ENOUGH WEALTH ON THE CONTINENT WHICH SHOULD BE USED WIZELY FAR REMOVE YOURSELVES FROMTHE GREED AND COVETIOUSNES THAT IS NOW THE RUINATION OF THEIR CORRUPT EMPIRES. THERE IS NO WAY THAT THEY COULD LAST FOREVER WHAT THEY DID TO AFRICA WAS UNAPOLGETIC THERE IS NO SORRY THAT WOULD OR SHOULD EVEN BE CONSIDERED EVEN THOUGH THEY SAY THEY WOULD NEVER. THAT IS OK" WEW WONT FEEL SORRY FOR THEM WHEN THEY COME TUMBLING DOWN EITHER!!!!. THEY LIVE IN AN APOLOGETIC COMMUNITY THEY GO INTO AFGHANISTAN THEY MURDER WITH IMPUNITY THEY SAY SORRY; THEY GO INTO PAKISTAN THEY SAY SORRY; THEY ROB ANDSTAEL TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS THEY SAY SORRY!!!; THEY ARE A SORRY LOT, THEY ARE ALWAYS SORRY!!!. THIER CRIMINALITY IS FORGIVABLE HOWEVER THE ENOURMITY ??? WHAT WE FIND WHEN THE AFRICAN IS TRULY READY FOR FORGIVING AND LIVING IN HARMONY HE COMES IN WITH HIS BIG TALK ABOUT JUSTICE FOR THE PEOPLE AND ALL THIS FOOLISHNESS WHERE AFRICANS HAVE TO GO TO EUROPE TO GET JUSTICE ??? IS NOT THIS ABSURDITITY FOOLISHNESS OF GIGANTUM PROPORTIONS ? IS NOT THIS UTTER FOLLY?? WHY ARE NT THEY SENDING WARRANTS FOR THOSE THIEVES AND MURDERERS IN TELAVIV WHY? THEY COMMITE GENOCIDE ADILY THEY STEAL AND FORCE PEOPLE MIGRATIONS DAILY WHAT IS THAT CRIME EXCUSABLE ??? WHAT ABOUT THE PHONY IRAQ WAR WHICH WAS SOLELY FOR PROFIT !!! THEY SIDETRACKED THE UN COMMITTING VORACOIS WAR CRIMES DOCUMENTED WAR CRIMES WHY ARE NOT THEY BEING PROSECUTED AT THE HAGUE? THEY MAKE UP STOIRES OF BLACK MEN WHICH IS WHAT THEY DID IN LIBYA WHERE THEY FLEW 26,000 SORTIES DROPPED 20,000 LBS OF ORDINACES OF PLUTONIUM BASED BOMBS AND NT ONLY THAT THERE IS DOCUMENTED EVIDENCE OF THEM DROPPING CLUSTER BOMBS WHICH IS A BANNED ORDINACE; THEN SLLY DECEIVEING THEY TRIED TO BLAME IT ON GADAFFI "!!!!DID WE FORGET ALL THESE THINGS??? WHY ARE NT WE HEARING OF WARRANTS FOR THESE MURDERERS, WHY!!!?:? THE ICC IS NOT A FORCE THAT SHOULD BE CONSIDERED BEFORE WE AS AFRICANS DEVELOP OUR INTERNATIONAL STANDARSD OF JUDICIAL JURISPRUDENCE. WHEN WE SEE THE FOLLY OF THE WEST WITH THE USE OF THE ICC IT IS NOT BASED ONLAW OR REALITY WE SEE HUGE GOROSS CRIMES BEING PERPETRATED BY THIER FREINDS AND THERE IS NO MENTION. WHAT ABOUT THE SUADIS IN BAHRAIN IS THAT NOT WAR CRIMES MURDERING PEOPLE IN ANOTHER NATION IN COMPLICITY WITH THOSE WHOM ARE NOT ELECLCTED NOR ARE THEY DEMOCRATIC BUT AUTHORITARIAN STATES, WHO MURDERS THIER PEOPLE WITH IMPUNITY!!!!! WHY IS NT THE ICC DOING ITS JOB? A2AFRICANS MUST STAND UNITED FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE WE HAVE BECOME MULTIETHNIC BUT ONE THING IS SURE "
"WE THE MAJOURITY OF ALL AFRICANS ARE ONE BLOOD" " ONE GOD ,ONE LOVE ,ONE BLOOD, ONE HEART, ONE DESTINY" "MAY "ALL MIGHTY GOD" GUIDE THE HAND THIS GREAT LADY WHOM IS FOR SURE A REVOLUTIONARY AND KNOWS THE WILL OF THE AFRICAN PEOPLE; MAY SHE BE ENCOURAGED BY HERN SPIRIT FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THE PEOPLE OF AFRICA. MAY PEACE LOVE HARMONY QUALITY JSUTICE RIGHST FOR EVERY SINGLE AFRICAN BE PROTECTED BY THE VISION OF THIS HGREAT WOMAN WHO HAS BEEN GIVEN THIS JOB BY TRHE LEADRS THEMSELVES WHO FELT THAT THEYWEWRE NOT DOING WHAT THEY SHOULD AND I APPLAUD THESE MEN OF INTEGRITY WHO WILL NOW DO WAHT ITS WE REQUIRE BY THE CONSTITUTION THAT IS PROPRITORIAL OVER THE CONTINENT. WE WANT TO SEE THT ALL GOVERNMENTS ARE GOVERNED BY LAWS THAT ENHRINE THE PEOPLE THRU THIER PARLIAMENST AND THIER ELECTED PRESIDNTS BE UNHINDERED IN THIER DESIRE TO DO THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE" RULWE BY DICTATION OR RULE FOR THE PROVCATION OF OUTSIDE WILL IS NOT ACCPETBLE. I ASSERTAIN THAT WE NEED A ROLE FOR THE GENERALS OF AFRICA TO SIT DOWN AND PROTECT THE HUMUNGUS BORDERS OF AFRICA FROM DURGS WEAPONS ILLEGAL DUMPING PIRATES AND THE OVER ALL SECURITY OF AFRICA. WE HAVE NAVIES E HAVE AIRFORCES WE NEED THEM TO BE TRAINED WITH THE MOTS EFFICIENT PROFESSIONALISM WE DO NOT HAVE TO HAVE THE MOST MODERN BUT WE NEED THE MOST EFFECTIVE. WE NEED TO BUILD AFRICA. DICTATORS WITH SMALL VISIONS WHO THINKS THEY ARE OING RIGHT BY THE PEOPLE IS CONFUSED AND OUT DATED? THERE IS NO WAY WHEN THE PEOPLE DEMAND CHANGES AND YOU CAN NOT ADFOPT TO THESE NE WAYS THEN YOU ARE NOT CREDIBLE YOU ARE NOT EVLVING WITH THE PEOPLE. THESE TYPES OF MEN MUST STEP ASIDE SO THAT THE PROGRESSION OF THE PEOPLE MAY INCREASE THIER BETTERMENT IN THIS WORLD" WITH THIS GREAT RICH WEALTHY CONTINENET WHAT IS NEEDED IS TO PERFORM UP TO THE STANDRADS WHERE WE CAN MAINATIN A PROPER LIFE STYLE FOR ALL AFRICANS. WE MUST REMEMBER THE GADAFFI SOLLUTION INDEPENDENT IN EVERY WAY NOT DEPENDENT ON FOOD MINERLAS GAS OILS THEY PROVIDED EVERYTHING FOR THEMSELVES WE WANT6 TO HAVE ALL AFRICA COMMITTED TO SLEF PRESERVATION WITH SELF DETREMINATION WHERE PROVISIONS FOR ALL NECCESSITIES ARE MADE AVAILABLE TO THE PEPLE WITHOUT GOING OUTSIDE THE CONTINENT. WE MUST KEEP IN MIND THAT EVEN WESTERN ECONOMICS FINACIERS SUGGEST TO AFRICA THAT INWARD LOOKING IS A GREAT THING IT WOULD IMPROVE THE LIVESTYLES OF THE MANY. WHAT THEY WANT TO DO IS FOSTER CONFLICTS AND SHUT BORDERS SOW E DO NOT HAVE THESE OPEN TRADE AND FREE MOVEMENST THEY WANT TO EB ABLE TO CENTRALISE THIER CONTROL OVER AFRICA THEY WANT TO PLAY GOD . THEY WANT EYES IN THE SKY THEY WANT ROOPS UNDER THIER ULTIMATE COMMAND. WHAT THEY DO IN SOVEREIGN NATUIONS THEY SELECT PEOPLE TO THEN COMPROMISE THEM SO THEY PERFORM FOR THIER INETERST. THIS WHY WE NEED TO SET UP A PROPER MILITARY COMMAND STRICTURE SIMILAR TO THIER OWN WITHOUT THE IDEOLOGY OF HEGEMONY" WE NED TO REGULATE OUR MILITARY SO WE DO NOT SEE WHAT WE SEE INEGYPT WITHHOLDING THE PROGRESS OF THE CONTINENT BGY BLOCKING THE ELECTED PARLIAMENT TO SUCCEED WITH IMPLIMENTING LAWS ,IT IS NOT UP TO THEM TO DECIDE WHAT THE PEOPLE WANTS. THEY VOTED FOR WHAT THEY WANTED. WHAT THEY GOT WAS NOT WHAT THE JEWS AND THE CIA WASHINGTON WANTS. WE NEED A IMPERIALIST FREE AFRICA; THERE IS TOO MUCH BAGGAGE WHEN IT COMES TO THE WEST! WE WILL NEVER EVER PROGRESS SHOULD WE BE HELD AS SUBOURDINATES OF THE WEST!!!!!!WE NEED TO GO OUTSIDE THE BOX DO OUR THING AND SEE TO IT THAT WE AAS RESPECTED AS ANY OTHER GROUP ON THE PLANET."AFRICA IS ONE INDIVISBLE UNDIVIDED BY ETHNICITY OR SECTS WE ARE ALL ONE BLOOD"