Africa: Reality Check - Africa's Bid to Silence the Guns

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Both the value and the flaw of the African Union's (AU) Master Roadmap of Practical Steps to Silence the Guns in Africa by the Year 2020 is the breadth of its vision. In offering practical steps for realising the AU's ambitious plan to end conflict - adopted in 2013 as a flagship project of its wider developmental blueprint Agenda 2063 - the Master Roadmap identifies just about all of Africa's familiar ills as causes of its endemic violence.

Inequality, poverty, undemocratic behaviour, gross violations of human rights, proliferation of illegal arms, fragility of states, government corruption, illicit financial flows from the continent, uncontrolled exploitation of natural resources, climate change, lack of implementation by AU member states of the many treaties and decisions on these and other issues, the United Nations' failure to fund more of the AU's own peacekeeping efforts ... etc.

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