Every single day one hoped to live in a peaceful world but the news of wars, conflicts, terrorism in all forms have become the order of the day. As child growing up in Africa, I ve found the war being fought mostly in Africa to rid the continent all forms of slaveries and colonialism, thought the cold war was the invisible force behind the theatre of war. The known conflicts then were the Palestinians and Israelis conflict since 1948, the Indian and Pakistani conflict over Kashimire, the Morrocan and the Saharawi people over Western Sahara, the Iraqi and Iranian war of 1982 - 1988 that its end came almost simultaneously with the Internation agreement to implement the UN resolution 435 of 1978 that paved the way for Namibia independence diplomatically after a long and protracted struggle for self-rule and independence. It was early 2009 the world got to hear I m reaching out to the Arab world to make peace and make the world peacful, where all people would live in harmony and co-exist irrespective of their skin colours, religions and the form of plitical systems they blieve in. It was said in Cairo right here in Africa. Suprisingly, early 2011 Tunisia gave birth to what in the western world affectionately known as the Arab springs few days later it replicated itself and engulfed the Arabic countries in Africa and beyond. Today the Arab springs and the ill-concieved war on terror concept ignited the Islamists zeal the world over, that caused and continuing to cause more deaths, human sufferings and properties destructions at unabated rate. The unprecedented level of violence and instabilities currently experienced in Egypt, Libya, Mali, Naigeria, Tunisia, Somalia, Afganistan, Iraq and Syria, could it be construed as the reach-out to the Arab world mr Barack Obama, the US president implied in his speech at Cairo University in 2009 during his first world tour when he became a president?
Posted on: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 16:58:37 +0000
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