Showing posts with label military. Show all posts
Showing posts with label military. Show all posts

Monday, October 21, 2013

Ugandan peacekeepers' bosses 'sold' guns in Somalia

This article about the behavior of the peacekeepers from Uganda in Somalia is nothing short of a Hollywood movie. Appropriate investigation into the behavior of other African peacekeeping forces there should give the world a broad overview of what might be going  there in the name of peace.
Read full article by the Daily Monitor

Wednesday, August 21, 2013

African conflicts: Why a change is needed in African forces?

On July 29, 2013 a video that depicted a group of supposedly Congo Brazzaville presidential guards stripping naked a group of refugee women from the Democratic Republic of the Congo went viral on social media networks. Despite the gravity of the deed, there was no appropriate response from the country’s authorities.
The only audible but fledgling voice that was raised to condemn this heinous act was that of the president’s wife. This situation, emblematic of a culture of brutality developed by uniformed men in many African countries in the last few decades, requires attention and action. Read full article on News24

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