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Keep the peace, don’t enforce it, African Union tells Amisom
Amison peacekeepers from Uganda guard Somalia’s President Sheikh Sharif Ahmed in Mogadishu. Photo/FILE
By MICHAEL WAKABI
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Posted Monday, February 15 2010 at 00:00
Posted Monday, February 15 2010 at 00:00
At the heart of AU’s fears is the possibility of a drawn-out conflict similar to that in Afghanistan and Iraq. Africa lacks the resources to back such an undertaking.
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There`s no peace to keep in Somalia. Africa should now rise up and accept responsibility for solving African problems themselves, rather than waiting for America to do it. Peace enforcement is the only alternative left. Americans have failed in Afghanistan because they`re foreighners. Africans know how to deal with fellow Africans
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