Rwanda?

[Berra]

I'm for one is into the not-killing-your-neuigbour-ism.

 

[panzerjay]

So a large scale operation is out of question. What about SF units? (capturing leaders? attacking radio stations? documenting incidents?) They would have the response time, it would be possible to say we tried and it might even have some psychological effect.

....another Battle of Mogadishu

 

[Fletch]

The only way to stop african bat-shit-insanity would be to redraw african borders in a sane and rational way, based of tribalism (what is nationalism but tribalism on a large scale?) And probably the best way to do this is let them go crazy and genocidal for a generation...let history work out the kinks untill things stabalize and the new african nations are actually viable states....otherwise, if we keep up the AU charde of "no new indepindent states allowed, no redrawing of boundrys." and keep bailing them out on a form of military-ecognomic lifesupport then africa will always be a bloody basketcase....you can let it bleed fast and maybe see the possibility of a bright future or you can see it bleed slow and be in darkness forever

africa has more then enough resources to become a birthplace for world super-powers, more so then europe

what it needs is pride,an identity, and a thing to fight and starve for

what it needs is NATIONALISM

Like when Idi Amin threw the Asians out of Uganda? Nationalism is the last thing I feel is needed.

If you start redrawing borders based on tribal affiliations now, it just encourages extreme nationalism(try drawing a defined border in Kenya which noone would argue with). You also ignore the situation of nomadic and semi-nomadic tribes of which there are several.

I agree a pride needs to be fostered, but I would argue that it some form of pan-Africanism would encourage development more than reverting to the pre-colonial borders.

An African trade-bloc with a single market and currency would have more influence than any other method and help restore the health of the African economy.