WARNING: This is Version 1 of my old archive, so Photos will NOT work and many links will NOT work. But you can find articles by searching on the Titles. There is a lot of information in this archive. Use the SEARCH BAR at the top right. Prior to December 2012; I was a pro-Christian type of Conservative. I was unaware of the mass of Jewish lies in history, especially the lies regarding WW2 and Hitler. So in here you will find pro-Jewish and pro-Israel material. I was definitely WRONG about the Boeremag and Janusz Walus. They were for real.
Original Post Date: 2004-05-26 Time: 13:08:04 Posted By: Jan
[This is really more ominous than it seems. Black African nations are actually going to create a system whereby undemocratic dictatorships keep each other in power. Watch this sort of system go into action in a place like Zimbabwe to uphold a dictator like Mugabe if he ever starts losing his grip on power. This is going to be very evil… Jan]
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (151) African nations, long reluctant to intervene in each other’s crises, yesterday launched a new continentwide security council with powers to send African peacekeeping troops to conflict zones.
The new African Union Peace and Security Council, formed on the model of the U.N. Security Council, follows a string of failed pan-African peace efforts since the 1970s. But Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, a member of the new council, promised this one would be different because “we have learned from our own experience that peace, security and stability are necessary for sustainable development.”
Security analysts, however, questioned whether the body will have sufficient political will or troops to make a difference in stubborn and often politically complicated conflicts from the Ivory Coast to Sudan.
“It comes down to two things: political will and capacity,” said Kathryn Sturman, a senior researcher at the Institute for Security Studies in Johannesburg, South Africa. To succeed, the continent’s leaders “must change the political culture that came from the (now-defunct) Organization of African Unity, which is noninterference.”
Organizers of the new body said yesterday that they are ready to swap their “noninterference” creed for one that Seid Djinnit, the African Union’s peace and security commissioner, called “nonindifference.” The council yesterday took up a discussion of conflicts in Somalia, Ivory Coast and Sudan at its first closed meeting.
“We shall not shrink from decisive action to overcome the challenges facing the continent,” Obasanjo promised.
As part of the new security-council effort, African nations will contribute troops to five regional peacekeeping bodies, expected to be in place by 2005 and fully prepared by 2010. Security-council members, drawn from the continent’s five regions, will vote on dispatching troops to conflict zones.
Council members emphasized that the African peacekeepers are not a substitute for larger U.N. forces but will complement them. The African peacekeeping force would include a rapid-reaction component that would enable the security council to move soldiers into conflict zones within 30 days, faster than United Nations forces usually can react.
African nations contribute peacekeeping troops to several regional conflicts. Nigerian peacekeepers have responded to conflicts in Liberia and other parts of West Africa, and the Nigerian-led West African peacekeeping force is expected to be the first one ready under the new security council. South Africa has troops in troubled Burundi, and it will lead the southern African peacekeeping team, which should be the second created. East, central and North Africa also will establish brigade-size regional forces.
African leaders said yesterday that they recognize that the continent’s conflicts have cut economic growth and contributed to widespread poverty. Moving toward solving them and preventing other conflicts from starting, they said, is part of an overall effort to improve life for Africans that also includes strengthening democracy, human-rights protections and good governance.
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