War in Africa

WAR IN AFRICA

BY Andy Edwin Jason Benjamin

Why has Africa had so much civil war?

In all other regions of the world the incidence of civil war has been on a broadly declining trend over the past thirty years: but in Africa the long term trend has been upwards.


There is a very simple reason why some of Africa's bloodiest, most brutal wars never seem to end: They are not really wars. Not in the traditional sense, at least. The combatants don't have much of an ideology; they don't have clear goals. They couldn't care less about taking over capitals or major cities.


This is list of African war.

l  Countries    War & Years  

Congo-Brazzaville：
1993-1995, 1997 Ethnic violence and aftermath

Chad：    
1980-1987, 1990-1995 Civil war and factional struggles

Burundi：
1972 Massacre
1988 Ethnic conflict continuing despite peace process

Ivory Coast：2002 Civil war
Libya：   
1996 Civil war

Sudan：
1963-1972 and 1984 - Civil war

South Africa：
1976     Civilian uprising
1983-1994 Political violence

Somalia：   
1988  Civil war and factional struggles
Senegal：
1960-2001 Separatist conflict
Sierra Leone:
1991-1996 and 1997- 2001 Civil war and aftermath


Quiet places such as Tanzania are the lonely exceptions; even user-friendly, tourist-filled Kenya blew up in 2008. Add together the casualties in just the dozen countries that I cover, and you have a death toll of tens of thousands of civilians each year. More than 5 million have died in Congo alone since 1998, the International Rescue Committee has estimated.



Some wars go on killing long after they end. In Congo, a nation of 63 million people in the heart of Africa, a peace deal signed more than three years ago was supposed to halt a war that drew in belligerents from at least eight other countries, producing a record of human devastation unmatched in recent history.  

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) estimates that 3.9 million people have died from war-related causes since the conflict in Congo began in 1998, making it the world's most lethal conflict since World War II

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1198921,00.html#ixzz187WgZrVk


no human can measure the deadly work of cheap mass produced weapons; nor can we tally the dead, the wounded, the bereaved, and the shattered lives. Yet, we do know that the world is awash with arms and that their numbers keep rising. Increasingly, voices cry for something to be done. But what can be done?

My African brothers it is time to “WAKE UP” we don’t need cheap weapons that have been dumped here by the developed countries, we don’t need to fight and kill each other. Destroy your cheap weapons; resolve your differences through dialogue and debate.


STOP THE SENSELESS KILLING OF OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS. Let us channel our energy toward a constructive cause and let us rebuild our land to its former glory.