Uganda President Museveni admits his soldiers are fighting in South Sudan on the side of President Kiir. The side Museveni is backing is of no consequence, he should not be there!
Uganda's military involvement in South Sudan is totally, totally unacceptable. Museveni is a ruthless tyrant who has ruled Uganda with an iron fist his intentions in South Sudan can never be on the side of peace, justice, freedom and good governance because he has failed to bring those things to his own people.
The tyrant of Uganda, not contend with the chaos and mayhem he has caused in his own country and DRC after decades of interfering in that country, he is now exporting chaos and mayhem to South Sudan. Museveni is salivating at South Sudan's oil wealth just as he did at DRC's vast diamonds and gold reserves.
The third reason Museveni is getting embroiled in South Sudan and other regional conflicts is to take attention away from his own brutal repression and failed economic policies at home.
Tyrants like Museveni and Mugabe are a serious threat to peace and stability in Africa. They have become the Israel of Africa; Israel aided Iran and Iraq with training, intelligence, etc. in equal measure during the 1980s war between these two nations to ensure the two were evenly matched and they destroyed each other! Africa has to deal with trouble makers like Museveni and Mugabe decisively or the continent will never know what peace and stability means!
5 comments:
@ Arthur
Credit where credit is due; the M&G has tried its best to air some of the big issues in Zimbabwe. What you have to ask yourself is why have all these big issues all died away? Well, because the people did not pick them up and demand of those involved a full account. There is only so much the M&G or any other independent media can do; it is for the people themselves to take the issue further.
A free media is important for democracy and good governance but it is not enough, you need an alert and engaged electorate.
Mugabe and Nikuv blatantly rigged the elections confident that the dozy Zimbabwe electorate will not notice much less do something about it. My "winging and blaming all and sundry" is proof that I noticed the vote rigging. You should, at least, give me credit for being awake!
Over a million Zimbabweans are facing starvation as the UN is forced to cut its food relief programme due to lack of funds.
We saw this coming when food production dropped like a stone soon after the looting of the farms by Mugabe and his cronies way back in 2003/4, And we have done nothing to solve the problem contend that donors will feed the nation. They did but they were not going to do it forever. Lets hope the nation will now seat up and DO something to end this Zanu PF dictatorship!
@ Mhukahuru
Yes Mugabe is "out of touch" but sadly we have done nothing about it for 34 years! He rigged the elections to stay in power and, believe it or not, some idiots are saying the nation should accept that as "a political reality!"
@ Mama
Well Libya, Egypt and Iraq all had dictators for decades and that is exactly why they are all in a mess. Dictators are good at keeping a lid on things but sooner or later even they cannot stop the people vending their anger and frustration bottled up for years. When that happens, no one is in control and hence the chaos.
The choice is a simple one - you can have evolutionary change, usually small and peaceful control changes, or revolutionary change, usually big and violent. It is in the nation of things to change, tyrants delude themselves into thinking they will stop change not knowing that by so doing they have in fact opted for the revolutionary change!
I agree, Mugabe rigged the elections and it was because Tsvangirai failed to implement the democratic reforms agreed in the GPA. Are you saying failing to implement the reforms was in itself "a sterling job"?
Or do you acknowledge that failing to implement the reforms was a serious blunder by Tsvangirai and MDC? In other words he still did a "sterling job" regardless.
If Tsvangirai had implemented the reforms he would have stopped Mugabe rigging the elections and thus saving the nation from this nightmare. Surely that was the single most important task that MDC had to do.
Whatever else MDC did has become totally irrelevant. "MDC restored some economic stability," Tsvangirai used to say. What good was that now when the economic instability is back with vengeance!
Tsvangirai dwelt on the here and now trivia whilst he completed ignored the real big issues - a testimony of the man's blundering incompetence. As for those who still think he "did a sterling job" even with the benefit of hindsight this is proof of just how naïve and gullible they are. As for Zimbabwe, there is no doubt that there are many very naïve and gullible Zimbabweans which explains why the nation is in this mess!
I, personally, do not consider Tsvangirai to be "an important player" in Zimbabwe but know that there are many naïve and gullible people like you who do! And as long as this remains the case, Zimbabwe will have no hope of ever getting out of this mess!
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