[kictanet] Why It’s Wrong For Kenya To Try Pac ifying Angry Bashir

[bitange at jambo.co.ke]

Grace,
Our media too needs to set the agenda right.  Much of what David wrote was heavily influenced from what he read in foreign media.  Earlier I made a comparison between what happened in Daffur and in Congo.  In 2003 some 5 million people died in the Congo.  You may recall the Banyamulenge atrocities inside Congo but in spite the fact that there were indictable people by ICC, the issue was brushed under the carpet.

Congo is a mineral rich country with a government that hadly know what is going on in their country.  Some people want it that way.  Below see a quote from the Financial Times and see why I made that conclusion.

"Given the muted response to the evolving fiasco in Congo, there is
much less international appetite for outrage, or even for an accurate
count. Western countries are less enchanted with Mr Kabila than they
were in 2006, when he won a UN-supervised election, promising to bring
peace and economic recovery. He has done neither.

But unlike Mr Ouattara in Ivory Coast, Mr Tshisekedi does not enjoy
significant backing from anyone outside the Congo.

He is his own man. That is one reason a large number of Congolese
persist in believing that he might turn things round. At 78, he is
representative of a generation of opposition leaders who dedicated
decades to the fight against dictatorship. Most, including Mr Gbagbo
have proved disastrous in government."


You cannot be your own man in Africa if you need the support of Western countries.  This is a worrying statement and confirms that our media has largely failed in setting the African agenda and begin to influence the rest of the world.

Virtually all mineral rich African countries are at war from the west to central and eastern Africa.  Is is a coincident? 


Ndemo.

 

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