[kictanet] Why It's Wrong For Kenya To Try Pac ifying Angry Bashir-offtopic?

Tue Dec 6 18:23:49 EAT 2011

Andrea,

I had thought as much too a while back had been over-ruled. Maybe we are digressing too much.  Indeed I was now beginning to shop for another ICT list...

Wherease we may not divorce ICTs from regular life (politics, economics, religion, etc) I really wish Listers could at least pretend to show the connection with ICTs...whenever they get off topic.

walu.

--- On Tue, 12/6/11, Andrea Bohnstedt <andrea.bohnstedt at ratio-magazine.com> wrote:

From: Andrea Bohnstedt <andrea.bohnstedt at ratio-magazine.com>
Subject: Re: [kictanet] Why It's Wrong For Kenya To Try Pac ifying Angry Bashir
To: jwalu at yahoo.com
Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
Date: Tuesday, December 6, 2011, 1:49 PM

Go back to discussing ICT issues on the ICT list? :) 

On 6 December 2011 13:44, Harry Delano <harry at comtelsys.co.ke> wrote:

What is the way forward....?

Harry

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Bashir

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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