The French just announced that they will be shuttling off more troops into Osama bin Laden’s Afghanistan. Bush says more US soldiers are on their way there too. So are soldiers from other NATO / western states. Maybe its good news which might help end all this bloodshed in Afghanistan once and for all.
But in the plains and deserts of Africa, no one seems to care. Those big mouth politicians went to the world and said that we should be left alone. Africans are capable of solving African problems- African solutions for Africa problems. Nice slogan but they forget that Africa at this moment cannot adequately manage its myriad of problems at national levels, lest end conflicts in neighbouring countries. And nice slogans don’t end conflicts.
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