Africa's forever Wars
Gettleman, Jeffrey
Foreign Policy, March/April 2010, #178, pp73-36
"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· - in fact, they prefer the deep bush, where it is far easier to commit crimes. Today's rebels seem especially uninterested in winning converts, content instead to steal other people's children, stick Kalashnikovs or axes in their hands, and make them do the killing. Look closely at some of the continent's most intractable conflicts, from the rebelladen creeks of the Niger Delta to the inferno in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and this is what you will find."
Jeffrey Gettleman is East Africa bureau chief for the New York Times.
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