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Pop star and activist Bono has called for the creation of a United States of Africa, saying that a pan-continental identity would serve as a catalyst for resolving its conflicts.
The U2 frontman, who was in Japan to take part in a major development conference last week, said that a United States of Africa "would be the dream" in the long term. "I think a kind of broader African identity is going to be very important to deal with tribal tensions,"
The Irish rock star said that developing a broader identity may seem largely "poetic," but has been proven successful. "Irish people used to always have a little giggle when they would see Americans saluting their flags in schools, and then the whole standing there, singing the flag thing," Bono said.
"But as you get to know a little bit more about things, you start to think, ah, there's so many different tribal groups in the United States, that to create a national identity of that size, they had to really work at this kind of patriotism," he said.
The African Union was created in 2002 with inspiration from the European Union, but critics say the body has lacked the funds and political will to take effective action on the continent's flashpoints. It intervened in 2004 in the strife-torn western Sudanese region of Darfur, but has relinquished leadership to the United Nations to form a joint peacekeeping force. Pop star and activist Bono has called for the creation of a United States of Africa,... more
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Millions throughout Africa are facing war, mass rape, famine and disease. Yet there is no armed force able to deploy immediately to save them. If the U.N. can't protect them, maybe a private army can.
As the experience of Blackwater and other private security forces in Iraq demonstrates, relying on contract armed forces presents a number of difficult challenges, including oversight and accountability. But current peacekeeping efforts are not immune from such problems.
Whatever the problems posed by private, U.N.-backed armed forces, none would be worse than standing by while hundreds of thousands of Africans die.
Millions throughout Africa are facing war, mass rape, famine and disease. Yet there is... more
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