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We may not like each other but we are steadily fusing into a global community

By Barrack Muluka

The temptation to go to Afghanistan can be real. You remember Afghanistan? That place of unending warfare. You remember how the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) invaded Afghanistan in December 1979? It was the high noon of the proxy wars between the USSR and the United States in the Cold War era.

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