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Reject leaders who foster boundary conflict

We cannot wholly use ethnic borders to define economic contact. [Courtesy]

Our colonial history makes border conflicts a recurrent disease. But boundaries are a problem everywhere, and different nations solve them in their own ways. The senator who recently issued an ultimatum around Sondu Town is proof that miseducation among politicians risks carrying ethnic conflicts into the next century if the voter does not choose well.

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