East Africa can do without spectre of war

Bertrand Russell wrote thus: “War does not determine who is right — only who is left.” This was just as true decades ago as it is valid today. And in the context of East Africa, it is time politicians and warlords stuffed this timeless advice in their respective pipes and smoked it in.

We find it necessary to revisit the issue of regional peace and co-existence since the Horn of Africa and entire states around the Lake Victoria Basin have, arguably, the greatest potential in human resource terms, trade, natural and mineral resource wealth and mustard seed of democratic governance.