Senegal President and AU Chairperson Macky Sall gives a keynote address during the opening ceremony of the Dakar International Forum on Peace and Security in Africa in Dakar, Senegal. [Betty Njeru, Standard]
Decades after independence from colonial powers, one would have hoped Africa's post-independence regimes would by now have outgrown the curse of mercenaries, sponsored coups, and foreign-powered civil strife.
But as the recently staged Dakar International Forum on Peace and Security established, African nations are still wallowing in the miasma of externally powered internal aggressions, with peace nowhere in sight.
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