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Matek
I have been afraid about it all along, was
just un comfortable with its creation to start with. Thanks any
ways.
Em
Toronto
The Mulindwas Communication Group
"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is
in
anarchy"
Groupe de communication Mulindwas
"avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans
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Sent: Sunday, July 31, 2005 12:59
PM
Subject: Re: [Ugnet] Sadc army to be
operational by August
EM:
This so called SADC is a US thing, If I might say so...indeed what does
SADC and The US have in common, they are both managed by the US Southern
Command station in Gaborone Botswana!!!!!

Sadc army to be
operational by August
Staff Writer
THE Southern Africa Development Community (Sadc) should have
a fully operational regional army at the beginning of August in line with
African Union efforts to ensure the security of the continent from civil and
foreign-induced destabilisation.
Sadcâs peacekeeping brigade
will constitute a part of the African Unionâs Standby Force (AUSF), which
will be tasked with quelling potential military and civilian conflicts on
the continent. Sadc member States will voluntarily provide the troops and
the brigade will be administered from Gaborone, Botswanaâs capital, which
has been the regional groupingâs traditional headq uarters. The rapid
response brigade will not, however, only focus on Southern Africa alone, but
will also be deployed to hotspots across the continent and beyond thereby
complementing the efforts of the African Union (AU) and the United
Nations.
This has been in response to recommendations made by the AU
to form regional military brigades in Central, Eastern, Northern, Southern
and Western Africa for the purposes of peacekeeping and
defence.
Through a number of training exercises carried out over the
past few years, Sadc troops have studied various methods of humanitarian
relief operations, hostage rescue, stress management and casualty evacuation
among other key aspects of peacekeeping and regional cooperation.
On
a continental as well as a regional level, there have been a number of
crises â both man made and natural â that have devastated Africa over
the past few years though the presence of rapid response teams could have
significantly minimised the overa ll impact.
At one point, Libya
proposed the creation of a United African Army that would be conducted by a
general board of command as the âhighest authority in the case of peace
and war and chaired by the President of the (African) Union.â This
proposal was motivated by the realisation that the security of any AU member
state was closely connected with the security of the rest of the Union.
Consequently, a threat of aggression against one member is to be viewed as a
threat to the entire AU.
This would require âThe use of the United
African Army for defence as an implementation of the common defence policy
of the AU contained in paragraph âDâ in Article 4 of the Constitutive
Act of the African Union.â The United African Army would have the right to
intervene in any member state âin order to restore political legitimacy in
case of a dangerous threat or in case of grave circumstances such as war
crimes, genocide and crimes against humanityâ.
A s part of the
establishment of a continental army, member states would be required to
build relevant infrastructure such as bases, airports and other
facilities.
Training programmes in peace keeping, such as the
internationally renowned courses conducted at the Zimbabwe Staff College,
would also be conducted to ensure efficiency and relevance to the African
context.
The now-defunct Organisation of African Union attempted
instituting a continental army to battle colonialism in Africa but many
problems were met and members settled for a liberation committee based in
Dar es Salaam.
Those same problems could yet come and haunt people
who envisage the creation of a United African Army.
Furthermore, for
a variety of reasons both historical and contemporary, the continent is
ravaged by regionalism and nuances of tribalism. As such, a quota method
would have to be fairly worked out to ensure representativeness at both
officer and ordinary staff level.
For it to respond appropriately to
crises on the continent, funding would have to be sufficient for the
acquisition of appropriate equipment and speedy deployment.
With the
United States of America increasingly acting unilaterally, coupled with the
continued militarisation of the NATO bloc, observers have time and again
stressed the need for Africa to establish a unit that is prepared to act as
a deterring factor. Furthermore, it should be able to engage in actual
battles when mere deterrence has failed. In addition to military operations,
the army could also perform some of the duties performed by regular domestic
armies such as civil projects. This could be particularly beneficial in
times of crisis such as floods and locust invasions.
The
Mulindwas Communication Group
"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in
anarchy"
Groupe de communication Mulindwas
"avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est
dans
l'anarchie"
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