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130221
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2014.
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Uganda has a population problem. The United Nations forecasts that the number of people living there will surpass the combined populations of Germany, Italy, and Japan by the end of this century-growing to 205 million in an area about the size of Oregon. It is hard to imagine how this will help with Uganda's
current poverty problem. The nation ranks 161st in the world in the UN's Human Development Index. Having deployed troops in Somalia and South Sudan and suffered terrorist attacks in the capital city, Kampala, Uganda also has a security problem. This partly explains the harassment and repression of the press and civil society groups by a government that is increasingly intolerant of any dissent.
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097131
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130215
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2014.
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The Kenyan scholar Ali Mazrui presented the idea of a "Pax Africana" in a seminal 1967 study, arguing that Africans should muster the will to create and consolidate peace on their own continent. Mazrui wrote in the aftermath of the Congo crisis of 1960-64, when the United Nations was struggling to keep peace amid a traumatic civil war. The fact that the world body still struggles with peacekeeping in the same country, four decades later, is an eloquent metaphor for the arduous and continuing quest for a Pax Africana. Peacekeeping efforts in Africa are often portrayed in Manichean terms. They are either spectacular "successes," as with the short-term victory of a 3,000-strong Southern African Development
Community (SADC) force that routed the M23 rebels in eastern Congo as part of a UN mission in 2013; or else they are spectacular "failures," as with the current inability of 2,000 French troops and about 6,000 Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) peacekeepers-"rehatted" as UN troops-to stop sectarian massacres in the Central African Republic. UN missions in South Sudan (some 8,500 troops) and Sudan's Darfur region (more than 19,000 troops) are also counted as failures.
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