On Congo and Africa

Several African leaders with the support of the United Nations have as of Sunday 24th February 2013 announced a proposed "framework" to help bring to an end, the decades- old conflict and instability in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The proposal calls for closer cooperation by Congo's neighbours, as well as for Congo to institute political changes that would make a peaceful resolution of Its conflict possible. It is understandable the scepticism that has greeted this from some quarters given that it can at best, be looked at as 'An agreement in principle'. One is mindful that several efforts to bring about an end to the conflict in Congo have achieved scant if any results. One is however convinced that the beginning of the end of suffering in the DRC has to be initiated by those with the most to lose from continued conflict and instability...Africa and Africans. It is only an interested and engaged Africa that can truly emancipate itself from the cycle of violence and instability that has gripped it for so long.