The Five Causes Of War And Conflict In Africa

Although African countries are facing many severe problems including weak national identities and limited governmental capabilities, war might not be the only way to strengthen the state and develop national identities. When we consider the intense globalization undertaken by the world, collaboration by African unification provides another choice

While analyzing the North Africa conflict, a combination of service capabilities would be required to achieve the desired end state of deterring and if necessary, the defeat of Algerian guerilla aggression to prevent regional and global destabilization. Taking into account the current military landscape that exists today, a joint task force (JTF) would be the ideal military response of the United States and collation partner’s while utilizing the regional military assets. Intelligence suggests guerilla forces are capable of a full scale offensive into Morocco in less than 36 hour notice, bringing the factors of time, force and space into consideration.

A. Adu Boahen's African Perspectives on Colonialism neatly classifies African responses to European colonialism during both phases of invasion and occupation during the 19th century with precise labels according to their nature or time period. However, the reactions can also be loosely grouped into two diametric characterizations: peaceful and violent. Although creating this dichotomy seems a gross generalization and oversimplification of the colonial African experience, it more importantly allows for a different perspective- one that exposes the overwhelming success of the typically peaceful or pacifist reaction in contrast to the little gain and large losses of the violent response.

In the late nineteenth century the European powers of the world began imperializing Africa. This annexation, occupation, and division of African territory has since led to much strife within the continent and has caused many struggles politically. This period known as the “Scramble for Africa” has led to the many problems that Africa faces today and has been the root of several wars in Africa to assume control. After World War II many European imperialists began to give African nations autonomy. This seemed like a step forward for African nations, but without any plan to transition into self governance many African nations have faced bloody civil wars and corruption. Along with political struggles, numerous African nations face rising debt and other economic problems. Many of these political and economic issues stem from the “Scramble for Africa”. Once the European countries left Africa had very little to support itself. To explain the issues left by imperialism the three African nations of Rwanda, South Africa, and Sierra Leone will be put under the scope.

Little things in life can impact the world in many ways whether it's good or bad. In this case right now the Democratic Republic of the Congo is facing a big conflict with these minerals. The type of minerals people are fighting for are mined from the floor tantalum, tungsten, tin, and gold are the one that they're looking for. This is a big deal because the mineral trade has been linked to other crimes that rebel groups who commit mass atrocities, including rape and murder. It may not seem like a big deal but numbers don't lie , but you'll be surprised what they use these minerals for. They use these minerals to make phones,laptops(which I'm using right now so ironic right), light bulbs , a pair of earrings you name it. We are preventing

Sub-Saharan Africa’s colonial past has led to ethnic conflict, social problems, and economic problems during the present day. Let me start out saying that you can’t start a revolution without some kickback of the people’s opinions. The transition wasn't smoothly for the two countries I researched, The Democratic Republic of the Congo and South Sudan. These two country's colonial leaders did not do a good job of setting up these countries. If they hadn’t set up the enslavement of the people living there, the nations might’ve been a little better off. Another event that led to the ethnic conflicts going on today was the leaders gave the people independence but it wasn't given fully, North Sudanese were

This war was very tragic on so many levels is unbelievable. The war lasted for years as more than 5 million soldiers died. This place is very poor and one of the most hopeless country out there. It's crazy how it used to be one of the most wealthiest country out there in Saharan Africa. They had another election as Mr. Kabila was back to power like he was before and nothing changed. All the government has done was shrug as he found out about rape story. He would help he claims but there's too much time on his hands he says.

In conclusion, Sudan should use is power of Africa's largest country to create peaceful movements and to provide multiculturalism. The principal cause of those conflicts are about money and power. If they tough more about the way of living, they would have a better lifestyle. Also, they don't have any social system to help them.

Following the European countries notion of the scramble for Africa; the events that occurred in DRC during the 1990’s include the civil wars characterised by genocide and the conflicts between the Rwandans, Burundians, Ugandans and the Congolese which were rather awful and created a distorted images of the state and its citizens Dunn (2001). The political conflicts began as early as the 1960’s which witnessed the external regional division emerged particularly between Rwanda and Uganda (Dunn, 2001). The regimes formed by these regions were intended to overthrow the dictatorship by Mobuto Sese Seko on Congo who renamed it to Zaire. Kabila the late president of Congo who ruled for about three years before he was brutally assassinated in 2001 was part of this agenda.

Centuries of colonial rule left its mark on nearly every region of the African continent; minus that of Ethiopia, which remained independent, and free from foreign subjugation. Comparatively, the face of conflict throughout the rest of Sub-Saharan Africa, however, has evolved drastically over the last half-century.

The Biafra war began in Nigeria on the 6th of July 1967 after a period of tension filled peace. This tensions arose as a result of tribalism brought about by a series of coup de tat. Appointment into government roles became based on ethnic groups and it was crystal clear that the government was owned by the northerners. While the north owned military power, it lacked mineral resources and frequently extorted these resources from the east forcefully, usually not giving anything back. Easterners led by Lieutenant Colonel Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu fondly called Ojukwu began to rally for the secession of eastern Nigeria. The north did not stand for this and ceased business transactions in the east thereby blocking the source of food to the east.

Furthermore, root causes of conflict on the continent are often associated with internal issues or an ‘African problem’. Alison Ayers discusses the false perception of civil war and ‘failed states’ that have been created and implemented by the West (Ayers 2012). She disputes that civil war is internally instigated and only portrayed this way due to western representations of Africa through media. Ayers states that these efforts are made by hegemonic powers and are ‘ideologically and politically convenient’ (Ayers 2012, 261). Her implications here suggest that these ideological subjugations render African regions vulnerable for the use of exploitation and continuous dependency on external powers. This becomes the norm of African perception

In this essay I will be giving the definition of war and conflict and I will be describing the causes of war and giving examples of wars that have happened because of the conflicts that I will be mentioning in my essay. The causes of war I will be looking at will be; Politics, Nationalism, Ideology, Land, resources, historical rivalry, ethnic conflict and religion. These are the main causes of war.

The South African war was fought between the Boers and the British, from October 12 1899 to May 31 1902. At the time South Africa was a British colony and the Boer’s hostility towards them grew as the British started to push the Boers towards a less fertile area of land. At first it was minor fighting and conflict but soon thereafter it evolved into a full-scale war. The Boers were tremendously outnumbered and the British had a clear advantage with numbers and power, however, the British were seen to be overconfident and underestimating the Boers. The Boer’s failure to surrender to the British lead to the British introducing the death camps, playing on the morale of the Boers, and in turn the hardships of their people lead to the Boer’s surrender. After the horrific war it gave opportunity to the Boers to unite, which they did and the birth of Afrikaans nationalism.

The Arab world today is shrouded in controversy. Political instability and armed conflicts are portrayed as the norm throughout the Middle East. According to the pseudo regional specialists, the causes behind all the conflicts faced are obvious, religion and radicalism. Yet this fails to answer the question, “why”, which opens the door to better understand the foundation of the present day Arab states. This questions the origins to why the Arabs chose to leave the Ottoman Empire and take support from the British Empire, which at the time seemed contradictory. Unless British involvement with the Arabs had enticed the revolution, then to what extent did European Jihadist propaganda sway the Arabs to revolt against the Ottoman Empire in 1916? This paper will discuss that the Arab revolt against the Ottomans was in an effort take control of the Arab territories for themselves without the need for external influence to push them into making the decision. As such, the alternative explanation would be that Sharif Hussein was influenced by the British into believing that the revolt was his opportunity to liberate the Arabs from the Ottomans. Illustrating this point will be by examining circumstances that had led to the Arab’s decision, understanding how European intervention and motives shaped the revolt, and assessing the incentives the Arabs had for revolting.