CIVIL WARS IN AFRICA LEAD TO U.N. PEACEKEEPING MISSIONS UN PEACE KEEPING.

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CIVIL WARS IN AFRICA LEAD TO U.N. PEACEKEEPING MISSIONS UN PEACE KEEPING

WHY SO MANY CIVIL WARS IN AFRICA? Root Causes Political Corruption & Failure Lack of Respect for rule of Law Governments or rebels commit human rights violations Exploitation of resources = economic failure Over Looked Causes European Colonialism Created modern day borders Help to create tension between different tribes & ethnicities to maintain power Exploitation of African resources

OVERLOOKED CAUSE OF MANY CONFLICTS IN AFRICA SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA- EUROPEAN COLONIALISM

EUROPEANS SCRAMBLED TO TAKE OVER ALL PARTS OF AFRICA.

DIAMONDS, OIL, MINERALS, RUBBER– RICH RESOURCES EUROPEANS WANTED NATURAL RESOURCES!

RWANDA, INDIA EUROPEAN DIVIDE AND RULE

GENOCIDE IN RWANDA DIVIDE & RULE BELGIANS IN RWANDA Rwanda

BELGIANS HAD PUT TUTSIS IN POWER, AGAINST THE HUTUS AFTER INDEPENDENCE, CIVIL WAR FOR DECADES BETWEEN HUTUS & TUTSIS

BRITISH DEVELOPED AND FAVORED THE ARAB NORTH; IGNORING THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE COUNTRY DIVIDE AND RULE IN THE SUDAN

BELGIAN- KING LEOPOLD CONGO-EXPLOITS RESOURCES

BANTU IN THE SOUTH & ACHOLI & LANGI IN NORTH UGANDA- BRITISH CREATED TENSION BETWEEN ETHNIC GROUPS IN NORTH & SOUTH

NO CONCERN FOR THE DIFFERENT ETHNIC OR CULTURAL GROUPS THAT WERE WITHIN THE BORDERS. EUROPEANS CREATE BORDERS FOR NEWLY INDEPENDENT COUNTRIES!

BRITISH CREATED TENSIONS BETWEEN DIFFERENT GROUPS NORTH- ACHOLI & LANGO, SOUTH- BANTU GROUPS

POLITICAL & ECONOMIC CORRUPTION; EXPLOITATION AND FAILURE ROOT CAUSES OF CIVIL WARS

UGANDA- IDI AMIN Authoritarian Leader of Uganda Amin's rule was characterized by human rights abuses, Political repression, ethnic persecution, killings nepotism & and gross economic mismanagement.

THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO (ZAIRE) Patrice Lumumba- 1 st Elected leader of Congo CIA & Soviet involvement in Africa after Independence!

MOBUTU RULED FOR 32 YEARS AFTER LUMUMBA, JOSEPH MOBUTU EXPLOITS THE CONGO RESOURCES

AFRICAN LEADERS EXPLOIT MINERALS HUGE DEPOSITS OF MINERALS, OIL, DIAMONDS IN CONGO

PRESIDENT REAGAN & MOBUTU COLD WAR- MOBUTU “ANTI-COMMUNIST”

GOVERN THEMSELVES & STOPPED EXPLOITATION HOPE FOR AFRICAN’S DURING INDEPENDENCE!

TODAY, AFRICA WORLD WAR

CONGO, AFRICA’S WORLD WAR

CONTROL OF CONGO’S MINERALS

EVEN THE U.S. OIL COMPANIES ARE INVOLVED!

WITHOUT THE UN MANY MORE DEATHS IN WORLD FROM WARS! UN PEACEKEEPING, COMPLEX & DIFFICULT

EXTRA CREDIT- OR REPLACE MISSING HOMEWORK LAST KING OF SCOTLAND- MOVIE