Ethiopian Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed, has suggested that in dealing with existing conflicts and disputes on the continent, it is necessary to mobilise collective efforts to resolve them and that they “must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference”. But the key obstacle is related to gross weakness in the political governance system, combined with underdevelopment, driving the unemployed to rise against the economic disparity. Ethnic clashes have become rampant due to claims of ownership and access to untapped natural resources. The worst approach is allowing foreign military forces, who barter their military service in exchange for exploiting natural resources. Atrocities are committed due to lack of knowledge of local conditions.
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has consistently highlighted opinions and perspectives that are related to Francophone African countries. Developments in these conflict-infested countries have been negatively affected, with millions of people displaced and ultimately pushed into abject poverty. Until today, external involvement in Africa’s peace processes has been remarkably complicated by external forces, largely imposing their aspirations to exploit natural resources and influencing internal policies, which shape the future directions in those countries. In the long run, Africa’s elusive dream of unity makes the future uncertain.
