Africa Must End Reliance On External Donors for Peace Efforts - Rwivanga
Brigadier General Ronald Rwivanga of the Eastern Africa Standby Force (EASF) has urged African nations to reduce reliance on external donors for peace and security operations. He emphasized the need for internal financing mechanisms to ensure regional stability.
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The call for 'African solutions to African problems' reflects a growing movement toward continental sovereignty and self-reliance in security policy.
Africa should end its reliance on external donors to finance and support its peace and security efforts, Brig Gen Ronald Rwivanga, Director of the Eastern Africa Standby Force (EASF) , has said.
He was speaking on August 10 on the sidelines of the 36th Ordinary Policy Organs Meeting of the EASF in Ugandan.
The meeting brings together representatives from the force's nine member states--Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya, Burundi, Somalia, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Sudan and Comoros.
The Nairobi-based EASF is one of the five regional standby forces established under the African Union's Peace and Security Architecture to enable the continent to respond rapidly to crises, including peace support operations.
Rwivanga said African countries have the capacity to respond to conflicts and humanitarian crises on the continent, but must build stronger internal mechanisms to finance and deploy such responses without depending heavily on external partners.
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