African Union and Central African Nation

Africa: Another Rwanda looms in Africa, this time in the tiny Central African nation of Burundi, and the world is standing by determined to do nothing to prevent it, according to Rabble. This calamitous possibility, which I wrote about in January, looms closer, according to many observers, yet intervention by African leaders or the United Nations Security Council is no closer. Chip in to keep stories like these coming. In 2002, when the African Union was created as a forum for continental decision-making, its aspiration was a "new Africa" characterized by "African solutions for African problems." The AU Charter boldly gave the organization the right to intervene in a fellow nation state "in respect of grave circumstances, namely: war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity." In the previous tragic decades, tyrants and madmen had inflicted all of these atrocities on their fellow Africans with impunity while the rest of Africa leadership remained passive bystanders. Currently, many anticipate an imminent bloodbath in Burundi, Rwanda southern neighbour, but there will be no AU intervention. AU military missions have intervened in various conflicts, in Darfur, South Sudan, Somalia and Mali, among others. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.