A report has declared that about 70 percent of African nations are more peaceful than United States of America.
The Foundation for Peace Professionals also known as PeacePro through its Executive Director, Abdulrazaq Hamzat, made this known at a press conference in Ilorin yesterday at the maiden edition of Africa Peace Insight (API) report in Nigeria.
In his words:
“The report is also based on the online public presentation which had 129 participants”.
Hamzat stated: “The report named Mauritius, Sierra Leone, Botswana, Equatorial Guinea and Tunisia as most peaceful countries across the 5 subregions of Africa and it equally listed South Africa, Sudan, South Sudan, Mali and Democratic Republic of Congo as least peaceful countries across the sub region.”
According to him, “the Africa Peace Insight is an extracted report from the Global Peace Index (GPI), produced by Australia based Institute of Economics and Peace (IEP) to contextualize, simplify and further breakdown the GPI from a continental perspective”.
He explained that the report previewed ongoing conflict in Africa including the situation in ECOWAS led West Africa and the ongoing crisis in Sudan, review findings of Global Peace Index, presented Africa as a single entity by extracting North Africa rating from Middle East as done by the GPI, outline the most and least peaceful countries across the sub region and provide recommendation on pressing peace-building concern in the continent”.
The report says despite the huge challenge in Africa, more than 70 per cent of the continent is more peaceful than the United States.
The report added that no African country is amongst top 3 least peaceful countries in the world for 4 consecutive years.
The report however averred that Africa is the epicenter of global crisis, as the Ethiopian civil war recorded more death than any other conflict in the world, yet it wondered why the continent didn’t get commensurate relief support compared to Ukraine, which had less casualties.
Hamzat while outlining the five major observation of the Africa Peace Insight, said foreign military presence is directly proportional to proliferation of arms and growing insecurity in the continent.
“Despite the huge mineral exploration taking place in the continent, it doesn’t receive commensurate economic returns to clean up its environment, create economic prosperity and provide employment for its teeming youth population”, the report stated.
“Africa Peace Insight concluded with 2 major recommendations, which is to de-militarize Africa through ending all foreign military presence within a set time frame and developing a joint continental gateway to global mineral market”.
