Post-colonial independent Africa continues to chase the elusive socio-economic stability necessary for sustainable development in the continent. Starting from the fashionable coup-de-tats in the early years of independence in the 1960s and 1970s to the present date era of armed groups taking the forms of ideological conflicts fueled by Islamic militants. The Horn of Africa and indeed the entire Eastern Africa block has been struggling with violent extremist groups such as the Al-Shabaab, Islamic States, and the Al-Sunnah Wa Jamaa (ASWJ) terror groups and militants. The other regions of Africa have similar problems with Boko Haram in West Africa and the militants in the Maghreb region. Piracy problems can also be spotted in the continent particularly, in the Gulf of Guinea as well as the Indian Ocean waters of East Africa.
The unresolved questions begging for answers in this complex insecurity environment border on the need to know why so many conflicts in one continent and why is there no sustainable mechanism to manage or resolve such conflicts as they occur. It is candid talk the continent needs to hold urgently to save this motherland from itself.
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