Peace Without Poison

society, and will defame Islamist political factions and thus prevent them from assuming political powerin free elections, as has happened in Egypt with the Muslim Brotherhood.These two military fronts – the one in sub-Saharan Africa, where Ebola is the primary weapon, and theone in North Africa, where ISIS is the primary weapon – that are meant to accomplish the geopoliticalobjectives I have described above, also fulfill another important strategic goal, namely stopping theexodus from Africa to Europe. The two military fronts have created two impenetrable cordons, theEbola cordon and the ISIS cordon, that now seal the continent and prevent Africans from leaving it toseek refuge in Europe. Europe can no longer accommodate the boatloads of desperate Africans that reachthe shores of Italy, Spain and Greece and a way had to be found to stop the flow of immigration.Because Africa has proven incapable of solving its own problems and has refused to participate in thedepopulation and globalization axis around which the international system has revolved since 1945, theUN and its western sponsors have taken matters into their own hands before Africa’s problems flood overthe continent’s borders and destabilize the hard-won peace and stability of Europe.Given Africa’s high fertility rates and frightening population growth projections, which show that if thecontinent continues on its current path its population will triple in the next 40 years and there will be 2.7billion Africans by 2050 compared to the one billion Africans today, one can understand why theinternational community is resorting to desperate solutions.While Africans in 1970 made up only a tenth of the world’s population, they make up a sixth ofthe world’s population today and at current growth rates they will make up a quarter of theglobal population by 2050. The world can hardly cope with Africa’s problems today, how will itcope with Africa’s problems over the next four decades if Africa does not change its ways and itsproblems keep spilling over the continent’s borders?1003 | P a g e