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Despite the US launching the Trans-Saharan Counterterrorism Partnership (TSCPT) in 2005 to fight terrorism in the Sahel, terrorism in this region rose from contributing 1% (2007) to 50% (2023) of global terrorist-related fatalities, attesting to the total failure of the Washington-led top-down approach.

The thought that global bodies can lead nations to attain equitable development for all is a mind trap designed to make the global majority cede more control to colonial empires behind the UN.

Kenya’s antigovernment protests continues into the second month and are similar to Ghana’s in 2022, as both started from over taxation and worsening living standard, problems absent in South East Asia (e.g. Vietnam), which was also colonized. Kenya, Ghana, and Zambia have attempted development for 6 decades but lag behind Vietnam, which started developing under 4 decades ago. Clearly, Kenya and African countries need to change their development model from the World Bank/IMF’s neoliberal Ponzi for enriching western corporations.