War and terrorism.. Agents that strengthen poverty in Africa

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Yesterday I started a topic on how the 54 countries in Africa have failed to overcome poverty, in the concluding part of the post I highlighted the factors behind the reason Africa hasn’t defeated poverty yet.
I emphasized on human been the number one factor empowering POVERTY in Africa as a continent. This post is a continuity of yesterdays post but I gave it a new topic.
War and Terrorism are agents human have used to strengthen Poverty in Africa. What is War? What is Terrorism? War is a state of armed conflict between different countries or different groups within a country while terrorism is the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims.
War and terrorism have same results in the Africa economy and have been the greatest strength behind the growth of Poverty in Africa. I have a little illustration to represent the issue of war and terrorism in Africa.
War and terrorism are like seeds, planted by us humans. The seed starts growing, it is been watered by man: at some point matures are added to boost the growth and fruit of the war and terrorism. The growing starts from the small phase to the big phase. At the big phase the seed as grown into a tree and ready to produce fruit. What kind of tree do you expect such tree to produce? Money? Boost in country growth? It can’t produce any good fruit. The fruit the tree of war and terrorism produces are

Death
Starvation
Destruction of Property
Diseases and lot more.

When trees in Africa are meant to produce peace, happiness, growth, food, money instead they do the opposite, how do you expect Africa to be free from Poverty?.
Let me share my insight how War and Terrorism have Poverty grow in Africa today.
Firstly, war scares investors off. A war zone is a keep off zone for investors. When a country is at war either with another country or between groups in the country, investors will not invest in such countries. Or can you start planning to invest in a country that is going through war. It is a NO. No one will decide to invest in a place where his/her capital will vanish.

Do you know the importance of investors, one of the most important of it all is investors creating jobs for the citizens of the country? A country with sufficient jobs is close to defeating poverty. But in a country at war or a country that is battling terrorism , no one is ready to invest with the presence of war and terrorism therefore there are no jobs and poverty keeps growing.

Secondly during war and terrorism act a lot of things are destroyed such as houses, farms, public infrastructures, schools, tourist centers and important parts of the country are destroyed. All these are setback for the country and the citizens, in this process Poverty gain more strength from the destruction because the citizens have to start from the scratch or let me say ruins of the war and terrorism.
The death of important personal in the country can be very disastrous, engineers, inventors, scientists and a lot of professionals with great knowledge and ideas can lost their lives in war or terrorism attacks and it can debar the growth and development of a country boosting the power of Poverty.

War and terrorism is not an act to emulate because they have in no way helped us as a continent, it has stolen joy from us, taken our loved ones away from us, destroyed our hopes of a great future and expose our life to great danger.
To be able to defeat Poverty, war and terrorism as to be buried. We Africans have to sit, think and learn to live a one. Remember it is easier to break a stick but difficult to break a hundreds of stick at once.

The post hasn't ended yet please, I am posting it gradually due to the nature of my job. I hope you all understand and will bear with me. To continue getting updates of my post follow @captain-tom for the concluding part tomorrow.

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