UGANDAN PRESIDENT SAYS AFRICA SHOULD HAVE STOPPED THE NATO MILITARY INTERVENTION WHICH HAPPENED IN LIBYA

Ugandan president Yoweri Kaguta Museveni says Africa should have taken steps to stop a North Atlantic Treaty Organization, NATO, military intervention in Libya in 2011.

According to the long-serving president, Africa’s diplomatic attempts in the intervention were not enough and that a military intervention should have been pursued to save the north African country currently embroiled in armed conflict.

The African president in a recent interview claims that African countries should not have allowed Western countries to attack Libya. He was quoted saying, “We should have intervened. We tried diplomatically but we could have intervened even militarily”.

Africa could have intervened and taught those people a lesson. Libya was an African country being attacked by foreign powers, we should have intervened.

It is the second time in recent years that he is commenting on the Libya situation that brought an end to the reign of Muammar Gaddafi who was eventually captured and killed by rebels in his hometown of Sirte in the same year.

In 2016, Museveni wrote a piece that criticised the United States and European Union for their intervention in Libya and the wider Middle East region. He averred that the U.S. and E.U had no business dislodging Gaddafi and Saddam Hussein of Iraq.