By Ipole AMAJAMA
There is an urgency for Africa to wake from its lethargy and stop its youth from being trapped in a war they did not sign up for. At present, hundreds of young Africans are being lured from the continent with the promise of lucrative jobs and better lives by Russian fronts, only to end up dying on the frontlines of the more than three years of the war Russia started against Ukraine.
As the continent dithers, the relatives of those entrapped in a war that isn’t theirs, thousands of miles away, relieve fear for their loved ones they might never see again or in body bags.
The numbers continue to stack up, and frighteningly so. From Nairobi to Kampala, Pretoria to Dodoma, Abuja to Yaoundé, Accra and across the African continent, stories are emerging of young Africans deceived into going to Moscow and used as human fodder in the execrable war against Kyiv.