In Addis Ababa this week, Ethiopia raised its voice at the African Union Peace and Security Council to remind the continent that the architecture of collective defense already exists — what remains missing is the will to inhabit it. State Minister Hadera Abera pointed to terrorist organizations that have outpaced governments by mastering the digital landscape, recruiting and radicalizing across borders with a speed that paper agreements alone cannot match. His appeal was less a demand for new instruments than a moral reckoning with the gap between what Africa has promised itself and what it ha