Vol 63 No 7 | AFRICAARMS Moscow loses arms advantage 31st March 2022 Russia stands to lose its position of supplying nearly half of Africa's arms following the sweeping sanctions imposed in the wake of its invasion of Ukraine. Some of...
Vol 55 No 21 | NORTH AFRICAARMS Comrades in arms deals 24th October 2014 Ever more visits by European and US military officials to North African capitals suggest old connections are back on course The global news agenda has moved on since the attack on the Tiguentourine gas plant near In Amenas in Algeria in January 2013 and the ousting of Egyptian...
Vol 50 No 23 | AFRICAARMS The smugglers make their fortunes 20th November 2009 The more embargoes and sanctions, the higher the rate of return for international arms dealers Arms traders are getting around Europe's sanctions on Guinea and playing games with the embargo on Côte d'Ivoire, and Belgium sells weapons to Libya, hub of the arms...
Vol 49 No 9 | ZIMBABWECHINAARMS Oceanic turnaround 25th April 2008 The thwarted voyage of the An Yue Jiang – a Chinese freighter with a cargo of ammunition, mortars, mines and artillery bound for President Robert Mugabe’s government –...
Vol 47 No 18 | SOMALIAARMS Mission Mogadishu 8th September 2006 An American private security company, Select Armor, has been planning military operations in support of President Abdullahi Yusuf's Transitional Federal Government in Somalia and raising questions about an...
Vol 42 No 7 | AFRICAARMS Dirty deals 6th April 2001 A Belgian arms trader, Jacques-Germain Monsieur, is the new star in the French judicial inquiry into France's former state oil company, Elf Aquitaine (now privatised and part of...