As well as there not appearing to be much public awareness of the issue, conflict minerals are not easy to avoid in every day life. Similar to diamonds, they are at once are often a contributing reason to and help sustain armed conflict and civil war.
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The Forgotten Conflict in the Central African Republic
The ongoing fighting has largely escaped attention from western media up until recently, but the scale of devastation is staggering and cannot continue to be ignored.
Read More »Al Shabaab: the Rise and Fall from Black Hawk Down to Westgate and Beyond
The attack on Nairobi demonstrated that al Shabaab has peaked and is attempting to reverse its seemingly unstoppable decline.
Read More »African Union Requests Security Council to Defer Cases of Kenyatta and Ruto
On Saturday 12th October, the African Union held an extraordinary session in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to consider Africa’s relationship with the International Criminal Court. The outcome of that debate was a request from the African Union to the Security Council to defer the cases of Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta and Vice President William Ruto
Read More »South Africa’s White Farmers Under Siege
Since the fall of apartheid, the tide has turned against white people from European backgrounds and it is reported that thousands have been killed in a move to drive them out of South Africa.
Read More »Heads of the Hydra – al Qaeda’s New Direction
Whilst al-Qaeda has never been a particularly centralised organisation, in recent years it appears to have shifted from a model of a centralised franchise, which supports other groups to carry out attacks in their name, to a fractured structure of regional groups, each with its own internal politics and personal missions.
Read More »Kenya Votes to Withdraw from ICC: A Victory for Impunity?
On the 6th of September, the Kenyan Parliament passed a motion to withdraw from the ICC. Kenya is the first country ever to make moves to withdraw from the court and this could have wide reaching implications, not least for Kenya.
Read More »Rwanda: A Scar on The Conscious of the International Community
The idea that the international community was impotent in the face of evil must be wholeheartedly rejected, as it relativises the moral responsibility of those who decided to become a silent accomplice rather than engage in a robust and rigid response to crimes against humanity.
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