This one is a photo I took in Timbuktu on the night of 27th March 1996 when the first-ever Flame of Peace was lit in order to burn 3000 rebel weapons.
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Here I will consider the SALW situation with regard to ECOWAS and West Africa
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While weapons of mass destruction (WMD) exercise the minds of political scientists, the reality is that small arms and light weapons (SALW) kill tens of thousands of people each year. SALW are the WMD.
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There is a general rule that, “Every illegal weapons began life as a legal weapon.” The main source of illegal weapons is government stockpiles: ‘leakage’ is the accepted euphemism, and it covers disappearances by theft (large-scale or individual pilfering), illegal sale across frontiers, diversion of legal imports to covert destinations, and even renting out government rifles for hunting or criminal use.
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THE AFRICAN ORIGINS OF HUMANITY
WHERE DID GOD CREATE MAN, IF NOT IN AFRICA?
God created Man in East Africa, in the Great Rift Valley. From there men moved down the Nile. Around two million years ago, some people migrated out of Africa into what is now Arabia, while others wandered with their livestock across the western grasslands where they found the Niger River. We need to remember that the Sahara has only been desert for around three thousand years.
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This book wrestles with fundamental questions of practical disarmament and peace building in Sierra Leone. Although they were written prior to the May-June 2000 upsurge of violence in Freetown that led to the arrest of Foday Sankoh, these incidents underline the relevance of the authors' analyses.
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