Wednesday, March 11, 2020

Australia sold weapons to Mali as UN warned violence creating 'humanitarian disaster'

The Australian government approved a large volume of weapons sales to war-torn Mali in the same year the United Nations warned escalating violence was creating an “unprecedented humanitarian disaster” in the West African nation.

Internal records released to the Guardian through freedom of information law reveal Australian weapons companies were given 31 permits last year to export weapons and military technology to a cluster of African nations suffering from instability and violence, including Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Mali, the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/mar/11/australia-sold-weapons-to-mali-as-un-warned-violence-creating-humanitarian-disaster

Malian soldiers enter the historic city of Timbuktu in 2013. New internal documents show a significant volume of Australian arms exports went to Mali last year. The country has been gripped by near-perpetual internal conflict for eight years.

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