Arms

• Vol 49 No 9
• 25/04/2008

Oceanic turnaround

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 – marks a turning point for Zimbabwe’s regional relations. It also shows how trades union...

• Vol 47 No 18
• 08/09/2006

Mission Mogadishu

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 attack on Mogadishu, according to documents o...

• Vol 47 No 17
• 25/08/2006

The forces in Darfur's war

• Vol 42 No 7
• 06/04/2001

Dirty deals

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 TotalFinaElf). Significantly, his revelations concern very recent events comp...