United Nations:Trafficking In The Sahel - Muzzling The Illicit Arms Trade

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2023-06-11

Trafficking In The Sahel: Muzzling The Illicit Arms Trade Sunday, 11 June 2023, 7:46 am Press Release: United Nations Shoppers in Mali’s Gao, Timbuktu, and Ménaka regions can snap up AK-pattern ...

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Insurgency and\nbanditry plague the region, rooted in, among other things,\nendemic intercommunal tensions, clashes between farmers and\nherders, a spread of violent religious extremism, and\ncompetition over such scarce resources as water and arable\nland amid extreme\nclimate shocks.“Non-State groups are fighting\namong themselves for supremacy, pushing States to the\nmargin, and causing untold misery to millions of people who\nhad to flee their communities to seek safety,” Giovanie\nBiha, Officer-in-Charge of the United Nations Office for\nWest Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS), told\nthe UN Security\nCouncil, presenting the Secretary-General’s report on the\nregion. ‘We bought more\nrifles’\n\n\n\n\nBehind the chaos and misery simmers a\nthriving illicit arms trade.Many arms trafficking\nhubs in the Sahel rim borders or transportation routes where\nmultiple criminal activities take place, according to the UN\nOffice on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).\nIllegal markets – often hidden in plain sight in towns and\nvillages along strategic corridors – lay unhampered by the\npresence of authorities.All the groups involved in\nclashes are now dealing with firearms and ammunition,\naccording to a recent UNODC report\non firearms trafficking. As the numbers of group members\nmultiply, so too do business opportunities for\ntraffickers.The report tracks cases with a view to\nbetter understand the phenomenon and its drivers. When\nNigerian authorities asked a suspect how his group had spent\nthe $100,000 ransom paid to free the schoolgirls they had\nkidnapped, he said “we bought more rifles”, according to\nthe report. Cascade of\nconsequencesA cascade of consequences spilled across\nthe region over the past decade, destabilizing nations and\nspreading a tide of trafficked weapons into villages, towns,\nand cities. In Nigeria, Boko Haram expanded its area of\ncontrol and spidered into Cameroon,\nChad, and Niger.In the first\nof the Trafficking in the Sahel features, we\ndescribed the 2011 NATO intervention in Libya as a pivotal\nmoment. Tuareg soldiers serving in the Libyan army looted\nweapons, returning to Mali, where a series of rebellions\ncreated a dangerous, chaotic security\nvacuum.Extremist groups captured Malian military and\npolice bases, adding fresh stockades of weapons to their\nexpanding arsenals. The Liptako-Gourma\ntransborder area became a battlefield and bartering ground\nfor a burgeoning illegal arms trade.The chronic\nviolence has killed thousands and displaced more than two\nmillion Sahelians, as of December\n2022.Meanwhile, the ongoing conflict\nin Sudan has caused further disruptions, said Mar Dieye,\nwho heads the UN Integrated Strategy for the Sahel (UNISS).“Soldiers\nare selling their guns to get food, and this will add fuel\nto fire,” he told UN News. “This is extremely\nserious, and we are calling for all international actors to\nscale up their\nsupport.” African-tailored\nterrorismAgainst this backdrop sits the ever-present\nthreat of terrorism, according the UN Security Council\nCounter-Terrorism Committee’s Executive Directorate (CTED).In\na bid to appeal to local audiences, Islamic State (ISIL)\naffiliates have, since 2017, attempted to “Africanize”\nreferences and languages, using African literature to\njustify the terrorist group’s views, CTED said in its\nreport ISIL\nin Africa: Key Trends and\nDevelopments.Currently, the Lake Chad Basin\nand Central Sahel have emerged as epicentres\nand incubators of terrorism and violent extremism,\nauthorities warned.In the background, the illicit\nweapons trade perpetuates the chaos. The UNODC report showed\nthat flows of illegal arms from Libya since 2019 have\nexpanded to include newly manufactured assault\nrifles. Partners against\ncrimeReflecting this sinister trend, weapons\nseizures increased by 105 per cent between 2017 and 2021,\nand sting operations continue, said Amado Philip de Andrès,\nUNODC’s regional representative for West and Central\nAfrica.Joint investigations and cross-border\ncooperation are a winning combination, he said. One such operation\ncrushed a terrorist network’s firearms supply route in\nDecember, and new partnerships are\nflourishing, including Niger’s military cooperation\nagreements with Benin and Burkina Faso.To fight\nterrorism and violent extremism, concerned nations in the\nregion launched the Accra Initiative in 2017, deploying\njoint operations, initiating confidence-building efforts in\nhotspot areas, and calling for operationalizing a\nmultinational joint task force comprising 10,000\nsoldiers.For its part, the UN and the region’s\ncountries work to strengthen the resilience of border\ncommunities and facilitate the return of displaced persons.\nTraction in advancing the African Union’s ground-breaking\nSilencing the Guns initiative is also under way, with a UN\ntask force supporting an annual\namnesty month and lending technical assistance on small\narms control.To build on these successes, UNODC\nrecommended that Sahel countries reinforce efforts to\ncollect data on firearms trafficking to improve\nunderstanding of and stop national and transnational\nflows.But, political and operational support of\npartners remains essential to stabilize the region, said\nMartha Ama Akyaa Pobee, the UN Assistant Secretary-General\nfor Africa.“Decisive progress in the fight against\nterrorism, violent extremism, and organized crime in the\nSahel must be made desperately,” she said.\n“Without significant gains, it will become increasingly\ndifficult to reverse the security trajectory in the Sahel\nand the continued expansion of insecurity to coastal\ncountries in West Africa.” ‘We are\nall Burkinabes’The backlash of the illicit arms\ntrade is felt strongest on the ground. In the village of\nBolle, Burkina Faso, a fragile security landscape crumbled\nfrighteningly in 2019, when fierce fighting among heavily\narmed groups along the Malian border drove more than 100,000\npeople into the area to seek safety.Sahelians like\nChief Diambendi Madiega have worked together to welcome as\nmany as they could.“The concern I had was how to\ntake care of the displaced people,” he said, upon\nreceiving a UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR, award\nin 2021 for hosting more than 2,500 people.“The\nresponsibility is mine,” he explained. “Anything I can\nto do help them, I will. I am happy for what this community\nhas done. This shows that we are all\nBurkinabes.”The UN, partners, and\nSahelians themselves working for peace in the Sahel are\nmaking inroads and introducing new efforts, including\nthese:UN Peacekeeping adopted a strategy\nfor disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration of former\ncombatants.The UN Regional Centre for Peace and\nDisarmament in Africa (UNREC) and the UN Development\nProgramme (UNDP), in a joint project,\nassisted nine Sahelian countries in adopting a regional\naction plan to combat the illicit arms trade.UNDP\nfacilitated the voluntary surrender of over 40,000 small\narms and light weapons in West Africa, built more than 300\nhouses, nearly 300 market stalls, and clinics and schools in\nnortheastern Nigeria, and provided livelihoods for youth to\nprotect them from sliding into poverty or being recruited\ninto violent extremism.The UN Office of\nCounter-Terrorism (UNOCT)\nsupports the regional G5 Sahel Force in a project\nfocused on criminal justice, border security management, and\npreventing radicalization and violent extremism.A\nUN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) programme helps adolescents\nlearn about the danger of small arms, combining basic gun\nsafety education with leadership development, vocational\ntraining, and conflict resolution techniques.UN\nregional directors and UNOWAS approved in November the\nlaunch of a revamped “peace and security offer” for the\nSahel and works with the Timbuktu Institute and the\nnon-governmental organization Dialogue sans\nfrontières on an initiative aimed\nat strengthening traditional dialogue and trust-building\nplatforms between communities in the border regions of\nBurkina Faso, Mali, and\nNiger.ENDS\n\n© Scoop Media\n\n\nDid you know Scoop has an Ethical Paywall?\nIf you're using Scoop for work, your organisation needs to pay a small license fee with Scoop Pro. 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