According to the Russian Ukraine and Russia over the first black Africa’s largest suppliers of weapons. Britain, the United States has a lot of smuggling of weapons, may pose a serious threat to global security.
Funded by the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, two Dutch and a French expert of experts drafted a increasing the supply of weapons to unstable regions of this conflict between countries. The world should be based on UN General Assembly Resolution 2006, to formulate and supply of conventional arms imports and exports internationally accepted standards, as soon as the world’s arms trade treaty negotiated and signed.
Swedish think tank report, the legal weapons supply in 2006-2010 were among the world delivered to the Central African region, 127 artillery pieces, 160 tanks, 91 fighter jets, 37 military transport aircraft, 79 helicopters, eight ships, Missile 70. China has become the main supplier of weapons. 1996 to 2010, the black list of the top three African arms importer list changes frequently, which topped the list in Angola between 1996 and 2000, accounting for regional arms purchases 25% of the total, 20% in Ethiopia, Eritrea (12%); Sudan between 2001 and 2005 ranked top, accounting for 29%, followed by Ethiopia (17%) and Angola (16%); in the top three-year period 2006-2010 followed by Nigeria (20%), Sudan (16%), Chad (9% ) and Namibia (9%). In the supply of illegal weapons, as NATO launched the war in Libya, combined with rampant insurgency base, black Africa, a very serious problem of illegal weapons in circulation, the major markets, Chad, Niger, Mali and other countries. But in general terms, the black African countries is relatively small-scale arms smuggling.
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute reports that between 2006-2010, China has become the first black Africa’s largest suppliers of weapons, accounting for 25% of the overall market share, accounting for 20% of the Ukraine, Russia accounted for only 11%. In 2001-2005, the Russian arms market in black Africa’s share also up 50% and 30% before. In recent years, China’s arms supplies to the black African countries continued substantial increase in market share from 6% to 25%, beat all the competitors here, especially the United States, the latter in the black arms market in Africa has been unable to share more than 3 %. China has 16 countries in the region supply of arms, is Nigeria’s largest customer, accounting for Chinese arms supplies to the region 35% of the total; Ukraine in black Africa’s major partners, Chad, accounting for 28%; Russia were in the region 5 export arms to countries, including Sudan’s exclusive 77%, and the remaining four countries are Chad, Niger, Senegal and Uganda. In recent years, other countries have begun to actively supply of weapons to black Africa, including Italy, Singapore, Israel, Turkey, the export of military equipment to Nigeria, the United States began to Congo, Botswana, Cameroon, Chad, Ghana, the supply of weapons, Bulgaria, Mali, the main market.
Black African countries in recent years, large-scale arms trade a lot, such as Serbia, Chad supply to 4 million rounds of 5.56 mm rifle bullet, Slovakia to supply 50 000 Chad 30-mm VOG-17 rockets, Ukraine to supply 31 000 Chad automatic rifles , 1500 sets of portable anti-tank RPG-7 rocket launchers and 550 machine guns. Ukraine in 2006 to supply 9 million Congolese 7.62-caliber bullets, Serbia to Equatorial Guinea to supply 300 million rounds of ammunition. China to Nigeria in 2007 the supply 40000 Kalashnikov automatic rifles, the supply of the Congo, Serbia, 5000 Kalashnikov automatic rifles.
Swedish think tank that, compared with the 1980s, black Africa, the size of the legal arms trade cut by three quarters. The size of the actual transactions may not be substantially reduced, because the transaction did not have many weapons to the United Nations Register of Conventional Arms report, the average ratio of the actual reporting only one in five. Black African countries in the region of the supply of weapons are worth any attention, because the volatile situation in the region, al-Qaeda activities between countries and between the regular outbreaks of tribal territorial and religious conflicts. Sanctions by the UN arms embargo in the 13 countries, eight countries from black Africa, including Cote d’Ivoire, Congo, Eritrea, Liberia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan (Darfur region). In recent years, found 14 cases of the black African countries, a large number of illegal supply of weapons smuggling cases, in which Britain has 4 cases, including to Sierra Leone smuggling armored vehicles (2008 Survey), the Sudan smuggled BV-206 Armored SUV (2009 survey), to smuggle automatic rifles and ammunition, Nigeria (2010 survey), to a large number of Nigerian trafficking of small arms made in China (2011 survey). Three from the United States, including automatic rifles smuggled to Sudan (2008 survey), smuggling of light weapons to Côte d’Ivoire and tear gas (2010 survey), from Bosnia to Somalia smuggling Kalashnikov automatic rifle (2010 survey) .
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute stressed that during the war in 2011, Libya, Gaddafi regime’s many weapons and ammunition looted by rebels, a large flow of weapons to neighboring countries, mainly black African countries, including automatic rifles, portable air defense missile systems, portable anti-tank missile system. Black Africa sharp fighting rebel forces of the circumstantial evidence is substantially improved. Which the United Nations Security Council has passed a resolution to take all measures to prevent the loss of Libya’s weapons. Although the other areas of conflict Sudan sanctions by the UN arms embargo, but still from Belarus, Russia, Ukraine and other countries to buy weapons, some weapons could flow to Darfur, including the 2008 purchase from the Su-25 fighters in Belarus. Russia and Ukraine, while the supply of weapons to the Sudanese parties to the conflict, such as southern Sudan from the Ukraine to get a 110 T-72 tanks from Russia to be 9 m-17 helicopters. The prevalence of Somali pirates as the security of the entire international community posed a serious challenge to U.S. and British smuggling of weapons to Somalia and other countries exacerbate this risk. Somalia in 2010 to supply the British nearly 500 Kalashnikov automatic rifles, 2009, U.S. exports to Somalia, Uganda, funded about 40 tons of light weapons and ammunition, the total value of more than $ 10 million, the East African Somalia, a country also supplied to the domestic 69 anti-tank rocket launcher, which may have a considerable part of the weapons from falling into the hands of pirates or extremist. Survey shows that smuggling of weapons to the Somali gangs mainly from Yemen and Eritrea. To prevent the infiltration of armed extremists in Somalia, Kenya, recently was forced to use just the introduction of armored equipment, Z-9 helicopters and F-5E fighter.
In short, the Swedish think tank report cited data again confirmed a number of security experts to determine that black Africa will become the 21st century international security and stability of the major threats. Because here all the significant negative trends, including the terrorists have gathered, territorial conflicts continued, increasingly fierce competition for resources, legal confusion, serious arms smuggling, piracy and other threats to increase. (
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