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Welcome to ConflictVoice. We are a group of independent bloggers and campaigners who focus on issues around the impact of conflict on the world's poorest people.Catch up with great posts, pictures and videos- read about what happened during the Arms Trade Treaty negotiations in the UN in October 2009. We had ConflictVoice bloggers at the UN and across the globe highlighting what happened.
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You don’t fight the old story. You write a new one.
Yes, I know, all together now, let me hear you say “duh”.
For many years I’ve had a catch in my throat from all the poverty, corruption and…
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MARSABIT, 18 December 2009 (IRIN) - Cattle raids, inter-communal resource conflicts and banditry are common across much of the arid lands of northern Kenya, where firearms are increasingly common among pastoralist communities. In 2009 alone, such violence claimed more than 354 lives, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Kenya.
Article in The East African on Kenya’s role in supporting the Arms Trade Treaty
On Monday President Kibaki directed Kenya’s security agencies to disarm Kenyans in possession of illegal small arms and light weapons with immediate effect. Mutuku Nguli, PeaceNet-Kenya CEO and International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA) member representing the Great Lakes and the SADC regions writes.
