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Mercenaries: An African Security Dilemma »
Authors: Abdel-Fatau Musah, J. 'Kayode Fayemi
ISBN-13: 9780745314716, ISBN-10: 0745314716
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Pluto Press
Date Published: November 1999
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: Abdel-Fatau Musah
Abdel-Fatau Musah was formerly the Research and Publications Co-ordinator at the Centre for Democracy & Development. J. ‘Kayode Fayemi is the Executive Director of the Centre for Democracy & Development.Based in London, the Centre for Democracy & Development is an independent NGO dedicated to policy-oriented scholarship in the areas of democratic development and peacebuilding.
Book Synopsis
This book provides a critique of mercenary involvement in post Cold-War African conflicts. Countries discussed include Sierra Leone, Zaire, Angola, Uganda and Congo.
Table of Contents
| About the Centre for Democracy and Development | ||
| Foreword | ||
| Acknowledgements | ||
| Abbreviations and Acronyms | ||
| Introduction | 1 | |
| 1 | Africa in Search of Security: Mercenaries and Conflicts - An Overview | 13 |
| 2 | Private Military Companies and African Security 1990-98 | 43 |
| 3 | A Country Under Siege: State Decay and Corporate Military Intervention in Sierra Leone | 76 |
| 4 | The Hand of War: Mercenaries in the Former Zaire 1996-97 | 117 |
| 5 | Mining for Serious Trouble: Jean-Raymond Boulle and his Corporate Empire Project | 155 |
| 6 | Mercenaries, Human Rights and Legality | 169 |
| 7 | The OAU Convention for the Elimination of Mercenarism and Civil Conflicts | 198 |
| 8 | Understanding the African Security Crisis | 210 |
| 9 | Arresting the Tide of Mercenaries: Prospects for Regional Control | 233 |
| Conclusion | 257 | |
| App. I | Mercenaries: Africa's Experience, 1950s-1990 | 265 |
| App. II | Convention for the Elimination of Mercenarism in Africa | 275 |
| App. III | OAU Resolution on the Activities of Mercenaries (1967) | 281 |
| App. IV | OAU Declaration on the Activities of Mercenaries in Africa (1971) | 283 |
| App. V | OAU Convention for the Elimination of Mercenaries in Africa (1972) | 286 |
| App. VI | The Report by the UN Special Rapporteur on the Use of Mercenaries, 1998 | 289 |
| Notes on Contributors | 321 | |
| Index | 323 |
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History
African History General African History
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