Mercenaries : an African security dilemma

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Author:

Fayemi, Kayode.

ISBN:

9780745314761

Publication Information:

London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, 2000.

Physical Description:

xv, 334 p. ; 22 cm.

Contents:

Foreword / Lord Avebury -- 1. Africa in Search of Security: Mercenaries and Conflicts - An Overview / Abdel-Fatau Musah and J. 'Kayode Fayemi -- 2. Private Military Companies and African Security 1990-98 / Kevin A. O'Brien -- 3. A Country Under Siege: State Decay and Corporate Military Intervention in Sierra Leone / Abdel-Fatau Musah -- 4. The Hand of War: Mercenaries in the Former Zaire 1996-97 / Khareen Pech -- 5. Mining for Serious Trouble: Jean-Raymond Boulle and his Corporate Empire Project / Johan Peleman -- 6. Mercenaries, Human Rights and Legality / Alex Vines -- 7. The OAU Convention for the Elimination of Mercenarism and Civil Conflicts / Kofi Oteng Kufuor -- 8. Understanding the African Security Crisis / Eboe Hutchful -- 9. Arresting the Tide of Mercenaries: Prospects for Regional Control / 'Funmi Olonisakin -- App. I. Mercenaries: Africa's Experience, 1950s-1990 -- App. II. Convention for the Elimination of Mercenarism in Africa.

App. III. OAU Resolution on the Activities of Mercenaries (1967) -- App. IV. OAU Declaration on the Activities of Mercenaries in Africa (1971) -- App. V. OAU Convention for the Elimination of Mercenaries in Africa (1972) -- App. VI. The Report by the UN Special Rapporteur on the Use of Mercenaries, 1998.

Subject Term:

Mercenary troops -- Africa.

Geographic Term:

Africa -- History -- 1960-

Added Author:

Fayemi, Kayode.

Musah, Abdel-Fatau.

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Summary

This powerful book critiques mercenary involvement in post-Cold War African conflicts. The contributors investigate the links between the rise in internal conflicts and the proliferation of mercenary activities in the 1990s; the distinction in the methods adopted by Cold War mercenaries and their contemporary counterparts; the convoluted network between private armies; business interests and sustained poverty in Africa's poorest countries; and the connection between mercenary activities and arms proliferation. Countries discussed include Sierra Leone, Zaire, Angola, Uganda and Congo.