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💎 After decade at center of global fight against conflict diamonds, CAR saw #KimberleyProcess embargo lifted late 2024
📘 Our new report finds that sanctions harmed artisanal miners more than armed groups, who increasingly turn to gold for financing
Read: ipisresearch.be/publication/...
#CARcrisis
📘 Our new report finds that sanctions harmed artisanal miners more than armed groups, who increasingly turn to gold for financing
Read: ipisresearch.be/publication/...
#CARcrisis
Diamonds, conflict and crime in the Central African Republic: The lifting of the last Kimberley Process embargo
For over a decade, the Central African Republic (CAR) has been at the center of international efforts to curb the trade in conflict diamonds. In 2013, the Kimberley Process (KP) imposed a rough diamon...
ipisresearch.be
June 24, 2025 at 6:26 AM
💎 After decade at center of global fight against conflict diamonds, CAR saw #KimberleyProcess embargo lifted late 2024
📘 Our new report finds that sanctions harmed artisanal miners more than armed groups, who increasingly turn to gold for financing
Read: ipisresearch.be/publication/...
#CARcrisis
📘 Our new report finds that sanctions harmed artisanal miners more than armed groups, who increasingly turn to gold for financing
Read: ipisresearch.be/publication/...
#CARcrisis
After 10 months in Bangui prison, researcher Joseph Figueira Martin’s fate remains uncertain as Touadéra stays firm and Wagner uses his case as "example to dissuade other independent observers from travelling to areas in which Russian mercenaries operate" www.africaintelligence.com/central-afri...
Central African Republic : The uncertain fate of the European prisoner in a Bangui jail
The Belgian-Portuguese Joseph Figueira Martin, who works as a consultant for NGOs and international institutions, remains locked up in a Bangui prison that is partly controlled by Wagner. CAR
www.africaintelligence.com
March 18, 2025 at 6:22 AM
After 10 months in Bangui prison, researcher Joseph Figueira Martin’s fate remains uncertain as Touadéra stays firm and Wagner uses his case as "example to dissuade other independent observers from travelling to areas in which Russian mercenaries operate" www.africaintelligence.com/central-afri...
M23’s rebellion is driven by competing claims over land, power & resources. Rwanda is reinforcing it for own strategic objectives—controlling trade & securing buffer in eastern DRC. Intensified militarisaiton of local governance means that, even if M23 can be defeated, lasting peace will take years
January 29, 2025 at 7:29 AM
M23’s rebellion is driven by competing claims over land, power & resources. Rwanda is reinforcing it for own strategic objectives—controlling trade & securing buffer in eastern DRC. Intensified militarisaiton of local governance means that, even if M23 can be defeated, lasting peace will take years