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A series of massive blasts recently rocked Equatorial Guinea’s city of Bata. The explosions, at an army barracks, killed over 100 people and destroyed military buildings as well as people’s homes around the site. President Teodoro Obiang Nguema stated that the explosions were “caused by negligence of the unit in charge of storing explosives, dynamite and ammunition at the Nkoa Ntoma military camp”.
Unplanned explosions at munitions sites have occurred on all continents over the past 40 years, in both developed and developing countries. These can result in the loss of human lives and other preventable damage.
Explosions in and of themselves do not necessarily imply the mismanagement of stocks, as accidents can always happen, but many do result from mismanagement.
Nicolas is the Small Arms Survey s head of data and analytics as well as a senior researcher.
He oversees projects and undertakes research on armed actors and illicit flows of arms and ammunition, with particular focus on Africa and Europe. Nicolas previously worked for Geneva Call, an organization specializing in engaging with non-state armed groups on humanitarian issues, and for the United Nations Panel of Experts on Liberia.
He holds a master’s in public administration from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, and a PhD from the University of Brighton s school of applied social sciences.
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In the space of a week, our country endured two mass shootings â one in Boulder and the other in Atlanta, Georgia. Although these shootings dominated headlines, CNN reported at least 20 mass shootings across the country in the two weeks following the spa shootings in Atlanta. Theyâre the stuff of nightmares, for the families of the victims as well as for those related to the shooter. And in grocery stores, schools, spas, churches, movie theaters, nightclubs â any place of public congregation â we are just not safe.Â
The aftermath brings the customary responses: thoughts and prayers for the victims and their families; articles analyzing the troubled perpetrator; social media debates around implicit bias, racism, media responses and law enforcement; and partisan debates over whether we need to loosen or tighten gun laws. (Side note: Mass shootings are disproportionately committed by angered white men who legally obtain weapons capable of killing multiple people
Daniel E. Toomey April 6, 2021
It was ironic that the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee’s recent hearing to deal with the tragic killings of seven persons in Georgia coincided with the even more tragic, but all too predictable, events in Boulder, Colo., where a likely deranged man opened fire on unsuspecting shoppers and vaccine seekers at a supermarket, killing 10 persons. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), tanned and rested from his recent trip to Cancun during Texas’ recent energy crisis, sought to out-Trump Trump while the “former guy” was on lockdown from Twitter. At the hearing, Cruz, who enjoys an A+ rating from the now-bankrupt NRA, called the efforts of the Judiciary Committee to bring some kind of reasonable restraints on the out-of-control number of deaths due to gunfire, merely “theatre.” I agree that it is “theatre,” but it is “theatre of the absurd.”