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The Yemen conflict has been great business for SA arms dealers
New Open Secrets report says South Africans should demand an end to the flow of weapons to this tragedy. 00:02
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Yemen is the locus of the worldâs worst humanitarian crisis, leaving 80% of the population in need of humanitarian help.
Schools, factories and hospitals have been destroyed and there is evidence that civilians have been deliberately targeted. Itâs a complex conflict with abuses on all sides. In September 2020, a UN report concluded that both Saudi Arabia and the UAE, along with the government of Yemen and secessionist forces, have committed acts that may amount to war crimes. These actions include targeting and murdering civilians, rape and sexual violence, torture, and use of child soldiers.
The Deadly Alphabet Soup That Is India s Defence Acquisition Procedure
Service officers and defence ministry officials concede that the âalphabetic morse codeâ that comprises communications with vendors pose a âformidable comprehensibleâ challenge even to themselves.
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Security19/Jan/2021
Every day we are assaulted by a miasma of bewildering acronyms and abbreviations in official documents, newspapers and on television, all guaranteed to drown millions of us in thick alphabet soup.
But this confusion is possibly paramount in Indiaâs defence acquisition procedure, that remains a deadly cocktail of abridged and shortened terms that even its originators, at times, find difficult to comprehend or unravel. Service officers and Ministry of Defence (MoD) officials concede that the âalphabetic morse codeâ that comprises almost all their internal communi