A recent UN report on arms trafficking has revealed that the Romanian state agency ROMARM has sold weapons to FARC, the main insurgency in Columbia, via the arms dealer Monzer al Kassar. Al Kassar “was sentenced on 25 February 2009 in the US District Court for Southern New York for agreeing to supply weapons to [...]

I  thought I’d share upcoming Africa-related upcoming events going on in Chicago in the next couple of months. I  thought I’d share upcoming Africa-related upcoming events going on in Chicago in the next couple of months. Wednesday, October 14 Kinobe and Soul Beat Africa (Uganda/African fusion) 8:30 pm at Old Town School of Folk Music [...]