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The influx of weapons and ammunition into conflict zones escalates tensions and significantly risks diversion and proliferation, even in post-conflict, says Adedeji Ebo, the Deputy to the High Representative of the UN Office for Disarmament Affairs, in his briefing to the UN Security Council.<\/p>\n
UN News reports that Mr. Ebo, a Nigerian, briefed the Council on 25 July on the current threats to international peace and security.<\/p>\n
He emphasized that “Any transfer of weapons and ammunition must take place…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> The influx of weapons and ammunition into conflict zones escalates tensions and significantly risks diversion and proliferation, even in post-conflict, says Adedeji Ebo, the Deputy to the High Representative of the UN Office for Disarmament Affairs, in his briefing to the UN Security Council. UN News reports that Mr. Ebo, a Nigerian, briefed the Council […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":177512,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn04.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00540311:7037dcff14fffc44ab0d58c775654571:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1109],"tags":[24798,258,256,2444,5134,35130,8835,257,1135,254,24123,5122,8439],"class_list":["post-177511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sierra-leone","tag-adedeji","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-conflict","tag-dangerous","tag-ebo","tag-influx","tag-news","tag-sierra-leone-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-uns","tag-weapons","tag-zones"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn04.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00540311:7037dcff14fffc44ab0d58c775654571:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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