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Title: | United Nations sanctions and Africa's wars of enrichment |
Author: | Strydom, Hennie |
Year: | 2001 |
Periodical: | South African Yearbook of International Law |
Volume: | 26 |
Pages: | 41-61 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Sierra Leone Angola |
Subjects: | UN economic sanctions |
Abstract: | Conflict-ridden spaces in Africa are not filled with leadership elites with visions of rescue operations in the interest of State-formation and post-conflict peace-building, but with patronage networks that thrive on the economic rewards of disorder. Since the 1960s, too many African heads of State have presided over massive declines in African standards of living while carefully enriching themselves and their cronies. Since the beginning of the nineties greater international cooperation has led to a breakthrough in the willingness of the superpowers to use coercive measures contained in Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter against delinquent members of the international community. Under this new sanctions activism, a number of African States are currently facing trade, financial, travel and economic sanctions, the outcome of which is the subject of a global debate on and reassessment of the effectiveness of nonmilitary sanctions in general. A defining characteristic of the many studies on sanctions is their gloomy assessment of sanctions' efficacy. This paper examines current UN sanctions enforcement efforts in Africa and the obstacles they face. It focuses on Angola (UNITA) and Sierra Leone's Revolutionary United Front (RUF). Notes, ref. |