WEAPON SUPPLIES INTO SOUTH SUDAN’S CIVIL WAR

Based on three years of fieldwork, this report shows how military equipment has reached all sides of South Sudan’s civil war: through the intermediation of neighbouring states, through networks of brokers and intermediaries, and via air and land logistics.

DIVERSION DIGEST – ISSUE 1

This first edition of CAR’s Diversion Digest presents a statistical analysis of how weapons diversion occurs. It looks at more than a thousand cases where weapons and ammunition have been captured, lost, stolen or otherwise diverted to illicit actors, and considers how the international Arms Trade Treaty might address these main causes of diversion.

SUDANESE STOCKPILES AND REGIONAL WEAPON DIVERSION

An analysis of captured equipment in the possession of the Sudan People’s Liberation Army-North in the Nuba Mountains.

NEW SUDANESE WEAPONS IN BLUE NILE STATE

This Dispatch provides evidence of ongoing efforts by the Sudanese government to obscure the origin of weapons and ammunition it supplies to its forces and proxy armed groups. It also reveals Sudan’s access to military and commercial supply lines from Iran and European States.

MARITIME INTERDICTIONS OF WEAPON SUPPLIES TO SOMALIA AND YEMEN

This Dispatch examines weapons seized from illegal dhow shipments destined for Somalia and Yemen, in February and March 2016.

WEAPONS AND AMMUNITION AIRDROPPED TO SPLA-iO FORCES IN SOUTH SUDAN

This Dispatch documents weapons and ammunition supplied by Khartoum and airdropped to SPLA-iO rebel forces in South Sudan in November 2014.

DISTRIBUTION OF IRANIAN AMMUNITION IN AFRICA

This report documents six years of collaborative investigations into the distribution of Iranian ammunition in Africa. It is the first comprehensive study of Iran’s weapon ‘footprint’ on the continent.

Focusing on nine African states, it identifies Iranian-manufactured ammunition in service with government forces and a variety of non-state entities, including foreign-backed insurgents, rebel forces, Islamist-oriented armed groups, and warring civilian communities.