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Members of the militant Al-shabab in southern Somalia Hassan Mahamud Ahmed/IRIN
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    Humanitarian aid, peace support and defence logistics supply chain contracts should be forced to exclude air cargo carriers involved in small arms and light weapons transfer, according to a new report.



    This should also extend to those facilitating the illicit flows of narcotics, precious minerals, metals and hydrocarbons, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute said in a report, Air Transport and Destabilizing Commodity Flows.



    It recommended using existing air safety regulations and specialised training of peacekeepers to enable the UN and EU to identify suspect air cargo carriers operating in Africa and Eastern Europe.



    Air transportation has fuelled war in much of Africa in recent decades, stated the report; in some cases, the carriers were delivering both aid and weapons to the same conflict zones.



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