Dear Friends: Why are Quakers supporting peace efforts by Africans in their Great Lakes Region Consortium? Wherever there are valuable minerals to be mined – whether in Africa or eastern Ukraine – outside political and investor power will combine to conscript young men, train them with military weapons, and send them to risk their lives for benefits they will never see for themselves.
For more information, please see the links I sent to Western Friend’s weekly online newsletter, which are posted here: https://westernfriend.org/peace-efforts-african-great-lakes-region
– Daniel Clarke Flynn, Belgium and Luxembourg Yearly Meeting