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Peace Efforts in African Great Lakes Region

Published: Dec. 16, 2022

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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.

Click here for reporting in The Guardian, 12/12/2022
Click here to read (in French) about the Great Lakes Region Consortium.
Click here to read about the work of Friends Peace Teams in the region.
Click here to watch for news of the October 2023 Peace Conference in Bujumbura, Burundi.


from Daniel Clarke Flynn, Belgium and Luxembourg Yearly Meeting, former nuclear weapon military officer (1961-1963)