Questions about pay in the new army’s first and only brigade prompt chuckles among the men. In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), soldiering on a steady salary has never been part of the deal. Less humorous are the former child combatants and illiterates among the ill-trained guerrilla fighters and government soldiers.
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/ 15 December 2003
More than 4 000kg of illegal ivory is on sale in Nigeria, Côte d’Ivoire and Senegal — three countries singled out for failing to regulate a trade that is fueling poaching and threatening the survival of elephants, wildlife advocacy groups said in a new report.