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• In October 1993, on the undercard of a Lennox Lewis-Frank Bruno fight, Calzaghe made his professional debut at Cardiff Arms Park.
The Belize-flagged Ukrainian shipping vessel MV Faina will finally deliver its consignment of Russian tanks, grenade launchers and other small arms to the Kenyan port of Mombassa in the next few days, four months late. The ship's captain is dead. Its crew must be desperate to get ashore...
The Kenyan government says that's rubbish. According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, GOSS stands for "General Ordinance and Security Supplies," a division of the Kenyan Defense Ministry. "This is the thing with these sort of acronyms - they could mean anything. It's perfectly plausible, and it's up...
The Ukrainian government has repeatedly said that the arms are bound for Kenya. Mykola Malomuzh, the chief of Ukraine's state weapons-exporting agency, Ukrspetsexport, said Kenya had assured the government that it and not South Sudan was the owner of the tanks. "The cargo onboard the ship was transported...
The Sudan People's Liberation Movement, which controls the government in the south, has distanced itself from the suggestion that the tanks were bound for them. "The SPLA [Sudan People's Liberation Army] can buy arms anywhere in the world legally. It doesn't have to do it illegally," said...