Australia sold weapons to Mali as UN warned violence creating 'humanitarian disaster'

Exclusive: companies given 31 permits last year to export arms to cluster of African nations suffering from instability and violence

The Australian government approved a large volume of weapons sales to war-torn Mali in the same year the United Nations warned escalating violence was creating an “unprecedented humanitarian disaster” in the West African nation.

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