It was reportedly given to child soldiers in West African armed conflicts.

Holbrooke decried a "double standard" whereby African conflicts received insufficient global attention.

Washington has been reluctant to commit troops anywhere; others have been reluctant to become involved in African conflicts.

It shows the colonial and native African conflict caused by colonialism and differing views on how life should be lived.

The Cuban move coincided with talks among the principal parties in the southern African conflict.

Bullock's stories often feature topical issues based on real-life African conflicts.

However, perhaps this gives us a clue to the nature and effect of these terrifying African conflicts.

Is that what fundamentally disturbs us about these African conflicts?

Many African conflicts pit one tribe or community against another.

Decades of southern African conflict in the late 20th century made South Africa a training ground for soldiers of fortune.