Moreover, the conflict in Congo weakens Uganda in its hidden conflict with Sudan.

ECONOMIST: Uganda and Congo

The 2011 Education for All Global Monitoring Report, The hidden crisis: Armed conflict and education, warned that armed conflict was robbing 28 million children of an education.

UNESCO: 2011 - The year in education

The discussion focused on the follow-up and implementation of UN Security Council resolution 1998 on the protection of children in armed conflict, which was adopted shortly after the publication of the 2011 UNESCO Global Monitoring Report on Education for All on the hidden crisis of education in conflict.

UNESCO: Communication and Information

While there have been claims of "massive damage" to the estimated stockpile of 10, 000 Hamas missiles, the organisation itself - unsurprisingly - maintains that it still retains substantial stocks, including of longer range weapons, that had been hidden on the assumption that the conflict might last weeks.

BBC: How did Iron Dome perform over course of Gaza clash?

It's in the west African state of Congo Brazzaville and at least half-a-million people have been made homeless by a conflict, which has until now been hidden in the dense forests.

BBC: Congo Brazzaville's hidden war

Famously, the government was caught out earlier this year when analysis of this hidden data showed who had been working on documents about Iraq's readiness for conflict.

BBC: NEWS | Technology | Document deluge threatens firms

In fact, if IC has any real hidden agenda it is less likely about wanting to draw the U.S. into armed conflict in Africa and more likely to be an advertising relationship with Facebook.

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