Fighting fire with fire

25 March 2010 01:30 am

Illegal fire arms are burnt in Nairobi as part of a campaign by the Kenyan government to mop-up illicit small
arms and light weapons that are at the centre of increasing violent crime in Kenya and Africa. In Africa and
elsewhere, the illicit trade in small arms and light weapons is opaque, amorphous and dynamic and a global
enterprise, put at some 1 billion US dollars, or 10-20% of the global trade, with illicit weapons across Africa
coming from virtually every major arms producing country in the world, according to arms sales and arms
management monitoring programmes in the US and South Africa. AFP