Sudan
Govt to Record, Store Illegal Guns Seized from Civilians in South Sudan
BBC News
20 June 2008
Southern Sudanese authorities have begun a campaign to collect large quantities of weapons held by civilians following decades of civil war. South Sudan's Minister of Internal Affairs, Paul Mayom, said only a few guns had been handed in voluntarily and new measures were required. Disarmament had to be backed by the army and take place simultaneously across communities, he said. Sudan's north-south civil war cost... ( gunpolicy.org )
Sudan
More Killings Feared as Sudan Seizes Illegal Guns from Civilians
Afrol News (Norway)
20 June 2008
Southern Sudanese authorities have embarked on a massive campaign to disarm civilians in possession of weapons to end decades of civil war, which has killed hundreds of thousands in the country. The region's Internal Affairs Minister Paul Mayom said few guns had been handed in voluntarily, calling for a new army backed search for weapons, further promising that even communities nearby would also be disarmed to avoid bloodshed. ... ( gunpolicy.org )
Sudan
South Sudan Begins Mass Campaign to Confiscate Civilian Guns
Reuters
20 June 2008
JUBA, Sudan -- South Sudanese authorities have begun to collect thousands of guns amassed by civilians during decades of war to try to end tribal conflicts which claim dozens of lives each year, officials said. Since a 2005 north-south peace deal ended Africa's longest civil war, efforts by the semi-autonomous southern government to disarm civilians have claimed an estimated 1,500 lives because they took weapons from some tribes... ( gunpolicy.org )
Sudan
Taking Civilians' Guns by Force Will Not Improve Security in South Sudan
Sudan Tribune (France), Opinion
2 June 2008
In response to decades of armed violence and cattle rustling, the Government of South Sudan (GoSS) is planning a campaign to forcibly collect firearms from southern citizens. Government officials' motivations are understandable. Endemic pastoralist violence is reaching dangerous levels and there are widespread suspicions of outside support for the perpetrators as part of efforts to scupper the fragile north-south peace process. But coercive... ( gunpolicy.org )
Italy, Libya, Chad, Sudan, China
Libya Tried to Buy 1 Million Chinese Assault Rifles, Perhaps for Chad, Sudan
Associated Press
13 April 2008
PERUGIA, Italy -- The Libyan officer tried to cloak the purpose of his call to the Italian arms dealer. "A friend," he said, wanted to buy 1 million "pieces" and 50 million items of "food." But when that phone call was placed in 2006, Italian police were listening. They knew the meaning. Libya was shopping for guns -- lots of them. Authorities shadowed the negotiations between Libyan officials and a group of black-market... ( gunpolicy.org )
Uganda, Sudan, Africa
Ugandan Military Seize 'Massive Cache' of Illegal Guns in West Nile Region
Sunday Vision (Kampala)
15 March 2008
A massive cache of illegal arms has been seized by security agencies in the West Nile region, in the past fortnight. With the accumulation of illegal arms in the West Nile, following the 20-year-old LRA war and other armed conflicts in the neighbouring region's neighbouring countries, the security agencies swung into action early this month, to halt it. The operation by security and intelligence services and local people,... ( gunpolicy.org )
China, Sudan
China Denies Dramatic Increase in Assault Weapon sales to Sudan, Darfur
Associated Press
14 March 2008
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- A U.S.-based human rights group said China dramatically boosted small-arms sales to Sudan as violence escalated in Darfur. Beijing denied the group's report on Friday. The report released Thursday by Human Rights First said China is the biggest supplier of small arms to Sudan. It provided 90 percent of all the African nation's small arms acquisitions between 2004 and 2006, totaling more than $50 million.... ( gunpolicy.org )
China, Sudan
China Sold $55 Million Worth of Guns to Sudan, Says Human Rights Group
Agence France Presse
13 March 2008
BEIJING -- China is the biggest supplier of small arms to Sudan following three years of increased sales that helped fuel violence in the African nation's Darfur region, a US-based rights group has said. From 2004 to 2006, China sold over 55 million dollars worth of small arms to the Sudanese government, which then armed the Arab militias accused of genocide in Darfur, Human Rights First said in a report released on Thursday. ... ( gunpolicy.org )
Sudan, China, Chad, Austria
Guns, Grenade Launchers in Chad, Darfur Traced Back to China, Austria
Mother Jones (USA)
22 February 2008
My first glimpse into the flow of small arms into Darfur began at 4:45 on a February morning in 2006. The lights were off in the first-class Sudan Airways lounge at Khartoum International Airport. Sitting to my left was Abdallah, resplendent in white robes, sporting spectacles and a sharply trimmed goatee. Back then, Abdallah's younger brother, Mahamat Nour, was the leader of an 8,000-man rebel force sworn to overthrow the government of... ( gunpolicy.org )
Sudan, Uganda, Kenya
Uganda, Kenya, Sudan in Talks Over Arms Trafficking in Karamoja Region
Monitor (Kampala)
15 January 2008
Security chiefs from the governments of Uganda and South Sudan have started discussions to end the long persistent arms trafficking in the region. According to the UPDF, the strategy is aimed at reducing gun flow in to Karamoja region and to ensure that the UPDF disarmament exercise achieves the 100 per cent result for peace in Karamoja. The UPDF and local leaders in Karamoja region have on several occasions hinted that... ( gunpolicy.org )
Sudan, Uganda, Kenya
Ugandan Military Announce Arrest of Gun Runner Sought for Past 5 Years
Monitor (Kampala)
13 January 2008
KARAMOJA -- The UPDF's special intelligence squad against arms trafficking in Karamoja region have arrested a leading arms trafficker in Uganda and Kenya. Livingstone Musoba, a Kenyan from Kipsongo, Kitale village whom both the Ugandan and Kenyan authorities have been hunting for five years was arrested on Tuesday in Uganda. Information reaching Sunday Monitor indicates that Simon Cheprikei from Serendeti in Bukwo, who... ( gunpolicy.org )
Uganda, Sudan
Ugandan Army Warns Refugees Not to Buy Guns Smuggled in from Sudan
New Vision (Kampala)
3 January 2008
The army has warned the internally displaced persons (IDPs) living on the border of southern Sudan and Karamoja, currently returning to their homes, against the buying and selling of military hardware. There has been an influx of guns and other military hardware from southern Sudan and Karamoja into some parts of Acholi sub-region. This is especially so along the border in Agoro and Orom sub-counties in Kitgum district. The... ( gunpolicy.org )
Uganda, Sudan
Disarmament Crisis Over Rising Gun Trade in Uganda's Karamoja Region
Monitor (Kampala)
31 December 2007
The Government's hopes to get rid of illicit arms in the volatile Karamoja region have suffered a setback following new reports of serious re-armament that is threatening to outstrip disarmament efforts. The failure has been attributed to increased gun trafficking in the area, a profitable business involving even some of the local leaders who bribe authorities to smuggle guns from neghbouring districts. Citing a recent... ( gunpolicy.org )
Sudan
Gun Control Drive by Police, Army Brings South Sudanese Capital to a Halt
Reuters
29 September 2007
JUBA, Sudan -- Thousands of soldiers supporting a police crackdown on illegal weapons brought South Sudan's capital Juba to a halt on Saturday, officials said. "We have deployed something going on to 3,000 troops," said army spokesman Kuol Diem Kuol. "They are there to block the roads but not to search houses -- that is (for) the police." Crime has become rife in the city since it became the seat of a newly formed semi-autonomous... ( gunpolicy.org )
Uganda, Sudan, Kenya
An AK-47 Now Costs Only 2 Cows on Uganda, Sudan, Kenya Borders
New Vision (Kampala)
19 March 2007
The trafficking in small arms along the Uganda, Sudan and Kenya borders is thriving to the extent that the cost of an AK-47 assault rifle has dropped from 10 cows in 1986 to two cows today. On the Uganda-Sudan border, an AK-47 rifle goes for sh100,000, a pistol for sh50,000 and a bullet for a mere sh200. Inside Sudan, an AK-47 rifle goes for a few chickens. No East African country has as yet submitted a proposal to the... ( gunpolicy.org )
Algeria, Tunisia
International Gun Trafficking Network Said Dismantled in Algeria
Xinhua
25 February 2007
An international arms trafficking network was recently dismantled in Constantine, east of Algiers, local media reported on Saturday. A total of 165 rifles of different calibers, 995 cartridges, a sum of 30,300 euros (39,390 U.S. dollars), a camping-coach and two motor vehicles were seized by the Algerian security forces, according to Algerian daily Liberte. A French national, two Tunisians and 24 Algerians implicated in... ( gunpolicy.org )
Malta, Iraq, Italy, Libya, China, Russia
Maltese Company, Libya, China Accused of Gun Running to Iraqi Insurgents
Independent (Malta)
15 February 2007
Italian authorities yesterday announced they had interrupted an international arms trafficking deal that was to have operated between China, Malta, Italy and Libya, and which planned to supply hundreds of thousands of weapons to Iraqi insurgents, international media reported yesterday. The operation was to have seen an unnamed Maltese company acting as a middleman between Chinese weapons producers and Libyan buyers, who would, in... ( gunpolicy.org )
Sudan
Sudan Child Soldiers Struggle to Give Up Guns, Then Back to War, Says UN
Reuters
8 February 2007
UNITED NATIONS -- Former child soldiers in southern Sudan are failing to settle back into their communities and instead are picking up guns to fight again, a U.N. official said on Thursday. Radhika Coomaraswamy of Sri Lanka, the special envoy for children and armed conflict, visited Sudan late last month. "We were seeing the phenomenon of children not being re-integrated fully into their communities and actually coming... ( gunpolicy.org )
Ireland, United States, Libya
Book 'Blows Lid' on Trade Secrets of IRA Gun Running from USA, Libya
Sunday Independent (Ireland), Book review
21 January 2007
Gunrunners, by Sean Boyne. O'Brien, 19.95 'GOD made the Catholics, but the Armalite made them equal' was the writing once scrawled on a wall in Derry's Bogside. But where did the Armalite come from? In the early years of the Northern Ireland conflict, the IRA guns mainly came from the USA, through smuggling operations organised by Irish-American republican sympathisers. The Armalites, we are assured by General... ( gunpolicy.org )
Egypt, Israel, Palestine, United States
Egypt, Israel, US Approve and Ship 2,000 More Guns to Palestine's Fatah
Agence France Presse
28 December 2006
Egypt has sent a large quantity of arms to the forces of moderate Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas's Fatah party with the help of Israel, an Israeli official said. "In coordination with Israel, Egypt delivered a large quantity of guns and munitions to the Abbas forces," the official told AFP, asking to remain anonymous. The Haaretz daily meanwhile reported that "a load of 2,000 Kalashnikov AK-47 assault rifles as well... ( gunpolicy.org )
Kenya, Uganda, Sudan
Great Lakes Leaders Agree to Seize Guns from Nomadic Pastoralists
Nation (Nairobi)
15 December 2006
NAIROBI -- A new regional security agreement unveiled yesterday proposes the disarmament of nomadic pastoralists in Kenya, Uganda and Sudan. The programme, targeting the entire Great Lakes Region, proposes a joint security management of common borders to oversee activities in 12 border zones identified by member States. The programme was unveiled at the ongoing second summit of the International Conference on the Great... ( gunpolicy.org )
Kenya, Sudan
Kenyan Police Seize AK-47s, Handguns from Sudanese VP's Nairobi Home
East African Standard (Nairobi)
16 September 2006
NAIROBI -- Police yesterday raided the Nairobi home of Sudanese deputy Vice-President, Dr Riek Machar, and confiscated seven guns and bullets. The officers also arrested Machar's son and a cousin. The officers found five AK-47 riffles, two pistols and 170 bullets in the four bed-roomed house in Kileleshwa. Also seized were communication gadgets, which police said were illegal. The raid was prompted by... ( gunpolicy.org )
Sudan
Fierce Resistance to Gun Seizure, Fragile Disarmament in Southern Sudan
Sudan Tribune / IRIN (UN News)
3 August 2006
MALAKAL -- Every year, during the dry season, armed youth -- the so-called White Army -- from communities in Ayod (Gawaar Nuer) Uror, Nyirol (Lou Nuer) and Duk (Dinka) counties take their cattle to the water-rich west of Jonglei State in southern Sudan. Local sources estimate that between 6,000 and 9,000 armed Lou Nuer youth travel through Dinka and Gawaar Nuer lands each year. Such seasonal migrations were peaceful 30 years ago... ( gunpolicy.org )
India, Egypt
India Joins Global Bid to Build New Gun Factory in Egypt
Daily News & Analysis (India)
16 July 2006
NEW DELHI -- India is bidding for a global tender to establish a small-arms manufacturing unit in Egypt. "India is bidding for the Egyptian contract on the strength of its indigenously developed high-tech Excalibre rifle which is the improved version of the 5.56 INSAS rifle already being used by the Indian armed forces," Ordnance Factory Board Chairman P K Mishra said in an interview to Doordarshan News in it's programme, 'War and... ( gunpolicy.org )
Sudan, China
Chinese Arms in Darfur: The Gun Runners' Twisted Trail to Africa
Reuters
19 June 2006
KHARTOUM -- In a rebel camp along the barren, windswept border between Sudan and Chad, dozens of trucks packed with dreadlocked fighters manning heavy machine guns are lined up. Piled up behind them are ammunition boxes, covered in Chinese symbols -- it's impossible to know exactly where the bullets in the boxes came from but they offer a glimpse of the complex and circuitous routes of the global arms trade. United Nations... ( gunpolicy.org )
Egypt
Egyptian Human Rights Council Warns of Spreading Danger of Small Arms
MENA
3 June 2006
CAIRO -- The Egyptian National Human Rights Council (NHRC) on Saturday warned of the danger of spreading small arms to human rights, especially the right to life in unstable societies. NHRC Secretary General Ambassador Mokhles Kotb, in his speech at a workshop on the spread of small arms, noted that women and children were usually the prime victims of the proliferation of such weapons. He underlined the importance of not... ( gunpolicy.org )
Lebanon, Palestine, Sudan
Young Middle East Arabs Want Stricter Gun Control, Study Finds
Reuters / IRIN
1 March 2006
BEIRUT -- Young Lebanese, Palestinians and Sudanese want tougher gun control regulations, a survey by a group of NGOs revealed. The findings of the study, which was conducted over the last six months by the Middle East North Africa Network on Small Arms (MENSAA), an umbrella group of Arab NGOs concerned with the misuse and proliferation of illicit small arms and light weapons, were released on Tuesday in Beirut. "Each of... ( gunpolicy.org )
Palestine, Israel, Egypt
Booming Business in Gaza: Tunnelling for the Gunrunners
New York Times
24 January 2006
RAFAH, Gaza Strip -- Yasser Qishta, 25, shows a visitor into his near-finished house, a two-story cinderblock structure with a pristine, pastel interior, all new paint and gleaming ceramic tile. The house cost him $32,000, a fortune for a man of his age in the Gaza Strip's troubled economy. The house tells everyone in the neighborhood what he has been up to: burrowing beneath the border to help bring illegal arms into the Gaza Strip.... ( gunpolicy.org )
United Nations, United States, Iran, Israel, Egypt, China, Syria, India, Pakistan, Trinidad & Tobago
Traditional Foes Hold Up UN Progress on Small Arms
Trinidad and Tobago's Newsday
22 January 2006
NEW YORK -- After two weeks of talking, governments have achieved virtually no outcome from a UN conference on controlling the proliferation and misuse of small arms. During this time, approximately 12,000 more people have died at gunpoint and many more have been injured, bereaved or denied access to livelihoods, healthcare and education because of armed violence. Usually at loggerheads on disarmament issues, the USA and Iran, Israel... ( gunpolicy.org )
Sudan
Guns Flow in to Sudan's Darfur Despite Embargo: UN
Reuters
10 January 2006
Weapons are flowing to anti-government rebels in Sudan's strife-torn Darfur region from neighboring Chad, Eritrea and Libya in violation of a U.N. arms embargo, U.N. experts said in a report obtained by Reuters on Tuesday. The embargo, imposed on all non-government forces in Darfur in July 2004, has also failed to prevent the government from arming the Arab militias that act as its proxy fighters in the Darfur conflict, the experts... ( gunpolicy.org )
Sudan
NGOs Urge Action Against Illicit Arms in South
BBC Monitoring Middle East / Sudan Radio Service, Transcript
28 November 2005
[Presenter] Civil society organizations in Southern Sudan are calling on the government to control the proliferation of illegal fire arms. The group said there is need to raise a lot of awareness among Sudanese because small arms cause insecurity in the region. During a workshop on small arms in Nairobi, Kenya, last week, participants urged the government to empower people economically so that they do not resort to holding... ( gunpolicy.org )
Germany, Middle East, North Africa
Arab League, Germany Sign Agreement on Small Arms Control
MENA
10 October 2005
CAIRO -- The Arab League and Germany signed here Monday an agreement on small arms and light weapons control in the Arab world. As per the agreement, a special sum of money would be granted to the league by Germany for holding the first Arab meeting on small arms and light weapons in the Arab nation. The agreement was co-signed by Arab League Assistanct Secretary General for Financial and Administrative Affairs, Ambassador... ( gunpolicy.org )
Germany, Middle East, North Africa
Arab League, Germany Sign Agreement on Small Arms Control
Xinhua
10 October 2005
CAIRO -- The Arab League and Germany signed here on Monday an agreement on small arms and light weapons control in the Arab world, Egypt's official MENA news agency reported. Under the agreement, Germany will provide money to the league for holding the first Arab meeting on small arms and light weapons control among Arab countries, according to the report. The agreement was signed by AL assistant secretary general for financial... ( gunpolicy.org )
Morocco
Morocco Adopts UN Transnational Crime Firearm Protocol [Francais]
Aujourd'hui Le Maroc
27 July 2005
Le dernier Conseil de gouvernement a adopté le protocole additionnel complétant la convention des Nations unies contre la criminalité transfrontalière organisée. Ledit protocole porte sur le trafic illicite des armes. Le Maroc rejoint les pays de la communauté internationale qui ont décidé de sévir contre le trafic illicite des armes à feu. La décision a été prise jeudi dernier lors du Conseil de gouvernement qui... ( gunpolicy.org )
Israel, Egypt
Smuggling Guns Over the Egypt-Israel Border
Jerusalem Post (Israel)
3 June 2005
In the middle of the night, Israeli troops sneaked over the border fence amid the granite mountains, moving silently so the Egyptian guards would not hear. They somehow quietly lifted a mammoth cement border marker that weighs as much as those ancient stone relics at Stonehenge and moved it westward. Why? As part of the Zionist state's expansionist, underhanded effort to steal more Egyptian land. This may sound far-fetched and paranoid,... ( gunpolicy.org )
Israel, Egypt
Border Guards Intercept Gun-Runners and 21 Kalashnikovs
Israel National News
2 February 2005
Border Guard and IDF units succeeded in preventing Arab terrorists from smuggling 21 Kalachnikov rifles over the Egypt-Israel border. The interception took place near Har Sagi. Border guard lookouts spotted four individuals attempting to sneak across the border carrying large sacks. When the IDF and Border Guard units gave chase with the help of an air force helicopter, the gun-runners abandoned their load and fled. ... ( gunpolicy.org )
Sudan
Russian, Chinese Guns Fuel Sudan War: Amnesty Int'l
Independent (UK)
17 November 2004
The brutal ethnic war in Darfur is being fuelled by weapons supplied by companies from countries that are permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, a report claimed yesterday. The Security Council is trying to find a way to end the violence. The Chinese and Russian governments have been allowing the sale of military equipment to the Sudanese government, according to an Amnesty International report, which also repeated... ( gunpolicy.org )
Sudan
In Darfur, Guns Offer Do-it-yourself Security
Christian Science Monitor
16 November 2004
AL-FASHER, Sudan -- As the dawn's rays spread across this sand-strewn northern capital of Sudan's troubled Darfur region this weekend, the crack of gunfire rang out. But the shots weren't hostile. They were to celebrate Eid al-Fitr, the festival following the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Thirty days of fasting between sunrise and sunset is almost uniformly observed here; even water is not consumed during daylight hours, despite... ( gunpolicy.org )
Sudan, United Kingdom
Aid Was Flown to Sudan on Gunrunning Planes
Evening Standard (London)
25 August 2004
The British Government has been sending aid to Sudan and elsewhere in Africa on airlines accused by the UN of gunrunning. Yesterday, the Department for International Development (DfID) suspended all future contracts with Buraq Air, its main operator of relief flights to Sudan, and launched an inquiry after the Evening Standard told it about the firm's record. The DfID used Libya-based Buraq as recently as two weeks ago... ( gunpolicy.org )
Sudan, United Kingdom
Britain Brokered Gun Parts to Militias
Evening Standard (London)
24 August 2004
Britain has sent more than 180 tons of arms to war-torn Sudan in the last three years, according to the United Nations. The revelation, which will embarrass Foreign Secretary Jack Straw as he visits Darfur today, is contained in the official UN commodity trade database, Comtrade, which compiles information supplied by national customs services. During his visit to the Abu Shouk refugee camp, Mr Straw is expected to condemn... ( gunpolicy.org )
Sudan
More Guns Could Have Saved Sudan, Says Kopel
National Review (USA), Opinion
18 August 2004
[T]he sovereign territorial state claims, as an integral part of its sovereignty, the right to commit genocide, or engage in genocidal massacres, against peoples under its rule, and ... the United Nations, for all practical purposes, defends this right. To be sure, no state explicitly claims the right to commit genocide -- this would not be morally acceptable even in international circles -- but the right is exercised under other more acceptable... ( gunpolicy.org )
World, Afghanistan, Iraq, Sudan, Africa, Middle East
Stop the Guns Targeting Aid Workers
Globe & Mail (Toronto), Opinion
11 August 2004
The terrifying decline of humanitarian and security conditions in Iraq and Sudan is grabbing headlines. But for the humanitarian aid community, news from Afghanistan is worse. In July, five employees of Médecins sans frontières were ambushed and killed in the northwestern province of Badghis. These killings echoed the shooting deaths of five other Afghan aid workers near Kabul earlier this year on the eve of a visit by the U.S.... ( gunpolicy.org )
Sudan
UN Places Arms Embargo
Globe & Mail (Toronto)
31 July 2004
JOHANNESBURG -- There are 1.5 million desperate refugees in the Darfur region of western Sudan. At least 40,000 people have died of hunger, or in attacks by government forces and government-organized janjaweed militias. But yesterday, at the United Nations Security Council, the best world powers could do was pass a watered-down, U.S.-sponsored resolution threatening the Sudanese government with unspecified "measures" if it fails... ( gunpolicy.org )
Sudan
Rebels, Child Soldiers Disarm
New York Times
22 January 2004
TAM, Sudan -- Hope is gaining ground on the front lines of Africa's most expansive -- and exhaustive -- battlefield, where Sudanese have killed and maimed other Sudanese in an area the size of Europe for 20 long years. The new reality could be seen in this village west of the Nile the other day when a brigade of rebel soldiers arrived in formation, singing songs of liberation and clutching aging AK-47's. At their commander's... ( gunpolicy.org )
Egypt
Policeman in Egypt Kills His Superior Before Turning Gun on Himself
Associated Press
3 July 2002
CAIRO, Egypt -- A disgruntled policeman assigned to Cairo's diplomatic neighborhood killed his superior in an argument, then took his own life, police said Wednesday. Police officials said Gen. Yehia el-Jabri, the commander of Maadi police force, died Tuesday of multiple gunshot wounds. The upscale Maadi district, about 10 kilometers (6 miles) south of Cairo, is home to diplomats from more than a dozen countries, including... ( gunpolicy.org )
Sudan, Uganda
Karamojong Fighters Hand Over 3,000 Guns
Monitor (Kampala)
4 December 2001
More than 3,000 illegal guns were Sunday voluntarily handed over to government by the Karimojong community at the launch of the long awaited disarmament exercise of the region. The exercise was launched by President Yoweri Museveni at Moroto Boma ground, a statement from State House Sunday, said. It is being carried out simultaneously throughout the three districts of Moroto, Kotido and Nakapiripirit. The statement said... ( gunpolicy.org )
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