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Mangan, Fiona and Matthias Nowak. 2019 ‘The Nature of Illicit Arms Trafficking in West Africa and the Sahel.’ The West Africa–Sahel Connection: Mapping Cross-Border Arms Trafficking, pp. 4-5. Geneva: Small Arms Survey, the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva. 1 December

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Other types of illicit weapons circulating in the region include craft-produced firearms and alarm or blank-firing weapons that are converted to fire live ammunition. Local gunsmiths produce small arms in most West African countries, including Côte d'Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Guinea, Mali, Niger, and Nigeria. In some cases the state authorizes and regulates this production, for example Sierra Leone. Estimating the number of weapons produced and entering the civilian market remains challenging, however, while record-keeping is limited[…]

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