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Somalia,Mozambique,Tanzania,Kenya,East Africa
Small Arms Proliferation in East Africa Fueling Conflicts and Instability - Opinion
23 February 2012
Pambazuka News (Africa), Opinion
A proliferation of small arms is fueling conflict and instability in East Africa. The ongoing pre-election violence in Kenya and the 'war on terror' will deter domestic and international investors, business people and economists say. These fears are valid given that illicit weapons are said to be hidden in parts of Kenya, especially in the Rift Valley Province.
On 9 December 2009 and on 2 February 2010, thousands of bullets, army uniforms, thousands of litres of fuel,... (GunPolicy.org)
Read More: Pambazuka News (Africa)
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Italy,Philippines,United States,Russia,Germany,Czech Republic,China,Botswana,Oceania,Americas,Africa,Asia,Europe,Central Africa,Caribbean,South America,Central America,Zimbabwe,Namibia,Mozambique,Congo (DRC),Angola,Swaziland,South Africa,Southern Africa
High Gun Death Risk for Young African Men, Women at Home - UN Study
19 February 2012
Southern Times (Southern Africa)
WINDHOEK - Young men in Southern Africa are at the greatest risk of cold-blooded murder, while women in the region are more likely than others from around the world to be killed in domestic violence, a UN agency says.
The statistics from the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) come as the region battles to contain the proliferation of gun-related crimes.
Experts have said gun-related crime is a major problem in South Africa and Swaziland, and is on the rise in... (GunPolicy.org)
Read More: Southern Times (Southern Africa)
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Russia,Mozambique,Nigeria,India,Australia,East Africa,Eastern Europe,Oceania,Europe,Asia,Americas,Africa
Global: Unplanned Explosions at Munitions Dumps Increasing - IRIN / SAS
5 December 2011
IRIN (UN News)
JOHANNESBURG - The rate of accidents at munitions storage sites has risen to unprecedented levels in 2011, despite a growing international commitment to assist countries in managing their weapons and ammunition stockpiles.
"During the first ten months of 2011, the average number of explosions has increased to more than three per month - the highest rate recorded in a calendar year," said the Small Arms Survey (SAS), a Geneva-based NGO monitoring small arms and armed... (GunPolicy.org)
Read More: IRIN (UN News)
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Sri Lanka,Sudan,Malawi,Zambia,Mozambique,Macedonia,Liberia,Sierra Leone,West Africa,Africa,South Africa
Africa: Analysis: How Best to Remove Guns from Post-conflict Zones?
28 July 2011
IRIN (UN News)
JOHANNESBURG - Cash for guns or buy-back programmes in post-conflict states have fallen out of favour as a method of ridding a society of weapons, and have been replaced by often elaborate schemes designed to remove money from the equation, but the debate continues as to the best way forward.
The disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) community has grappled for years with buy-back practices and acknowledges they can have a profound effect on the nature of... (GunPolicy.org)
Read More: IRIN (UN News)
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Mozambique
Mozambique Police Sergeant Detained for Hiring AK-47, Pistol to Criminals
13 December 2010
Mozambique News Agency
MAPUTO — A Mozambican police sergeant in the central city of Chimoio was arrested on Friday and charged with hiring out police guns and uniforms to a gang of ten criminals who carried out armed robberies in Chimoio and in the districts of Barue, Guro and Gondola.
The sergeant is Manuel Tinga, who has been in the police force for about 17 years. After his arrest he told Radio Mozambique that he took to hiring equipment to criminals as "an act of despair" in order to... (GunPolicy.org)
Read More: Mozambique News Agency
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Mozambique
Mozambique Churches Collected, Destroyed 700,000 Guns Since 1995
26 January 2010
Agencia de Informacao de Mocambique (Maputo)
MAPUTO — Under its project "Transforming Guns into Hoes" (TAE), the Christian Council of Mozambique (CCM), the umbrella body for the mainstream protestant churches in the country, has, since 1995, collected and destroyed 700,000 guns held illegally, according to the CCM general secretary, Marcos Macamo, interviewed in Tuesday's issue of the independent daily "O Pais".
TAE involves offering people holding illegal weapons useful implements (such as sewing machines or... (GunPolicy.org)
Read More: Agencia de Informacao de Mocambique (Maputo)
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Mozambique
Mozambique Police Arrested for Renting Guns to Armed Robbers
3 January 2009
Agencia de Informacao de Mocambique
MAPUTO — Five policemen from the Maputo City Police Command have been arrested on charges of extortion and of supplying firearms to gangs of criminals, according to the Maputo director of the Criminal Investigation Police (PIC), Dias Balate.
One of those detained is a PIC officer, Balate said. This man used to hire out police guns to criminals, and was paid with a share in the proceeds from armed robberies.
"We found him out because of our work to locate and... (GunPolicy.org)
Read More: Agencia de Informacao de Mocambique
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South Africa,Mozambique
Routine Destruction of Guns Curbs Weapon Trafficking in Southern Africa
21 October 2008
Times (Johannesburg)
About 180km north of Maputo, near the lagoon lodges of Bilene, lies Mozambique's most expensive 8m-deep crater.
Mangled bits of gun barrels and shrapnel strewn about the periphery hint at the explosive end of three weeks of hard slog in searing heat in the South African and Mozambican police's joint Operation Rachel.
Within milliseconds, four tonnes of commercial explosives rip through weapons that left thousands killed and maimed during the Felimo-Renamo civil war,... (GunPolicy.org)
Read More: Times (Johannesburg)
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Zimbabwe,China,South Africa,United States,Mozambique,Angola,Namibia
China Says Ship Carrying Ammunition, Guns to Zimbabwe May Head Home
22 April 2008
Associated Press
HARARE, Zimbabwe — A shipment of weapons to Zimbabwe may be returned to China, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said Tuesday, after the troubled southern African nation's neighbors prevented the cargo from being unloaded.
The Chinese freighter arrived in South Africa last week, and human rights groups and others said they feared the mortar grenades and bullets onboard could be used by President Robert Mugabe's regime to clamp down on its opposition.
Zimbabwean church... (GunPolicy.org)
Read More: Associated Press
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Zimbabwe,China,South Africa,United States,Mozambique,Angola,Namibia
Gun Cargo Rejection 'Dramatic Turn' for Africa's Embrace of Zimbabwe
22 April 2008
Washington Post
JOHANNESBURG — A Chinese ship carrying weapons and ammunition for Zimbabwe's military may be headed back home, reports said, after repeated attempts to deliver its cargo were frustrated by a coalition of legal activists, union workers and human rights groups.
The region's resistance to the shipment, which drew praise from the United States on Tuesday, marks a dramatic turn from southern Africa's traditional embrace of Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe and its... (GunPolicy.org)
Read More: Washington Post
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Zimbabwe,China,South Africa,Mozambique,Angola,Namibia,Zambia
Chinese Ammunition 'Ship of Shame' Adrift in Southern African Controversy
22 April 2008
IRIN (UN News)
JOHANNESBURG — There were conflicting reports about the whereabouts of a Chinese ship, laden with a cargo of small arms destined for Zimbabwe, after it was turned away from South Africa's port city of Durban.
According to some reports, the 150-metre multipurpose cargo vessel, the An Yue Jiang - registered in China and one of 600 vessels owned by the China Ocean Shipping Company (COSCO), dubbed by South African media as the "Ship of Shame" — is now en route to the... (GunPolicy.org)
Read More: IRIN (UN News)
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United States,Zimbabwe,South Africa,Mozambique,Zambia,Angola,China
Southern African Ports Shun Ship Carrying Guns to Zimbabwe; US Agrees
22 April 2008
Los Angeles Times / Chicago Tribune
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Public outcries have forced a rusty Chinese cargo ship to avoid South Africa, Mozambique and Angola, leaving it at sea Tuesday with 77 tons of munitions bound for Zimbabwe, where an election crisis has reportedly turned violent.
The An Yue Jiang was carrying about 3 million rounds of Chinese ammunition, 1,500 rockets and 3,000 mortar shells. The State Department's top Africa envoy, who is to arrive in the region today, will urge... (GunPolicy.org)
Read More: Los Angeles Times / Chicago Tribune
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United States,Zimbabwe,Mozambique,Namibia,Angola,South Africa,China
US Seeks to Block Zimbabwe-bound Chinese Ammunition, Gun Shipment
22 April 2008
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration is intervening with governments in southern Africa to prevent a Chinese ship carrying weapons for Zimbabwe's security forces from unloading its cargo, The Associated Press has learned.
At the same time, the State Department's top Africa hand, Jendayi Frazer, plans to visit the region this week to underscore U.S. concerns about the shipment. Frazer also will try to persuade Zimbabwe's neighbors to step up pressure on President... (GunPolicy.org)
Read More: Associated Press
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