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Race to Smuggle, Buy Assault Weapons as Kenya Pastoralists Re-arm
20 December 2009
Daily Nation (Nairobi)
NAIROBI, Kenya — The demand for automatic weapons in Turkana, Samburu and Pokot has created a huge market and this could explain the recent arms seizures in the country.
Fuelled by persistent droughts, the arms race among the pastoral communities in Northern Kenya has intensified in the last decade with almost 95 per cent of households said to own a firearm.
A two-decade study of the three communities says that by the early 1990s, most households had a... (GunPolicy.org)