Firearm News
Kenya Witnesses 18 Car-jackings in Past Week
21 March 1999
Xinhua
NAIROBI — Eighteen passenger commuter vehicles have been targets for violent robberies and car-jackings in various parts of Kenya over the past week, police have reported.
The robberies were committed by thugs armed with various weapons including AK-47 and sub-machine guns, pistols and revolvers, the Sunday Standard newspaper reported.
A wanted car-jacker was killed in a fierce shoot-out with police Friday night following a car-jacking, robbery and rape on capital... (GunPolicy.org)
MPS End Gun Debate With a Punch-up
30 July 1998
Africa News Service
NAIROBI — Parliament erupted in fury as MPs held a 10-minute fist- fight in the debating Chamber yesterday — just moments after they voted by a whisker not to give themselves guns.
People watched in dismay from the public gallery as the House de generated into a free-for-all brawl between Kanu and Opposition MPs.
Parliamentary orderlies, and the Serjeant-at-Arms and his team struggled to separate the fighting MPs as the Deputy Speaker, Mr Joab Omino, tried in vain... (GunPolicy.org)