Gun Policy News
Cooperation Needed Among East African Nations to Curb Illegal Gun Trade
19 March 2007
New Vision (Kampala), Editorial
KAMPALA — Are they 200,000 or 400,000? The number of small arms in circulation in Uganda might be debatable. What is not debatable, however, is that the proliferation of small arms in the hands of unauthorised people is a huge problem in Uganda and the whole region.
Security sources cite the number of illegal arms in Karamoja at 40,000. That alone is a major threat. Weapons continue to flow in from South Sudan, Kenya and the Democratic Republic of Congo, turning... (GunPolicy.org)