Northern Kenya faces growing disarmament dilemma
Disarmament: More guns mean more attacks — but communities see small arms as vital for their protection against bandits.
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Disarmament: More guns mean more attacks — but communities see small arms as vital for their protection against bandits.
RECSA coordinates the implementation on prevention and control of weapons.
<p>The National Police Service (NPS) has already marked 98 per cent of its firearms stock while the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) is at 70 per cent in the process.<br></p>
Rather than relying on foreign navies, Horn of Africa countries must lead in stemming illicit arms inflows.
Security experts on Monday called for stronger regional cooperation in the fight against the proliferation of small arms. Badreldin Elamin Abdelgadir, executive secretary of the Regional Center on Small Arms (RECSA), told a forum in Nairobi, Kenya's capital, that governments have enhanced surveillance among common borders to detect smuggling of…