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Original Post Date: 2010-11-29 Time: 14:00:06 Posted By: News Poster
Arusha – The East African Community (EAC) will tomorrow receive vehicles with special arms-marking equipment.
They have been procured in order to speed up the small arms marking exercise in the five partner states, according to the EAC secretariat official.
The handing over will take place at the Arusha International Conference Centre (AICC) alongside a demonstration of the arms-marking exercise.
EAC deputy secretary general (Political Federation), Ms Beatrice Kiraso, said the equipment would help to meet the envisaged deadline of December, 2011, set by the Council of Ministers, to complete the exercise in the partner states.
The equipment, worth Euros 370,000, equivalent to over Sh740 million, has been purchased with support from the European Union (EU).
The EAC small arms and light weapons expert, Mr Leonard Onyonyi, said ministers responsible for defence, security and Internal Affairs, among others, from member states, will attend the handing over ceremony. The EU representative to Tanzania, Mr Tim Clarke, is also expected to grace the function.
Proliferation of small arms and light weapons is one of the biggest security challenges currently facing the EAC countries, as well as the Horn of Africa and the Great Lakes region.
“The trafficking and wide availability of these weapons fuel instability, conflict and pose a threat, not only to security, but also to sustainable development,” he said.
The widespread proliferation of small arms is contributing to alarming levels of armed crime, in both rural and urban areas,” noted Mr Modeste Mwauzi, a small arms expert from Tanzania.
It is estimated that between 500,000 and one million illegal small arms and light weapons are in circulation in East Africa. Some 300,000 to half a million people around the world are killed each year by small arms and light weapons. They are considered to be the major cause of civil casualties in modern conflicts.
Original date published: 29 November 2010
Source: http://allafrica.com/stories/201011291127.html?viewall=1