East Africa: Region in Spotlight As Small Arms Talks Open in New York

Nairobi — As the UN review conference on small arms opens in New York on Monday, the Great Lakes region and the Horn of Africa will be in the spotlight in view of the thousands of guns still in wrong hands. But the region, through the Regional Centre on Small Arms, will be eager to demonstrate its efforts in sealing the loopholes through which the arms get into the countries illegally and to recover them.

Kenya in particular will be in special focus when Mr Julius Arile Lomerinyang presents the one-million-face petition to UN secretary-general Kofi Annan.

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