Kenya: Country Extends Amnesty on Illegal Arms

20 January 2010

Nairobi — The Kenya Government is preparing to forcefully disarm pastoralists who will have not have surrendered illegal guns in a month.

The exercise would have started sooner but MPs representing pastoral communities pleaded for an extension of a government amnesty that expires Wednesday.

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