Rwanda: Call for Firearms Marking to Fight Illicit Trafficking

The Minister of Internal Security and Chairman of the Regional Centre on Small Arms, Sheikh Musa Fazil Harerimana, has called for firearms to be marked and recorded as means of fighting illicit arms trafficking.

Harerimana made the remarks as he opened a two-day trans-regional seminar on arms making guidelines for the Economic Community of Central Africa States (Eccas) in Kigali. The meeting, according to the minister, is an opportunity to harmonise efforts and share experience to track and fight the related crimes. "One region can never win the battle against proliferation of illicit small arms and light weapons unless it cooperates with other countries due to the trans-border nature of this crime," he said.

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