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Florquin, Nicolas, Sigrid Lipott and Francis Wairagu. 2019 ‘Excerpts on Illicit/Craft Production - Nigeria.’ Weapons Compass: Mapping Illicit Small Arms Flows in Africa, pp. 47-59. Geneva: Small Arms Survey, the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva. 1 January
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CAR reported the proliferation of Turkish-made semi-automatic shotguns and convertible blank-firing pistols manufactured between 2012 and 2016 on black markets or in the context of weapons seizures in northern Somalia, northern Niger, and northern/south-eastern Nigeria. The weapons observed in Somalia and Nigeria matched the specific types/models of weapons that were intercepted in 2017 as part of large illicit maritime shipments to each country. (pp. 47-49)
Map 5: Reported craft production of small arms – Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Cote d'Ivoire, DRC, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Zimbabwe. (p. 56)