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Mangan, Fiona and Matthias Nowak. 2019 ‘Key Arms-Trafficking Routes and Flow Patterns - Guinea-Bissau.’ The West Africa–Sahel Connection: Mapping Cross-Border Arms Trafficking, p. 8. Geneva: Small Arms Survey, the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva. 1 December

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Fieldwork in Guinea-Bissau revealed that the country's major source of trafficked weapons has always been its own military arsenals, which have been historically well supplied as a result of the liberation war against Portugal (the colonial power) from 1963 to 1974 and the 1998–99 civil war.

In the 1990s significant flows of weapons were diverted from official stocks in Guinea-Bissau to separatists in the Casamance region in southern Senegal. This arms-trafficking flow has since largely stopped, however, because the Casamance conflict reduced in intensity and Senegal strongly pressured Bissau-Guinean elites to refrain from such trafficking.

A second lower-level flow of weapons—mostly shotguns—is trafficked by rural populations who use them to hunt or defend themselves and, occasionally, to engage in banditry. These weapons include craft-produced shotguns produced in either Guinea-Bissau or neighbouring countries. Major regional markets for craft-produced arms trafficked into Guinea-Bissau include Serekunda in Gambia and Diaobé in Senegal.

ID: Q14057

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