Burkina Faso, CAR, the DRC, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Ethiopia and Kenya participated in the AU’s Africa Amnesty Month in September.
Seven African countries are currently completing efforts to collect illegally held weapons as part of a continent-wide annual amnesty period.
This follows four months of activities that started in September 2020 under the umbrella of the ‘Africa Amnesty Month’ which is an African Union (AU) initiative that seeks to protect the continent from the ravages of illicit small arms and light weapons.
Declared in 2017, Africa Amnesty Month falls every September. During the month people are encouraged and allowed to voluntarily hand over illegally held small arms under the conditions of anonymity and immunity from legal prosecution.
