Illegal fire arms are burnt in Nairobi,

Illegal fire arms are burnt in Nairobi, March 24, 2010 as part of a campaign by the Kenyan government to mop-up illicit small arms and light weapons that are at the centre of increasing violent crime in Kenya and Africa. In Africa and elsewhere, the illicit trade in small arms and light weapons is opaque, amorphous and dynamic and a global enterprise, put at some 1 billion US dollars, or 10-20% of the global trade, with illicit weapons across Africa coming from virtually every major arms producing country in the world, according to Arms sales and Arms management monitoring programmes in the US and South Africa. AFP PHOTO/Tony KARUMBA (Photo credit should read TONY KARUMBA/AFP via Getty Images)