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Disarmament – 2004

No exact figure is available on the number of combatants disarmed. However, it was reported that 100 weapons were destroyed each on 5 March and 24 August 2004 in Agadez.¹ The UNDP project designed to encourage disarmament was terminated in 2004 as scheduled. It was expected to collect 5000 weapons from July 2001 to August 2004. Whether this target was met or not is not clear.

1. Florquin, N. and E.G. Berman, eds.,”Armed and Aimless: Armed Groups, Guns, and Human Security in the ECOWAS Region,” 321.