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February27

Country	Topic	Source
Africa	AU Summit: President Ramaphosa outlines progress to project of silencing guns	Devdiscourse
Africa	Sahel Security 2023: Arms Trafficking Forecast	Grey Dynamics
Nigeria	Nigerian Terrorists Hold 1% Of All Firearms In West Africa, Says Gun Control Body	HumAngle
Nigeria	More than 10,000 small arms, light weapons recovered from non-state actors – NCCSALW	Daily Post Nigeria
Somalia	An Ocean of Weapons: Arms Smuggling to Somalia	allAfrica.com
Trinidad	Trinidad to host regional symposium on crime	Caribbean National Weekly - CNW Network
United States	U.S. Guns Are Fueling Violence in Central America, Here’s How to Help Stop the Arms Flow	Just Security
United States	New Biden arms sale policy puts human rights abusers on notice	Responsible Statecraft
United States	Memorandum on United States Conventional Arms Transfer Policy	The White House
United States	Advocates Deman Oversight and Accountability For U.S. Arms Trade	The Intercept

February15

Country	Topic	Source
Africa	Firearms trafficking in the Sahel	ReliefWeb - Informing humanitarians worldwide
Africa	The Horn Of Africa States: Arms Smuggling – OpEd	Eurasia Review – A Journal of Analysis and News
Africa	ECOWAS mobilizes to improve the implementation of the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT)	Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)
Australia	Australian War Memorial accepted more than $830,000 from arms manufacturers in three years	The Guardian
DRC	When will the guns in eastern DRC be silenced?	The Citizen
Europe	Arms exports and human rights	Social Europe
Grenada	PM says Grenada under threat from the illegal importation of guns	Caribbean National Weekly - CNW Network
Jamaica	More than 150 people charged under new firearms legislation	Jamaica Star
Jamaica	Four-year sentence handed down under new firearms law	Jamaica Gleaner
Liberia	Liberia Lauded for Leadership in Fighting Illicit Arms Trade in West Africa	FrontPageAfrica – Liberia's Leading News Magazine
Russian Federation	Russia’s growing trade in arms, oil and African politics	Financial Times
United Kingdom	UK gov’t facing High Court battle over arms sales to Saudi Arabia ">	ABC News
United Kingdom	Campaigners join protests outside High Court over UK arm sales	Liverpool Echo
United Kingdom	Why the UK should stop arming Saudi Arabia	Action on Armed Violence - AOAV
United Kingdom	The £1bn deals between the UK Universities and the arms trade reviewed	Action on Armed Violence - AOAV

February7

Country	Topic	Source
Africa	Arms trade is a 'plague,' pope says on flight back from Africa	US Conference of Catholic Bishops
Africa	Armed drone makes a huge impact in Africa	Home | Times Aerospace
Bahamas	Firearms task force ‘to create safer Bahamas’	The Tribune
Central America	U.S. Guns Are Fueling Violence in Central America, Here’s How to Help Stop the Arms Flow	Just Security
Germany	Ukraine conflict: German Patriots in Poland reach IOC	Janes | The trusted source for defence and security intelligence
India	India to boost defense spending by 13%, with billions for new weapons	Defense News
Iran	Iran reveals bizarre new AI-powered miniature tank robots	The Jerusalem Post
Israël	Israël pourrait se décider à apporter un soutien militaire à l'Ukraine	Les Echos
Jamaica	Police seize 54 guns, 101 rounds of ammunition at Freeport	Jamaican News Online
Moldova	Moldova’s PM calls for more EU help to curb Ukraine war smuggling	Financial Times
Somalia	Somalia: An Ocean of Weapons	Home - allAfrica.com
Switzerland	Analysis: Swiss neutrality on the line as arms-for-Ukraine debate heats up	Reuters
Togo	Les armes de guerre circulent en quantité	Home - République Togolaise
Turquie	La Turquie vendeur d’armes majeur en Afrique	Mondafrique Accueil - Mondafrique
United Kingdom	Sunak says he's focused on sending UK weapons to Ukraine as quickly as possible.	Yahoo News
United Kingdom	UK police removing ‘large amount’ of online gun-making guides	The Guardian
United States	Export Controls: State Needs to Improve Compliance Data to Enhance Oversight of Defense Services	U.S. Government Accountability Office (U.S. GAO)
United States	US to deliver additional armoured vehicles and weapons to Ukraine	Army Technology
United States	Who’s sending what to Ukraine: A new wave of Western weapons explained	The Washington Post
United States	U.S. armored vehicles reach UK on their way to Ukraine	TVP World
United States	A US weapons maker is offering Ukraine a pair of deadly combat drones for $1, 'no strings attached,' but it's not that simple	MSN/a>
United States	Why Biden Doesn’t Want to Give Ukraine the Fighter Planes Zelensky Is Asking For	Slate Magazine
Vietnam	Over 600 US-made weapons destroyed	Phnom Penh Post
Yemen	Western allies seize Iran arms shipment bound for Yemen's rebels	France24