The Bahir Dar City police in Amhara Region of Ethiopia have confiscated 498 pistols hidden in the house of a police commander. It is recalled that over the past few months several thousands of pistols, mainly made in Turkey have been confiscated in different parts of Ethiopia. The annual value of small arms and ammunition imports to Ethiopia is reported by Customs to be $710,192. Civilian firearms registration data was available for 133 countries and territories, according to small arms survey of 2017. The new figure is 32 per cent higher than the previous estimate from 2006, when the Small Arms Survey estimated there were approximately 650 million civilian-held firearms.

Source: News Business Ethiopia January 02, 2019 09:00 UTC