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**clomoll** · 03-25-2010, 11:59 PM

Women sit among the remains of their earthquake damaged homes in the Fort Nationale neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, on Wednesday. A 7.0-magnitude earthquake hit Haiti on Jan 12, killing and injuring thousands and leaving more than a million people living in makeshift camps. -- PHOTO: AP

Illegal fire arms are burnt in Nairobi, on Wednesday 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. -- PHOTO: AFP

A cyclist pedals past a bed of flowers along a walkway in downtown Phoenix, on Wednesday. -- PHOTO: AP

03-25-2010, 11:59 PM	#4
clomoll Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 420 Senior Member	Women sit among the remains of their earthquake damaged homes in the Fort Nationale neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, on Wednesday. A 7.0-magnitude earthquake hit Haiti on Jan 12, killing and injuring thousands and leaving more than a million people living in makeshift camps. -- PHOTO: AP Illegal fire arms are burnt in Nairobi, on Wednesday 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. -- PHOTO: AFP A cyclist pedals past a bed of flowers along a walkway in downtown Phoenix, on Wednesday. -- PHOTO: AP
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