Illicit gun trade barrels ahead in Mogadishu

Nairobi (KON) - Weapons still being bought and sold illegally in the Somali capital, despite government efforts to close down the trade.

Editorial Keydmedia Online
13 February 2013

The car barely came to a stop when a hand softly knocked at the tinted passenger seat window. The window rolled down, revealing a tall, skinny figure wearing a half-buttoned, baggy polyester shirt, a red sarong, and pink sandals - and holding a rusty AK-47 in his left hand.

"Seven-hundred fifty dollars," he said in a firm voice, barely making eye contact, before dropping the fully loaded gun onto this reporter