Open Markets: Documenting Arms Availability in Afghanistan under the Taliban More than three years after the Taliban’s takeover and its seizure of the previous regime’s weapons stockpiles, the de facto authorities have taken steps to exert control over arms and ammunition in…

As of early 2025, NATO-pattern weapons continued to be available in informal markets in #Afghanistan and #Pakistan according to our #BriefingPaper based on almost three years of field investigations. Read more here: www.smallarmssurvey.org/resource/ope...

On The Brink: The Politics of Violence in South Sudan South Sudan is once again on the brink of war. The regime of South Sudanese President Salva Kiir is bombing civilians and detaining the opposition, while foreign embassies close and evacuate staff.…

The system created by Kiir’s mode of rule prevented the electoral process and blocked the Tumaini Peace Initiative. As our #BriefingPaper from 2025 discusses, the price of this unchecked power is civil war in #SouthSudan. Read more here: www.smallarmssurvey.org/resource/bri...

#Sudan is in the grip of a catastrophic humanitarian and political crisis. Our HSBA #BriefingPaper is the first to analyze the inner workings of the Rapid Support Forces that are fighting to control the country: bit.ly/3SxX3aR

Open Markets: Documenting Arms Availability in Afghanistan under the Taliban More than three years after the Taliban’s takeover and its seizure of the previous regime’s weapons stockpiles, the de facto authorities have taken steps to exert control over arms and ammunition in the hands of rank-and-file fighters, civilians, and private businesses. Yet despite the recent legal restrictions and their enforcement efforts, informal arms commerce and trafficking continue, and involves both older weapons as well as materiel likely sourced from the equipment that had been delivered to the former Afghan National Defence and Security Forces.

NATO-pattern weapons continue to be available in informal markets in #Afghanistan and #Pakistan according to our recent #BriefingPaper based on almost three years of field investigations.
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National Action Plans as Tools for Effective Small Arms Control: Lessons from West Africa Guidance provided at the Fourth Review Conference of the UN Programme of Action on Small Arms and Light Weapons in June 2024 underscored the importance of aligning national action plans (NAPs) with su...

How critical are #NAPs on #SALW in #WestAfrica? Our latest #BriefingPaper unpacks the current practice, impact, and potential to small arms control into broader public policy frameworks that address #development and security concerns: www.smallarmssurvey.org/resource/nat...

On The Brink: The Politics of Violence in South Sudan South Sudan is once again on the brink of war. The regime of South Sudanese President Salva Kiir is bombing civilians and detaining the opposition, while foreign embassies close and evacuate staff. Th...

#SouthSudan is on the cusp of civil war. Kiir’s plans for succession are at risk and among those jockeying for power, there is likely no one able to command the assent of the country’s elite. Our new #BriefingPaper examines what led to this crisis: www.smallarmssurvey.org/resource/bri...

Open Markets: Documenting Arms Availability in Afghanistan under the Taliban More than three years after the Taliban’s takeover and its seizure of the previous regime’s weapons stockpiles, the de facto authorities have taken steps to exert control over arms and ammunition in t...

Recent #Taliban efforts to tighten controls on arms and ammunition have not affected the types of weapons available in informal markets in #Afghanistan, our new #BriefingPaper finds, based on almost three years of field investigations.
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The Republic of Kadamol: A Portrait of the Rapid Support Forces at War After almost two years of war, Sudan is in the grip of a humanitarian and political catastrophe. A conflict between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) continues to devastate the coun...

Published today our new HSBA #BriefingPaper analyses the state of the #RSF after 19 months of war in #Sudan, its political economy, and the fragmentation of its command-and-control structure: www.smallarmssurvey.org/resource/rep...

Broken Ambitions: The Global Struggle to Halve Violent Deaths by 2030 Just over a quarter of the world’s countries and territories are currently on track to meet the targets of Sustainable Development Goal 16.1. As demonstrated in our 2021 update to the Global Violent D...

The G5 #Sahel region experiences notably higher levels of lethal violence compared to Northern Africa, and increasing conflict-related fatalities since 2016. Read more in our #SANA #BriefingPaper on global violent deaths here: www.smallarmssurvey.org/resource/bro...