10 African countries you probably didn’t know produce their own weapons

Kenya

With assistance from FN Herstal of Belgium (1996), Kenya has the domestic capacity to produce small arms and ammunition, the report by globalpolicy.org said, citing a bullet factory which then had a capacity 20,000-60,000 bullets per day while local consumption was about two million bullets per year.

“The factory produces three types of bullets, namely, 9mm ammunition for the FN35 Browning pistol and the Sterling, Uzi or H&K MP5 submachine guns used by the armed forces; 7.62x51mm for the FNFAL and the G3, the main rifles used by the armed forces; and 5.56mm ammunition, used by the Kenya police,” the report said, adding that Kenya had then refused to open its factories for independent verification of their facilities despite ratifying the UN Arms Trade Treaty. The bullet factory, meanwhile, in 2013/2014 made some losses as it sunk into debts. In 2016, it was reported that Kenya had the largest number of guns in civilian hands in eastern Africa amid rising gun attacks.