NIGERIAN President Olusegun Obasanjo has inaugurated a committee to implement a west African moratorium on small arms trafficking. In October 1998 in Abuja, west African leaders signed the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) memorandum on the import, export and manufacture of small arms and light weapons. The committee will work to control the movement of weapons at border posts, establish small and light weapons data bank, facilitate dialogue between producers and suppliers as well as collecting and destroying illicit weapons. – AFP