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<\/a><\/p>\n28 December 2011<\/p>\n
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Khartoum \u2014 The defense minister of Niger Mahamadou Karidjo expressed his fears regarding the smuggling of weapons from Libya to fall into the hands of wrong people.<\/p>\n
In his meeting with Sudanese president Omer Hassan al-Bashir, the Nigerien official called for coordination between the two countries to avoid the dangers of outlaws getting hold of of these weapons.<\/p>\n
Bashir on his end affirmed his country’s keenness on the security coordination with the Niger as well as cooperation in the fields of agricultural investment.<\/p>\n
Since the downfall of Gaddafi’s regime in Libya last October, there were reports on some sophisticated weapons being missing from the stores of the Libyan army and their whereabouts unknown.<\/p>\n
Western countries are fearful that Al-Qaeda linked terrorists get hold of these weapons.<\/p>\n
Sudan beefed up control of its borders with Libya to prevent infiltration of weapons particularly through the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) rebels.<\/p>\n
The JEM leader Khalil Ibrahim who was killed last week has been staying in Libya for more than a year before managing to escape and return to Darfur.<\/p>\n
But Khartoum later claimed that weapons could have possibly slipped through despite the measures.<\/p>\n
“We cannot exclude the possibility that some weapons have crossed into Darfur from Libya,” Sudan’s ambassador to the UN Daffa-Alla Elhag Ali Osman told Agence France Presse (AFP) in October.<\/p>\n
“We are very much concerned about it” he said.<\/p>\n
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