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After Sudan's peace deal, the hard task begins of gathering the guns

Rifles taken from the public in Sudan are placed in a pit before they are blown up -- there some 2.76 million illegally-held weapons in Sudan in 2017, or 6.6 guns for every 100 people, experts estimate. [AFP]

Sudan is celebrating a landmark agreement to end decades of war, but the first step to turn promises on paper into peace is also one of the most explosive — disarmament.

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