1. South Africa

South Africa has one of Africa's most sophisticated arms production firms. It is also known to have one of the world's most sophisticated arms industries away from the west. It is considered that the weapons industry is at the same level as Brazil and India. Manufacture of South Africa; light armored vehicles, anti-tank missiles, helicopters of attack, military tracks, armored personal carriers, vehicles of internal defense, hand gans and rifles. Among several other nations, South Africa imports some of its arms to the US, China, Sweden and Zambia.

2. Egypt

Egypt is considered Africa's most powerful nation, which means that it owns a lot of weapons. Egypt manufactures much of its arms locally. According to the Human Right Watch deputy director of the Middle East and North Africa division, Mr. Joe Stork, Egypt has been among the first countries in Africa to develop its own arms since the 1820s. Todate, Egypt, and many others, renders rockets, animations, artillery, rifles, warships.

3. Ethiopia

Ethiopia, like Egypt, began making its own weapons under Emperor Tewondor in the 1800s. Ethiopia is currently considered the home of one of the continent's largest armies. Ethiopia primarily produces rocket-propelled rifles, small arms, rockets and grenades.

4. Kenya

The first Kenyan company to produce arms, KOFC, was founded in 1997. It was managed and set up by the Ministry of Defense. It primarily manufactures small arms. Kenya is currently home to other arms production firms, such as Osprea Logistics (owned by South Africa), FN Herstal (owned by Belgium), among others.

5. Nigeria

By the early 1960s, Nigeria, Africa's biggest economy, had begun making some of its arms. Nigeria is making its variant of the AK47 rifle. The nation's domestically manufactured weapons do not completely certify the Nigerian army, so the Nigerian government invested around $1 billion annually on military machinery and training.

6. Namibia

Since the 1900s, Namibia has been producing some of its arms. Windhoeker MaschinenFabrik has produced and exported small numbers of wheeled light-armored vehicles since 1977, according to Policy Pap. Small arms and animations are also developed by Namibia.

7. Ghana

Hundreds of years back, Ghana began producing some of its own weapons. Shotguns, pistols and single barrel guns are mainly produced in Ghana.

8. Sudan

Sudan has a company for the manufacture of weapons called the Military Industry Corporation, which was founded in 1993. Sudan also has, outside Khartoum, at least three weapons factories. They produce a wide range of weapons, such as armored vehicles, battle tanks, and ammunition.

9. Tanzania

Tanzania traces from as early as the fourth century AD its arms manufacturing sector. People were specializing in making instruments and weapons in that region. According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, Tanzania's Mzinga Corporation is said to produce about seven million rounds of ammunition annually. Tanzania also has small ammunition factories, according to Gunpolicy.org's latest report.

10. Zimbabwe

According to gunpolicy.org, Zimbabwe has at least two firearms factories. They were created by the Zimbabwe Defence Industry in 1985.

11. Uganda 

Uganda traces from as early as the 1800s its weapons industry. Bunyoro's powerful kingdom was established by a powerful army whose weapons were manufactured locally. Uganda has a small arms ammunition company, according to a report from gunpolicy.org. There are at least three arms manufacturing factories in the country.

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