Those look like home-made shotgun-shell-shooting pistols. The contents of the plastic bags in the right side of the picture seem fibrous--marijuana or khat? But those pistols: it looks likes there's a cottage industry churning them out. I wonder what the trigger mechanism looks like. I also wonder if those are the pistols that LRA found in the shipment, or something LRA already had on hand. If I had the money to smuggle lots of drugs, I'd smuggle some better weapons along with them.
UPDATE: not-homemade, Grim identified them. Still, they look like substitutes.
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And the answer is . . . no.
Perhaps the article was updated since you saw it --
• The drugs were found at the RIA Cargo warehouse as meth in a shipment of Organic Stevia Green Tea Leaf having entered the country via Kenya Airways flight (KQ 508) on 11 September.
• The guns (which really look like 12-gauge signaling-flare hardware to me, but I'm no expert) came in overland and were found at the Yeala Customs Business Office in a routine inspection of a trader entering from Guinea.
Might as well be hung for a sheep as for a lamb.
(Interesting in that statement that it only makes sense if the sheep is a good deal more valuable than the lamb. Wool and meat in quantity rather than for luxury goods.)
I agree with Douglas2: those are flare guns.
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