Mozambique turns arms into art

Mozambican artists have decommissioned weapons in a graphic way, taking them apart and using the remains to make a range of novel and eloquent sculptures. Thirty pieces from the collection, the work of the Transforming Arms into Ploughshares project, are on show at the Oxo Gallery on London's South Bank from 18 January to 3 February.

One of the sculptors, Goncalo Mabunda, at work

The bird that wants to survive, by Fiel Dos Santos

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The chariot goes on its way in peace

Crocodile, by Humberto Delgado

Kester's mournful musician

The project has collected and destroyed more than 200,000 guns, grenades and rocket launchers. People handing them in are given farm tools or other equipment.

Images courtesy of Christian Aid/Paul Hackett