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As law enforcement attaché to the embassy of France in Dakar, Jean-Luc Peduzzi, who is tasked with implementing bilateral security co-operation with Senegal, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau and Gambia, [...]

Abajo la versión en español. Often called ‘Africa’s first narco-state’, Guinea-Bissau achieved notoriety for becoming the foremost West African thru-passage at a time when [...]

June has been an active month for a number of major global publications and policy discussions on the issue of transnational organized crime.   Debates on a number of fronts appear to be moving [...]

Abajo la versión en español On May 18th, over 600,000 citizens in Guinea-Bissau, or just over 78 percent of all registered voters, patiently queued up and peacefully submitted their ballots to [...]

This October, the sting was used to great effect to capture an infamous Somali pirate, to entrap the man behind the infamous online marketplace for illicit goods, the Silk Road.  In another [...]

Abajo la versión en español The long overdue legislative and presidential elections in Guinea Bissau that had been scheduled for the 24th November, have now been indefinitely postponed. Delays in [...]

The long overdue legislative and presidential elections in Guinea Bissau that had been scheduled for the 24th November, have now been indefinitely postponed.  Delays in agreeing a way forward on [...]

October was a big month for “sting” operations: those interdiction efforts where covert operations are used to take out high value targets in the upper echelons of a criminal of a [...]

The Global Initiative has reviewed the biggest developments, publications and new tools on organized crime for the last month and is pleased to share the “Analyzing Organized Crime” [...]

The Global Initiative has reviewed the biggest developments, publications and new tools on organized crime for the last month and is pleased to share its first “Analyzing Organized [...]