EUR-Obs

Berlin burning: Developments in the German capital confirm a Europe-wide trend of rising criminal violence

...Berlin is currently facing an unprecedented surge in lawlessness, driven by a criminal underworld undergoing profound shifts. Germany, a country accustomed to modest levels of criminal violence, now a...

Posted on 02 Apr 2026

Author(s): Daniel Brombacher

Global Initiative

Democratizing cybercrime: How sophisticated AI systems are empowering a new generation of cybercriminals 

...AI is once again in the news for the wrong reasons, with recent developments at two major companies – Anthropic and OpenAI – introducing an unprecedented cybersecurity vulnerabilityÂ...

Posted on 31 Mar 2026

Global Organized Crime Index, APA-Obs

Papua New Guinea returns to the FATF grey list

...Papua New Guinea has been placed on the Financial Action Task Force (FATF)’s grey list for the second time in 10 years. This time, however, the country cannot simply pass new legislation to re...

Posted on 30 Mar 2026

Author(s): Michael Kabuni

SA-Obs

Western Cape gang monitor – Issue 8

Western Cape gang monitor

...During the monitoring period, hotspots of gang violence were closely linked to fragmentation dynamics – an issue explored in detail in this report – as well as territorial expansion. Conflict trig...

Posted on 29 Mar 2026

HT-Obs

Hispaniola’s common cause

...The arrival of the Gang Suppression Force (GSF) in Haiti in April 2026 signals a surge, albeit inconclusive, in international commitment to stabilizing Haiti’s security landscape. A successor of the...

Posted on 27 Mar 2026

Author(s): Dorly Castaneda

UN-TOC Watch

A new geopolitical and drug policy world

...Recent sessions of the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) have displayed, in different ways, how the multilateral approach to drugs is fracturing and straining. With a lack of consensus now the nor...

Posted on 26 Mar 2026

Author(s): Cecilia Farfán-Méndez, Daniel Brombacher, John Collins, Jason Eligh, Sophia Schärer, Ian Tennant

HT-Obs

Brokers and patrons: Unstitching gangs from Haiti’s political fabric

Brokers and patrons

...In Haiti, 5 915 people were killed in 2025 (compared to 5 601 in 2024). The national homicide rate got to 49.8 per 100 000 people, and Port-au-Prince, which is home to about a quarter of the populatio...

Posted on 24 Mar 2026

NAS-Obs

Unaccompanied Sudanese children face criminal exploitation in Libya’s survival economy

...The conflict in Sudan has triggered the world’s largest child displacement crisis. Since war erupted between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese Armed Forces in April 2023, ...

Posted on 20 Mar 2026

Author(s): Shanti Walde