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20 Oct

When

20 Oct 2025
3 PM

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Zoom Webinar

Building on mapping launched in 2022, the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC) has undertaken a comprehensive mapping of 350 illicit hubs across West Africa and parts of Central Africa. These hubs are locations where illicit economies converge, and where their impact on conflict and instability can be assessed. The flagship report analyzes the findings of the Illicit Economies and Instability Monitor (IEIM), an expert-led tool that provides a quantitative assessment of the degree to which illicit economies fuel violence and instability, providing policymakers with clear insights as to the major crime–conflict nodes in the region.

About the project

This research is delivered by the GI-TOC as part of the ‘Support to the Mitigation of Destabilizing Effects of Transnational Organised Crime (M-TOC)’. The M-TOC project is an ECOWAS project commissioned by the German Federal Foreign Office, implemented by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, and the GI-TOC, from 2024 to 2025. The project aims to map regional illicit markets in West Africa in order to improve the evidence base for stabilisation and peacebuilding interventions, and to strengthen the engagement of civil society and state actors in the fight against criminal markets.

Live interpretation will be available in English and French.