NAS-Obs

Muhasasa, militias and meddling foreign actors: The challenges facing Libya’s new government

...On 10 March 2021, Libya’s Government of National Unity (GNU), led by Prime Minister Abd al-Hamid Dabaiba, won a parliamentary vote of confidence with a sweeping majority. This is the country’s fir...

Posted on 26 Mar 2021

Author(s): Emadeddin Badi

Drug Policy, ESA-Obs, SA-Obs

A Synthetic Age: The Evolution of Methamphetamine Markets in Eastern and Southern Africa

A Synthetic Age

...The purpose of this report is to examine the existing retail markets for meth across several countries in eastern and southern Africa. This will be achieved through an analysis of meth availability, r...

Posted on 24 Mar 2021

Author(s): Jason Eligh

Crime & Conflict

Organized Crime in the Levant

Organized Crime in the Levant

...Organized crime and illicit economies in the Levant are as varied as they are prominent. The region’s location on the Mediterranean Sea and at the intersection between Europe, Africa and Asia make t...

Posted on 22 Mar 2021

Author(s): Laura Adal

ESA-Obs, SA-Obs

East and Southern Africa Risk Bulletin #16

Civil Society Observatory of Illicit Economies in Eastern and Southern Africa

...Risk Bulletin Download PDF Observatory of Illicit Economies in Eastern and Southern Africa Issue 16 Feb–Mar 2021 Summary highlights Why did two major ivory trafficking cases in Tanzania collapse, wi...

Posted on 18 Mar 2021

Global Strategy

The Global Illicit Economy: Trajectories of Organized Crime

The Global Illicit Economy

...Through stark images and charts, this report gives a graphic illustration of how the global illicit economy has boomed in the past 20 years and how it poses a serious threat to security, development a...

Posted on 11 Mar 2021

Sustainable Development Goals, UN-TOC Watch

Kyoto Declaration falls short of addressing the real challenges of organized crime

...In this second review of the Kyoto Declaration, we examine what the declaration tells us about international priorities on transnational organized crime and assess what has been left out of the wordin...

Posted on 09 Mar 2021

Author(s): Ian Tennant

Assassination Witness

Far from ‘Mission Accomplished” on the Caruana Galizia murder case

... The investigation into the murder of Maltese anti-corruption journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia has been a violent rollercoaster since she was blown up in her car on 16 October 2017. Long periods of ...

Posted on 05 Mar 2021

Author(s): Mark Micallef

UN-TOC Watch

Kyoto Declaration: States affirm their primacy in crime prevention and criminal justice amid downgraded role of civil society

...The 14th United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice kicks off on 7 March 2021 in Kyoto and is set to adopt its outcome document titled the ‘Declaration on advancing crime preve...

Posted on 05 Mar 2021

Author(s): Ian Tennant