NAS-Obs

Human smuggling and trafficking in North Africa and the Sahel 2025

Human smuggling and trafficking in North Africa and the Sahel

...North Africa and the Sahel have long been central regions for migrant movement, human smuggling and trafficking, with their importance growing steadily since the late 1990s. Today, they remain critica...

Posted on 15 Dec 2025

Author(s): Rupert Horsley, Alice Fereday

EAS-Obs

Why Ukraine must seize this moment to free itself of the shadow system

...On 28 November, Andriy Yermak, head of the president’s office and arguably the second most powerful man in Ukraine, announced that he was resigning after searches at his apartment linked to Operatio...

Posted on 13 Dec 2025

Author(s): Alex Goodwin

SA-Obs

Western Cape Gang Monitor – Issue 7

Western Cape Gang Monitor

...A year of escalating gang violence in the Western Cape has sustained the worrying upward trend of the past five years. This issue of the Western Cape Gang Monitor summarizes the factors that have driv...

Posted on 12 Dec 2025

WEA-Obs

West Africa Risk Bulletin #13

Observatory of illicit economies in West Africa

...Risk Bulletin Download PDF Click here to view the Global Organized Crime Index fr Français Observatory of Illicit Economies in West Africa Issue 13 December 2025 Summary highlights Arms trafficking r...

Posted on 10 Dec 2025

SEE-Obs

South Eastern Europe Risk Bulletin #22

Observatory of illicit economies in South Eastern Europe

...Risk Bulletin Download PDF Click here to view the Global Organized Crime Index Observatory of Illicit Economies in South Eastern Europe Issue 22 December 2025 Summary highlights Balkan criminal networ...

Posted on 09 Dec 2025

APA-Obs

Mekong Risk Monitor #1

Mekong Risk Monitor

...The Mekong Risk Monitor is a periodic publication produced by the Mekong Network to Counter Transnational Crime (MNET-CTC), a programme implemented in partnership by the Global Initiative Against Tran...

Posted on 08 Dec 2025

APA-Obs

Criminal currents: Climate change and organized crime threats in the Pacific Islands

Criminal currents

...Climate change and organized crime are increasingly interconnected global challenges. In the Pacific Islands, where climate change is a tangible and immediate existential threat, their intersection ha...

Posted on 04 Dec 2025

Author(s): Virginia Comolli

Gold Watch, WEA-Obs

Violent extremist threats to northern Ghana’s gold sector

Violent extremist threats to northern Ghana’s gold sector

...Across northern Ghana, artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) operates in a context of informality, porous borders and opaque financial flows, conditions that mirror the environments in which Ja...

Posted on 03 Dec 2025

Author(s): Marcena Hunter, Gideon Ofosu-Peasah