Eco-Solve

ECO-SOLVE Africa regional consultation

ECO-SOLVE Africa regional consultation

...On 23 November 2023, a regional expert consultation on exposing elite protection and corruption in environmental crime in Africa was organized as part of the ECO-SOLVE project, a new global programme ...

Posted on 20 Mar 2024

Crime & Conflict, UN - Security and Rights, UN-TOC Watch

Organized Crime and the Security Council: Analytical Tool

2000-2023: Charting Organized Crime on the UN Security Council Agenda

...The UN Security Council (UNSC) continues to track the detrimental role that organized crime, illicit flows and markets, and criminal actors are playing in conflict zones. We initially analyzed all UN...

Posted on 19 Mar 2024

Sustainable Development Goals, UN - Security and Rights, UN-TOC Watch

Illicit economies in Afghanistan under the Taliban

Illicit economies in Afghanistan under the Taliban

...More than two years after the Taliban’s return to power in Afghanistan on 15 August 2021, the country is once again high on the UN’s agenda. The levels of conflict-related violence may have signif...

Posted on 18 Mar 2024

Author(s): Maria Khoruk

Eco-Solve, Global Organized Crime Index

Better data and technology cooperation are needed in environmental crime responses

...Digital data is playing an increasingly prominent role in societies around the world, fuelled by expanding internet penetration, the growing reach of social media platforms and the ubiquity of technol...

Posted on 18 Mar 2024

Author(s): Alastair Macbeath

Crime & Conflict, Crime Terror Nexus, WEA-Obs

What does the recent escalation of mass abductions in Nigeria tell us?

...A spate of abductions in Nigeria is heightening tensions in the country. What has happened, who is responsible and what does it say about where Nigeria is headed?  Since the end of February, over 50...

Posted on 15 Mar 2024

Author(s): Kingsley L. Madueke, Lawan Danjuma Adamu, Ladd Serwat

Eco-Solve, Global Organized Crime Index

Can exposure reporting disrupt organized environmental crime?

...In 2018, Australian photographer Adrian Steirn’s exposure of the illegal ivory trade in Zimbabwe, published through the Al Jazeera media network, prompted Zimbabwe to launch an investigation into th...

Posted on 14 Mar 2024

Author(s): Kristina Amerhauser

ENACT

Concentrations of violence

Concentrations of violence

...This report, authored by Julia Stanyard, was originally published at enactafrica.org This paper provides insight and practical recommendations for policymakers and civil society in Cape Tow...

Posted on 08 Mar 2024

Author(s): Julia Stanyard

Crime & Conflict, Crime Terror Nexus, WEA-Obs

Hostage to violent extremism: Kidnapping in northern Benin

Hostage to violent extremism

...Kidnappings in northern Benin surged in 2022 as violent extremist organisations (VEOs) intensified their southwards spread from the Sahel. By the end of November 2023, northern Benin had experienced a...

Posted on 07 Mar 2024

Author(s): Flore Berger, Lyes Tagziria, Abdel Aziz Mossi