Crime & Conflict, Protecting Politics, NAS-Obs, WEA-Obs

Déby’s death will fuel instability and criminal opportunity in the Sahel

...Chad, long considered a ‘pillar of stability’ in the Sahel, is at risk as a jostle for power takes place in the country following the death of the country’s long-standing leader, Idriss Déby. T...

Posted on 23 Apr 2021

Author(s): Alexandre Bish

Extortion in Central America, Latinoamérica y el Caribe, CAM-Obs

Extortion in Central America – Gender, micro-trafficking, and Panama

Extorsión en Centroamérica

...Gangs and criminal organizations in Central America continue to seek means of adapting to COVID-19 while communities look to build resilience to its effects. The aim of this report is to contribute to...

Posted on 21 Apr 2021

Author(s): Guillermo Vazquez del Mercado Almada, Luis Félix, Gerardo Carballo Barral

JIED

Call for Papers: City-Making and Organized Crime

...This special section explores the ways in which heterogeneous governance actors, including formal state, private enterprises and organized criminal groups, co-produce cities. As spaces that concentra...

Posted on 15 Apr 2021

UN - Security and Rights, WEA-Obs

Mission not accomplished? UNIOGBIS closes amid uncertainty in Guinea-Bissau

Mission not accomplished?

...At the request of the UN Security Council (UNSC), the Secretary-General assessed UNIOGBIS in 2018 and provided recommendations on how to reconfigure the mission to ‘reflect a more coherent, nimble a...

Posted on 15 Apr 2021

Author(s): Summer Walker

SEE-Obs

South Eastern Europe Risk Bulletin #6

Observatory of illicit economies in South Eastern Europe

...Risk Bulletin Download PDF mk Македонски sq Shqip Observatory of Illicit Economies in South Eastern Europe Issue 6 March–April 2021 Summary highlights A trafficking hub in the middle of no...

Posted on 14 Apr 2021

Resilience Fund

Passing of Innocent Chukwuma

...The Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime is deeply shocked and saddened by the sudden passing of Innocent Chukwuma, the renowned civil society leader and Chair of the Advisory Counc...

Posted on 05 Apr 2021

ESACD

Illicit drug markets of Eastern and Southern Africa

Illicit drug markets of Eastern and Southern Africa

...The countries of Eastern and Southern Africa have a long history of illicit drug cultivation, production, consumption and trade. Khat, a crop that is indigenous to the Horn and coastal East Africa, ha...

Posted on 01 Apr 2021

Author(s): Jason Eligh

Global Initiative

Trafficking under the radar

...Although the UK is established as a world leader in responding to human trafficking, recent developments involving breaches in the country’s handling of human trafficking dynamics highlight that it ...

Posted on 01 Apr 2021

Author(s): Reanna Smith