A triangle of vulnerability – changing patterns of illicit trafficking off the Swahili coast
A triangle of vulnerability for illicit trafficking is emerging as a key geographic space along Africa’s eastern seaboard – the Swahili coast. At...
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East and Southern Africa Risk Bulletin #8
In this eighth issue of the Risk Bulletin of Illicit Economies in Eastern and Southern Africa (May-June 2020), we reflect on the interdependence...
East and Southern Africa Risk Bulletin #7
This special edition of the Eastern and Southern African Risk Bulletin focuses on the Mozambique crisis. The first of three articles on the subject...
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UN Crime Congress: Items that need to be on the agenda
Two key areas that have been impacted by – and have impacted – the context of COVID-19 are environmental crime and the question of...
COVID-19 reveals costly blind spots in efforts to combat wildlife crime
The coronavirus outbreak shows that oversights in ground-level approaches to combating wildlife crime in southern Africa come at a great price. While...
#CovidCrimeWatch – n°10
By the end of this week, it will be five months since a cluster of cases of pneumonia were reported in Wuhan and a novel coronavirus was identified....
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Organised Crime Index (Africa 2019)
The ENACT Organised Crime Index is an innovative tool designed to measure levels of organised crime in African countries and assess their resilience...
Launch of the IUU Fishing Index
The Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime and Poseidon – Aquatic Resource Management Ltd. are pleased to announce the launch of...
World Atlas of Illicit Flows
Organized crime takes the lion’s share of USD31.5 billion in illicit flows in and around conflict areas A new report warns that the...
Empty Shells: An assessment of abalone poaching and trade in southern Africa
Organised criminal syndicates drive collapse of South African abalone 96 million abalone poached in 18 years, new TRAFFIC report finds Over the past...
The Extractive Industry: Environmental Degradation & Human Rights Challenges
The extractive industry is highly vulnerable to human rights abuses and environmental crime, such as human trafficking along with the uncontrolled...
Untouchable? Criminal networks, traffickers and the trade in rhino horn
Six thousand rhinos have fallen to poachers’ bullets in Africa over the past decade and only about 25,000 remain – a fraction of the tens of...
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Has environmental crime changed during the COVID-19 crisis?
As we see clean skies above formerly polluted cities, many environmentalists are celebrating the reduced impact on nature from the lowered...
Wildlife trafficking: Time for a radical rethink
From calls for blanket bans in wildlife trade to the need for a new global agreement that focuses on wildlife crime, COVID-19 has shown the...
Organized Crime and Criminal Networks in Africa
Summary and Keywords Organised crime and criminal networks are an outcome of Africa’s weak systems of state reach and governance, and in turn they...
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Organized Crime and Criminal Networks in Africa
Summary and Keywords Organised crime and criminal networks are an outcome of Africa’s weak systems of state reach and governance, and in turn they...
In Plane Sight: Wildlife Trafficking in the Air Transport Sector
In Plane Sight examines wildlife trafficking through the air transport sector by analyzing nine years’ worth of open source seizure...
Buyers in Good Faith: How Timber Exporters are Complicit in Plundering Peru’s Amazon
The most significant, high-profile attempt in Peru’s history to stop illegal timber exports took place very early one morning in November 2015,...