A Rough Cut Trade: Africa’s Coloured-Gemstone Flows to Asia
The coloured gemstone sector is an international trade linking supply countries in Africa and traders in Thailand and elsewhere in Asia. Today, there...
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Transnational Tentacles – Global hotspots of Western Balkan Organized Crime
While the Western Balkans is often portrayed as a hotspot of illicit activity, the region is a relatively small market for organized crime. The...
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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#CovidCrimeWatch – July
As of 21 July 2020, almost 15 million cases of COVID-19 had been reported worldwide, and over 610 000 deaths registered. Although both have continued...
Dubai’s dubious gold standards
A new report by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP), Dubai’s Role in Facilitating Corruption and Global Illicit Financial Flows,...
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...
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Southern Africa: Spikes in avocado and macadamia thefts (eNCA)
The surprising emergence of black markets for avocados and macadamias in Southern Africa is the focus of our lead story for the ESAObs Risk Bulletin...
After the storm: Organized crime across the Sahel-Sahara following upheaval in Libya and Mali
Organized crime in the Sahel has entered a new phase of consolidation and diversification. During the past decade, criminal activity expanded...
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...
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A Tale of Two Countries: COVID-19 and organized crime in the Korean Peninsula.
There couldn’t be a starker contrast. Since its first confirmed case of an infection in late January, South Korea has responded swiftly and...
GI-TOC condemns the detention and exclusion of Serbian journalist from participating at UN Anti-corruption Conference in UAE
Geneva, 19 December 2019 – As reported by the UNCAC Coalition, award-winning Serbian journalist Stevan Dojčinović, founder and editor-in-chief of...
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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Dubai’s dubious gold standards
A new report by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP), Dubai’s Role in Facilitating Corruption and Global Illicit Financial Flows,...
African illicit financial flows: designing and prioritising responses
IFFs are difficult to detect and prosecute when regulatory systems lack integrity, transparency, and accountability. Africa is estimated to lose...
Dark Pharma: Counterfeit and Contraband Pharmaceuticals in Central America
This working paper, the second in a series on the global illicit economy, focuses on the “dark pharma” trade in Central America, where no country...