WEA-Obs

‘A very strange coup attempt’

...A recent incident in Guinea-Bissau at first sight bears the hallmarks of a failed military coup, but closer scrutiny leaves many unanswered questions. Either way, it is almost certain to have been lin...

Posted on 04 Feb 2022

Author(s): Lucia Bird Ruiz-Benitez de Lugo, A. Gomes

Assassination Witness

Silencing the witnesses

...On 15 July 2021, investigative reporter and crime journalist Peter R. de Vries was shot multiple times after leaving the TV studio in Amsterdam where he appeared as a regular guest on a talk show. ...

Posted on 04 Feb 2022

NAS-Obs, WEA-Obs

Whose crime is it anyway? Organized crime and international stabilization efforts in Mali

Whose crime is it anyway?

...Since 2013, the Republic of Mali has become a focal point of international efforts to stabilize the Sahel region through a mix of direct military intervention, security assistance, development aid and...

Posted on 03 Feb 2022

Author(s): Peter Tinti

APA-Obs, SA-Obs

Disrupting abalone harms: Illicit flows of H. midae from South Africa to East Asia

Disrupting abalone harms

...Abalone, a variety of marine snail, is valued as a high-status delicacy in East Asia, primarily in China. For more than 30 years, a species of abalone found only in South African waters – Haliotis m...

Posted on 02 Feb 2022

Author(s): Kimon de Greef, Simone Haysom

Global Organized Crime Index, Latinoamérica y el Caribe

Part of the landscape

...Latin America is widely known to be home to some of the most powerful criminal organizations in the world, but the region's criminal ecosystem is dominated by state-embedded actors, many of whom prote...

Posted on 28 Jan 2022

Author(s): Josefina Salomón