The Illicit Tobacco Trade in Zimbabwe and South Africa
This groundbreaking study of the illicit tobacco trade in southern Africa explores how this trade supports organized crime, helps enable official...
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Analyzing trends in targeted killings in Nigeria
This report analyzes the dynamics of targeted killings in the country using a specially designed dataset over the period 2000 to 2017. The report...
Learning from community responses to gangs in Cape Town
South Africa, which has long experienced an exceptionally high rate of violent crime, has seen a worrying increase in the murder rate in recent...
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CAR: Where human trafficking is the norm
The Global Initiative recently published an article (When the Peacekeepers are Part of the Problem) that examines the 2018 iteration of the UNODC’s...
China ban on ivory significant to environmental conservation
Written by Joyce Kimani, a journalist sponsored under the ENACT programme partnership with Thomson Reuters. China’s ban on the ivory trade has...
Guns, pirates and charcoal
A report from the Somalia and Eritrea Monitoring Group shows that Somalia remains a deeply fractured state, but doesn’t go far enough to suggest...
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The challenges of measuring Organized Crime in Africa
Mark Shaw talks about data collection and measurement of Organized Crime in Africa, focusing on its great fragmentation. This presentation...
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...
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Global Shining Light Award Winner: Emmanuel Mayah
Every two years, the Global Investigative Journalism Network presents the Global Shining Light Award, a unique prize that honors investigative...
Hitmen for Hire: Exposing South Africa’s Underworld (video)
Contract killing and targeted “hits” in South Africa have become widespread and deeply embedded into parts of the country’s history of systemic...
GIN Interview – Jean-Luc Peduzzi, Head of the Dakar Platform
As law enforcement attaché to the embassy of France in Dakar, Jean-Luc Peduzzi, who is tasked with implementing bilateral security co-operation with...
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Data bulletins: improving migration data to implement the global compact for migration
IOM’s Global Migration Data Analysis Centre released an edited volume of the “Data Bulletin Series: Informing the Implementation of the Global...
Protecting Migrant Children
In this chapter, Arezo Malakooti (Senior expert on migration, Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime), provides an overview of the...
Human Trafficking and People Smuggling in the Mediterranean Area
A chapter authored by Tuesday Reitano (Deputy Director, Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime) for the 15th edition of the IEMed...