Trade and counterfeit goods

Comment freiner le commerce illégal de tabac en Afrique du Nord ?

Les pays doivent intensifier leur coopération sécuritaire pour endiguer le trafic de cigarettes vers la Libye et la Tunisie.

Human smuggling

Politics trumps migrant lives in the Mediterranean

Migrant drownings show European states’ failure to meet international legal obligations, including non-refoulement and saving those in distress at sea.

Cross-border smuggling

Les sanctions ne suffisent pas à juguler l’économie illicite en Libye

Elles ont cependant contraint les réseaux criminels à se montrer plus discrets et à s’adapter.

Cross-border smuggling

Countering Libya’s illicit economies through targeted sanctions

Targeted sanctions have impacted and shaped Libya’s illicit economies but not curtailed them. To improve effect, a rethink is needed.

Trade and counterfeit goods

What will it take to stub out North Africa’s illegal tobacco trade?

Closer security cooperation is needed between countries to stem cigarette trafficking into Libya and Tunisia.

Cross-border smuggling

Mali: West Africa’s hub for illegal gold trade with Dubai

The country needs to strengthen its domestic responses to trade discrepancies that enable illicit gold trading in West Africa.

Drug trafficking

Chad’s illegal drug trade contributes to regional insecurity

Curbing tramadol and other trafficking networks requires transnational cooperation.

Cross-border smuggling

Sudan puts the brakes on cross-border vehicle smuggling

Will Sudan’s border closures counter vehicle smuggling and other forms of organised crime?

18 / 05 / 2020 by Mohamed Daghar and Jihane Ben Yahia

Fauna

Will the melody linger on? Morocco moves to save the goldfinch

There is no dedicated strategy to address the illicit capture and trafficking of the goldfinch in the Maghreb.

20 / 03 / 2020 by Jihane Ben Yahia

Fauna

La mélodie persistera-t-elle ? Le Maroc s’efforce de sauver le chardonneret

Il n'existe pas de stratégie spécifique pour lutter contre la capture et le trafic illicite du chardonneret au Maghreb.

20 / 03 / 2020 by Jihane Ben yahia

Human smuggling

Migrants’ dangerous transit through Libya

Libya’s migration laws should be consistent with protecting basic human rights and dignity for migrants

Cross-border smuggling

What drives illicit trade in North Africa?

Poor governance, corruption and porous borders are among the underlying reasons for the increase in illicit trade.