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Cross-border smuggling

Cattle rustling pushes Central African communities to the brink

Organised criminal networks, terrorists and local militias are increasingly targeting the livestock of pastoralists and farmers along the borders of Chad and Cameroon.

19 / 12 / 2024 by Oluwole Ojewale

Cross-border smuggling

Sudan, Chad and Libya knit together as illicit markets enable conflict economy

Sudan’s internal conflict has fuelled a new conflict economy in its northwest, amplifying regional illicit economies.

17 / 12 / 2024 by Matt Herbert

Cross-border smuggling

Soudan : le conflit civil redessine l’économie régionale illicite

Ce conflit alimente les marchés illicites de la région, les populations se tournant vers les réseaux de contrebande pour des produits de première nécessité.

17 / 12 / 2024 by Matt Herbert

Fauna

Boko Haram rustles cattle for survival in Lake Chad Basin

Stealing cows has become a critical revenue stream for the insurgents – complicating efforts to combat terrorism and organised crime.

03 / 12 / 2024 by Oluwole Ojewale & Raoul Sumo Tayo

Trade and counterfeit goods

Scrap metal smuggling endangers critical infrastructure in East Africa

Despite a ban on exports, collusion between actors in the scrap metal industry and demand in Tanzania and Uganda spur the illicit trade.

01 / 12 / 2023 by Willis Okumu

Mining and extractives

Fools for gold grifters in Kenya

Alongside smuggling, gold scamming is a prolific illicit market in Kenya, and halting it needs both government and civil society action.

21 / 11 / 2023 by Michael McLaggan

Arms trafficking

Le commerce des armes à feu artisanales au Ghana doit être régularisé

Les armes artisanales illégales représentent une menace qui pourrait être jugulée par la légalisation de leur fabrication et le contrôle de leur commerce.

25 / 10 / 2023 by Abdelkader Abderrahmane & Solomon Okai

Arms trafficking

Ghana’s artisanal arms market should be regulated

Creating a controlled legal market for artisanal arms manufacturing could reduce the growing domestic and regional threat.

25 / 10 / 2023 by Abdelkader Abderrahmane & Solomon Okai

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.

14 / 07 / 2023 by Matt Herbert

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.

14 / 07 / 2023 by Matt Herbert

Cross-border smuggling

Flux illicites vers et à travers l'Afrique

Cette conférence offre de nouvelles perspectives sur le commerce illicite d'explosifs et de cigarettes.

26 / 05 / 2023

Cross-border smuggling

Illegal trading into and through Africa

This seminar provides new insights into illicit trafficking of explosives and cigarettes.

26 / 05 / 2023