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Mafia-style crimes
ENACT Live: Nigerian confraternities in South Africa – brotherhood or criminal enterprise?

Targeted interventions will be needed to unravel the complex layers of criminality associated with these groups.

30 / 10 / 2025

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Organised crime in Africa
Ghana’s land guards: structure, profile and adaptation strategies

This paper discusses land guards as a distinct organised crime group and offers suggestions on addressing their criminal networks.

10 / 06 / 2025 by Ndubuisi Christian Ani, Feyi Ogunade & Theodora Williams Anti

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Mafia-style crimes
Youth gangs in Liberia: motives, structure and illicit economies

This paper focuses on youth gangs as a distinct criminal group involved in violent crimes in Monrovia’s urban centres.

24 / 01 / 2025 by Ndubuisi Christian Ani, Feyi Ogunade & John Kamma

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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

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Cross-border smuggling
Le vol de bétail pousse les communautés d’Afrique centrale à bout

À la frontière entre le Tchad et le Cameroun, le bétail devient une cible de choix pour les réseaux criminels, les terroristes et les milices locales.

19 / 12 / 2024 by Oluwole Ojewale

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Mafia-style crimes
ENACT Live: The shadow economy – countering extortion in South Africa

Local solutions informed by international experience are urgently needed to curb the growing threat of extortion.

24 / 10 / 2024

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Mafia-style crimes
Construction mafia weakens the foundations of South Africa’s economy

Fuelled by political corruption, extortion networks are undermining the country’s construction industry.

18 / 09 / 2024 by Terence Corrigan

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Mafia-style crimes
Extortionists have South Africa’s economies down the barrel of a gun

Government, businesses and communities need to work together to get South Africa’s economies out of the grip of criminals.

10 / 09 / 2024 by Jenni Irish-Qhobosheane

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Organised crime in Africa
Concentrations of violence: a case study of Grassy Park, Cape Town

This paper provides insight and practical recommendations for policymakers and civil society in Cape Town and the Western Cape.

08 / 03 / 2024 by Julia Stanyard

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Mafia-style crimes
Muted violence in Kenya’s 2022 elections masked seething dissent

While better security and legislation may have resulted in more peaceful polls – subsequent election-related violence undermines democracy.

24 / 04 / 2023 by Ken Opala

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Drug trafficking
Morocco: a critical link in the Latin America-Europe cocaine chain

The Mocro Maffia cartel is increasingly becoming a serious threat to countries in Europe and North Africa.

27 / 01 / 2023 by ENACT

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Drug trafficking
La Mocro Maffia marocaine menace l’Europe et l’Afrique du Nord

Le Maroc, la Belgique et les Pays-Bas sont des pays pivots dans la chaîne de cocaïne entre l’Amérique latine et l’Europe.

27 / 01 / 2023 by ENACT

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