Fauna

AI can turn the tide on organised environmental crime in Africa

Artificial intelligence offers innovative solutions to the expensive and time-consuming business of policing environmental crimes.

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.

Flora

ENACT Live: How is Southern Africa dealing with trafficking in plants and reptiles?

This event explores responses to prevent and combat the growing illegal trade in wildlife.

ENACT Live: Lake Victoria – a convergence point for environmental crimes

Criminals target loopholes in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania’s security force operations to exploit the lake’s ecosystem for profit.

14 / 08 / 2024

Organised crime in Africa

ENACT Live: Is Africa making the most of MLA and extradition to combat organised crime?

New research shows how better cooperation between governments could tighten the net around transnational organised criminal markets and actors.

Arms trafficking

ENACT Live: Side event, 33rd Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice – Illegal firearms trade within Africa

New research in East, West and Central Africa outlines emerging practices in response to arms trafficking.

Organised crime in Africa

ENACT Live: Violent extremist groups and illicit economies in West Africa

What is the nexus between armed groups and illicit economies in southern Mali and northern Benin?

Fauna

Pangolins for profit: from seizure, to safety, to survival

ENACT considers the current status of the illegal pangolin trade and the efforts to safeguard the species in South Africa.