Timber trafficking out of Myanmar, which is largely shipped to China, is responsible for the rapid deforestation of the southeast Asian country, the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC) revealed in a new report.

Transnational organised crime has grown exponentially since the early 1990s and is now a key factor exacerbating many of the world’s major problems, including climate change, mass migration, economic inequality and political instability, according to a report published Thursday.

Hundreds of civilians have been killed by Islamist insurgents, government security forces and a pro-government mercenary company in a poverty-driven conflict in the north of Mozambique, a key pillar in southern Africa’s various illicit economies, states a report published on Tuesday.