Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime

The police in South Africa’s Gauteng arrested 1,450 suspects in weekend operations aimed at improving safety in the province...

Taking a page out of the financial crime enforcements handbook, researchers at the Global Initiative Against Transnational...

Guinea-Bissau continues to serve as a key cocaine transit point between Latin America and Europe, despite government pledges...

Commercial seaports in South-eastern Europe (SEE) are nodes for cocaine and heroin smuggling and illicit trade. Drug...

Products derived from pangolins, whose populations around the world have been brought to the brink of extinction by...

The West African nation of Liberia is entering a period of accelerating vulnerability, threatening to create conditions for...

The Sahel, the arid plains of North Africa wedged between the Sahara desert and the dense jungles farther south, has long...

South Africa, the world’s largest chrome producer, loses around 10% of its annual production to illegal mining which has...

Despite charges of illicitly trafficking over 30 tonnes of ivory for over a decade now, the alleged members of one of...

For almost a decade now, South Africa’s construction sector has had to contend with organized crime groups that extort...

The latest commodity being trafficked out of Southeast Asia and on to lucrative markets in China is neither wildlife nor...

Organized criminals in the western Balkans and particularly Albania are increasingly using the United Arab Emirates as a...