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Drug trafficking in West Africa: Threatening regional peace, stability and security

This paper discusses how drug trafficking in West Africa causes severe economic, social, political and public health problems across the whole region. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime...

The changing nature of conflict: The growth of Islamic insurgency groups

CONSULTANCY AFRICA INTELLIGENCE

The nature of conflicts and security threats across Africa has been changing. In the 1970s and 1980s, interstate conflicts prevailed, and were dealt with through the use of power politics. Yet the...

The changing nature of conflict: The growth of Islamic insurgency groups

CONSULTANCY AFRICA INTELLIGENCE

The nature of conflicts and security threats across Africa has been changing. In the 1970s and 1980s, interstate conflicts prevailed, and were dealt with through the use of power politics. Yet the...

Counter-terrorism in West Africa needs greater police cooperation

INSTITUTE FOR SECURITY STUDIES

The growing number of terrorist attacks and the multiplicity of terrorist groups in West Africa demand increased cross-border cooperation among law enforcement agencies. As first responders to...

Check your blind spot, confronting criminal spoilers in the Sahel (March 2013)

ORGANISED CRIME

Western governments focus heavily on the presence of Islamist extremists in the Sahel and have provided technical assistance in an attempt to strengthen the capacity of the security sectors and...

Drug trafficking: The new threat to peace and security in West Africa

CONSULTANCY AFRICA INTELLIGENCE

Since 2007, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has been reporting on the fact that drug networks have turned their attention to Africa as a new drug hub and transit route for...

Transnational Crime in our Time: Exposed Areas and Red Flags

INSTITUTE FOR SECURITY STUDIES

The need for crime management to adapt to the nature of organised crime is as great today as it has ever been. This point is underscored by revelations in a recently concluded trial after a...

Globalisation and transnational organised crime in South Africa

CONSULTANCY AFRICA INTELLIGENCE

It is argued that in an increasingly borderless world, transnational criminal groups have developed the ability to manoeuvre, prosper and become a dangerous threat to the world system. Increasing...

DA: Statement by Gareth Morgan, Democratic Alliance shadow minister of water and environmental affairs, on rhino poaching (15/01/2012)

Statements

The South African National Parks (SANParks) on Friday issued a call for help to end South Africa’s rhino poaching scourge, after 11 rhinos had been killed by poachers in the Kruger Park...

The Devil in the Detail – How the Arms Deal changed everything

VIDEO

The 'Arms Deal' was never a single event. Rather it was, and still is, a series of scandals and outrages, all contributing towards a dubious momentum that takes South Africa further away from...

The Challenge of Organised Crime and Urbanisation

INSTITUTE FOR SECURITY STUDIES

Over the past decade, thousands of Kenyan youths, living in Kibera on the outskirts of Nairobi, have affiliated themselves to the Mungiki – a criminal gang that considers itself to be an...

Securing Africa’s Nuclear Resources

INSTITUTE FOR SECURITY STUDIES

Although the need to better secure nuclear and other radioactive material and associated technologies has been on the international agenda for many years, it has taken on heightened significance in...

Resource wars and the world outside

CONSULTANCY AFRICA INTELLIGENCE

Many of the contemporary conflicts in Africa are characterised by the exploitation of and conflict over valued and lucrative natural resources. These resources include oil, water, natural gas,...

Lessons on Natural Resources Conflict Management from the International Conference on the Great Lake

INSTITUTE FOR SECURITY STUDIES

What do the peace processes and various agreements on geo-political issues in Africa have in common? Almost all of them are about political power sharing. This is partly due to the international...

Networks of corruption more complex than many think

POLITICAL INSIGHT

The conviction of former national police commissioner Jackie Selebi raises questions about elite networks and their impact on corruption.

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