Growing populations, established criminal networks and thriving gangs make these cities the perfect market for smugglers.
With multiple violent conflicts, banditry and porous borders that enable weapons smuggling, gun liberalisation could backfire.
Solid minerals are critical national assets – and should be prioritised like the country’s oil and gas exploration.
Caution is crucial in airstrikes to prevent tragic accidents like the recent bombing in Kaduna State.
In a strategy honed by Boko Haram, bandits are enlisting women for arms trafficking in Nigeria’s north-west.
International support is needed to sanction businesses complicit in timber trafficking from the Central African Republic.
This study explores the complex relationships between urbanisation and transnational organised crime.
Urban spaces have emerged as the new frontier for insecurity in West Africa, with urbanisation trends shaping criminality dynamics in the region.
Organised criminal networks that previously traded mostly with African elephant ivory are turning to pangolins.
Could artisanal fishers help prevent illegal fishing and the destruction of the valuable shark population?
The One Forest Summit delivered more pledges, but accelerated action is vital to stop illegal logging and deforestation.
A radical departure from existing policy is needed to enhance safety, but candidates’ proposed reforms miss the mark.
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