Ndubuisi Christian Ani
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01 Dec 2025 / by Ndubuisi Christian Ani
Illegal tin mining erodes communities in Nigeria’s Plateau State

Government efforts to regulate the sector must involve communities in the design, implementation and monitoring processes to be effective.
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29 Oct 2025 / by Ndubuisi Christian Ani
Black Axe puzzle in South Africa: layers of criminal culpability

This paper explores Black Axe's role in South African crime, showing how autonomous individuals and syndicates utilise organisational networks rather than centralised direction.
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10 Jun 2025 / by Ndubuisi Christian Ani, Feyi Ogunade & Theodora Williams Anti
Ghana’s land guards: structure, profile and adaptation strategies

This paper discusses land guards as a distinct organised crime group and offers suggestions on addressing their criminal networks.
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08 May 2025 / by Ndubuisi Christian Ani
Sierra Leonean migrants carry the cost of their own trafficking

Job seekers in search of better lives in the Middle East are finding themselves entangled in exploitation and forced labour.
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08 May 2025 / by Ndubuisi Christian Ani
Les migrants de Sierra Leone paient le prix de leur propre exploitation

Des personnes sans emploi, en quête d’une vie meilleure au Moyen-Orient, se retrouvent piégées dans l’engrenage de l’exploitation et du travail forcé.
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24 Jan 2025 / by Ndubuisi Christian Ani, Feyi Ogunade & John Kamma
Youth gangs in Liberia: motives, structure and illicit economies

This paper focuses on youth gangs as a distinct criminal group involved in violent crimes in Monrovia’s urban centres.
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31 Oct 2024 / by Ndubuisi Christian Ani
Illegal mining digs up multiple problems in Ghana

The country’s government needs a multi-pronged approach to target the well-resourced sponsors and agents benefitting from illegal mining.
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31 Oct 2024 / by Ndubuisi Christian Ani
L’exploitation minière illégale cause de nombreux préjudices au Ghana

Le gouvernement ghanéen doit adopter une approche sur plusieurs fronts pour cibler les commanditaires et les agents très influents qui tirent parti de l’exploitation minière illégale.
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31 Jul 2024 / by Ndubuisi Christian Ani
Le laxisme des systèmes réglementaires expose le Nigeria aux systèmes de Ponzi

Les fraudeurs à la Ponzi profitent des lacunes de la réglementation et des insuffisances de son application, au grand dam des investisseurs nigérians.
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31 Jul 2024 / by Ndubuisi Christian Ani
Lax regulatory systems make Nigeria vulnerable to Ponzi schemes

Ponzi schemers consistently outsmart regulation loopholes and poor enforcement, leaving investors in Nigeria vulnerable.
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28 May 2024 / by Ndubuisi Christian Ani
JNIM cuts a path into southern Mali

Unregulated timber logging economy is at the centre of extremists’ governance strategies and infiltration into the region.
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28 May 2024 / by Ndubuisi Christian Ani
Le JNIM se fraye un chemin dans le sud du Mali

L’économie non réglementée de l’exploitation de bois est au cœur des stratégies de gouvernance et d’infiltration des extrémistes dans la région.

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