ISS Today: The Gambia redoubles
efforts to scupper maritime drug
trafficking

By teaming up with the EU’s Seaport Cooperation Project,
can the country disrupt the rising cocaine trade?

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ISS Live: Bad pharma – medicine
trafficking in West Africa

This seminar launches new research on the
illicit trade in medical products, focusing
on Burkina Faso and Guinea.

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Publication: Trafficking illicit medical
products in Burkina Faso and Guinea

To shrink the market for illicit medical products, issues driving
their demand must be addressed.

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ISS Clips: Women increasingly turn
to bandit-linked arms trafficking
in Nigeria

Bandits are enlisting women for their criminal activities
by copying a strategy perfected by Boko Haram in
Nigeria’s north-east.

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Improving human security
in Africa: ISS Annual Review

ISS examined Africa’s place in the world and how
shifting geopolitics will impact the continent.

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Fortress South Africa – open to the highest bidder

Using billions in public funds for private border security could be the latest chapter in government’s xenophobic fixation.
Can national dialogue settle Kenya’s recurring post-election instability?
Unlike previous arrangements, the dialogue committee’s legal mandate could pave the way to political and economic stability.
Ethiopia’s National Dialogue needs greater credibility and inclusivity
The dialogue’s first phase is proceeding without opposition, but the format is unlikely to achieve ‘national consensus’.
Libya’s floods: a climate change and governance tragedy

The Derna disaster shows the lethal effect of a convergence between climate, governance and security threats.
Côte d’Ivoire must cut ties between terrorists and illicit markets
The current calm in the north provides a window to dismantle extremists’ sources of finance, supplies and recruits.
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