A profile of crime markets in Dakar
This paper profiles criminal markets currently active in Dakar and its suburbs.
Several criminal markets – ranging from drug trafficking to human trafficking, piracy and counterfeiting, trafficking of pharmaceuticals, cybercrime and money laundering – can be found in Dakar, Senegal. This paper profiles criminal markets currently active in the city and its suburbs, analysing their structures, operations and transnational dimensions. The expansion criminal markets is a matter of considerable concern for West Africa’s economic and social development. In every case, ‘regardless of the criminal market … the common denominator is always exploitation for profit. This exploitation ultimately affects the entire country: its people and institutions; its economic prosperity; and its social fabric’.
About the author
Ismaïla Diallo, a tax and properties inspector, has been working for the public administration of Senegal since 2005. He led the Research Bureau of the General Tax Administration from 2009 to 2014, before being appointed as Technical Adviser at the Ministry of Economy and Finance. Ismaïla is pursuing a joint PhD programme in economics from the University of Auvergne and the Centre for Studies and Research on International Development in France.
