Crime Types

PAAI research covers the full spectrum of threats to peace in Africa. Please select a country below to access our evidence-based research.

Organised crime types Trade and counterfeit goods Cross-border smuggling Mafia-style crimes Fauna Mining and extractives Maritime Emerging crimes Human trafficking Human smuggling Drug trafficking Cybercrime Flora IFFs and money laundering Arms trafficking
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Peace & Security
Whose Suffering Counts? Media Attention, Moral Priorities, and Africa's Forgotten Wars

As global attention focuses on wars in the Middle East, Ukraine and Gaza, devastating conflicts in Sudan, Ethiopia and the DRC remain dangerously overlooked despite their immense human cost.
Geopolitics & Multilateralism
The World's Blind Spot: Africa's Wars and the Politics of Global Attention

As wars in Iran, Ukraine and Gaza dominate the world's front pages, Sudan has become the largest humanitarian crisis on earth — 33.7 million people in need — while Africa's wars draw a fraction of the attention their human toll demands. What is to be done?
African Union
Is Africa's premier continental organization, the African Union, fit for purpose?

Thirty years after the genocide against the Tutsi, escalating wars, civilian deaths and displacement are exposing the African Union’s struggle to uphold “never again” amid a rapidly changing global order.
Peace & Security
A Peace Agreement in Terminal Crisis: What Is at Stake?

The African Union’s overlapping Horn of Africa appointments raise urgent questions as Ethiopia and Tigray face renewed conflict amid the continued failure to implement the Pretoria Agreement.