Fauna

High cost of East Africa's cattle rustling can no longer be ignored

Organised crime and capitalism have turned cattle rustling into a major threat.

Drug trafficking

Principaux itinéraires de la drogue en Afrique

Le continent est en train de passer d'une route de transit de la drogue illicite à une destination de la drogue.

Drug trafficking

Which African regions account for the highest use of illicit drugs?

Consumption is highest in West Africa followed by East and Southern Africa

Drug trafficking

Africa’s main drug routes

The continent is shifting from an illicit drug transit route to a drug destination

Mining and extractives

High cost of South Africa's illegal mining

Illegal mining costs the state billions of rand in lost tax revenue – losses linked organised to crime.

Drug trafficking

South Africa's soaring heroin trade

Infographic: A growing heroin industry is compounded by poor policy, with severe social, economic and political implications.

Drug trafficking

Africa’s east coast heroin route

Infographic : East Africa’s sea and land borders have increasingly turned into corridors for the trafficking of heroin.

Would Central Africa benefit from a single regional bloc?

Infographic: Merging Central Africa’s regional organisations would be complex.