Tag: transnational crime

Valued at around $23-billion, illegal wildlife trade is the fourth most profitable criminal trafficking enterprise worldwide, yet it's not given the prominence it deserves. But things are changing. In a first-of-its-kind meeting in SA, the financial sector, government and law enforcement met to discuss ways to combat the industrial theft of wildlife.

Extremisms in Africa challenges both the efficacy and wisdom of purely militarised responses to extremist movements, typified by the Global War on Terror, as well as the cursory replication of international counter-terrorism frameworks promulgated by the United Nations and European Union in Africa.