Targeted killings and professional hitmen are in high demand in South Africa, according to a Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC) report, which examines how violence has festered as a monetizable commodity over the past two decades.

Clyde Mbisi, a Swazi traditional leader who faced charges related to rhino poaching and was to appear in court in April, was shot dead by unknown attackers, said astatement by the South African Police Service.

The U.N. human rights office in Hondurascondemned the killing of a prominent peasant defender and his son in the violent province of Colón on Sunday, demandinga "prompt, impartial and exhaustive investigation" into the murder.

Amayoral candidate was shot dead just hours before polls opened on Sunday, becoming the second candidate assassinated in an election marred by more than a dozen attacks and threats against political candidates and their associates.

Four suspects who were detained in Haiti for their alleged involvement in a plot to assassinate former President Jovenel Moïse in July 2021, have been transferred to the U.S. to face criminal charges in the Southern District of Florida, a U.S. Attorney’s statementsaid on Tuesday.

Colombia arrested two men who confessed they planned and paid for last year’s murder of an anti-mafia prosecutor because he was investigating their boss and his brother.

Venezuela’s authorities said they arrested two men believed to be involved in the assassination of Paraguayan anti-mafia prosecutor Marcelo Pecci who was shot in May on a beach in Colombia where he was honeymooning with his new wife.

Russia evacuated from the Central African Republic a diplomat who was severely injured in an assassination attempt that has been interpreted as part of a power struggle between Russia and France over influence in Africa.

Turkish police said they detained 12 people in Istanbul, including the suspected killer of Montenegro’sŠkaljari clan boss,Jovan Vukotić.

Ecuadorian officials accused two suspects on Tuesday for their alleged involvement in the killing of a prosecutor who was investigating cases of violence and drug trafficking in the country.

Gunfire broke out in the Haitian capital of Port-Au-Prince Wednesday evening as Haitian police took on what they said were “mercenaries” suspected of assassinating the country’s president earlier that day. 

After a short but dramatic chase, Ukrainian authorities arrested on Wednesday four men for having tried to kill the alleged boss of a Montenegrin criminal clan that has been involved in a bloody war with a rival gang over control of cocaine smuggling from South America.

The Dutch government is looking to hire 445 more officers for a specialized narcotics unit, as the fallout continues from the assassination of a criminal defense lawyer.

South African politicians have claimed that a local councillor, gunned down just weeks after receiving a death threat, was killed for her "fight against corruption", local media reported Tuesday.

Authorities in Serbia and Montenegro have in the past five years solved only four out of 83 murders that appear to be gang-related, Serbia’s Crime and Corruption Reporting Network, KRIK, said Monday.

Mexican officials said Monday they found at the bottom of a ravine the charred remains of journalist Salvador Adame, who was missing since he was kidnapped six weeks ago.

An Iranian-born businessman sentenced in absentia for spreading "propaganda" against the country’s Islamic government was shot dead in Istanbul on Saturday, media reported.

Miroslava Breach, 58, a Mexican journalist who specialized in organized crime and corruption, was shot eight times in her car Thursday morning as she pulled out of her drive in state capital Chihuahua to take her son to school.

The Montenegrin government decided to issue a reward for information on the identity of those behind the 2004 murder of Dusko Jovanovic, the celebrated founder and chief editor of Dan, Montenegro's highest-circulation daily newspaper.

This week, OCCRP partner re:Baltica published a series of investigations into the business dealings of Uzbekistan’s elite in Latvia with stories of fraud, bribery and attempted assassination.