Africa

Africa’s tramadol epidemic, particularly prevalent in West and Central Africa, keeps gaining momentum – according to the UN...

European countries have recently resumed imports of phosphate — a key ingredient in fertilizer — from Syria. The trade...

Of all Latin American countries, Venezuela and Bolivia are the worst when it comes to tackling corruption and Guatemala,...

South Africa, the world’s largest chrome producer, loses around 10% of its annual production to illegal mining which has...

A subsidiary of the Swiss commodities giant Glencore admitted it paid millions of dollars in bribes to African officials to...

The police in southeast Nigeria rescued 35 girls aged 14 to 17 who were exploited for prostitution and ‘baby harvesting’ in...

Despite charges of illicitly trafficking over 30 tonnes of ivory for over a decade now, the alleged members of one of...

While small arms like pistols and assault weapons such as AR-15 dominate debates around gun control and the illegal firearms...

A new museum rose in the Eternal city to shine a light on a pervasive form of organized crime - the global illegal...

In an unprecedented move, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) asked its members to suspend...

The anti-corruption agency in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) said that it found severe irregularities in the...

For almost a decade now, South Africa’s construction sector has had to contend with organized crime groups that extort...