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Mapping Violence and Organized Crime in Cameroon

Criminal networks, conflict dynamics and security implications in a context of armed conflict and violent extremism

Jun 2026
by Aïcha Pemboura, Raoul Sumo Tayo - ISS
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Entrepreneurs of Insecurity

Kidnapping for ransom in the Chad-CAR-Cameroon borderlands

May 2026
by Titilope F Ajayi - ISS
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Criminal convergence on Cameroon's coast

Financing conflict and sustaining violence in the Gulf of Guinea

Dec 2025
by Raoul Sumo Tayo - ISS
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Sudan's storm of Typhon

RSF's rise and the chaos economy

Nov 2025
by J.R. Mailey - GI-TOC
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Cattle rustling in the border regions of Cameroon and Chad

Mar 2025
by Oluwole Ojewale, Raoul Sumo Tayo - ISS
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The tri-border tangle

Arms trafficking, crime and violence in the borderlands of Chad, Cameroon and Central African Republic

Jan 2024
by Eleanor Beevor, Alexandre Bish - GI-TOC
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The kidnapping business

Criminality in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo

May 2023
by Justin Mwetaminwa, Marc-André Lagrange, Thierry Vircoulon - GI-TOC
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Criminals or vigilantes?

The Kuluna gangs of the Democratic Republic of Congo

Jun 2021
by Marc-André Lagrange, Thierry Vircoulon - GI-TOC
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