Researching and investigating how racketeering and extortion fuel instability and violence in Central Africa.
25 Nov 2025 by Mugah Michael Sitawa - ISS
08 Oct 2025 by Oluwole Ojewale - ISS
Violence for sale
The outsourcing of security in the M23 conflict in the DRC
Mapping Violence and Organized Crime in Cameroon
Criminal networks, conflict dynamics and security implications in a context of armed conflict and violent extremism
Entrepreneurs of Insecurity
Kidnapping for ransom in the Chad-CAR-Cameroon borderlands
Criminal convergence on Cameroon's coast
Financing conflict and sustaining violence in the Gulf of Guinea
Sudan's storm of Typhon
RSF's rise and the chaos economy
Cattle rustling in the border regions of Cameroon and Chad
The tri-border tangle
Arms trafficking, crime and violence in the borderlands of Chad, Cameroon and Central African Republic
The kidnapping business
Criminality in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo