Researching and investigating how racketeering and extortion fuel instability and violence in Central Africa.
Any durable approach to ending the DRC conflict must confront the illicit economies sustaining the war
26 Jan 2026 by Zobel Behalal - GI-TOC
25 Nov 2025 by Mugah Michael Sitawa - ISS
Violence for sale
The outsourcing of security in the M23 conflict in the DRC
Sudan's storm of Typhon
RSF's rise and the chaos economy
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
Criminals or vigilantes?
The Kuluna gangs of the Democratic Republic of Congo
A criminal state
Understanding and countering institutionalized corruption and violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo