Racketeering - GITOC | Central Africa - Observatory

Racketeering

Researching and investigating how racketeering and extortion fuel instability and violence in Central Africa.

Highlights

Goma, one year on: Illicit profits, failed peace

Any durable approach to ending the DRC conflict must confront the illicit economies sustaining the war

26 Jan 2026
by Zobel Behalal (GI-TOC)

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Soft power: missing element in the Chad-Cameroon border defence pact?

25 Nov 2025
by Mugah Michael Sitawa - ISS

News Card

Sudan's civil war reignites the illicit car trade into Chad

08 Oct 2025
by Oluwole Ojewale - ISS

Publications

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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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Cattle rustling in the border regions of Cameroon and Chad

Mar 2025
by Oluwole Ojewale, Raoul Sumo Tayo - ISS

Other Strategic Areas

Financial Crimes

Human Trafficking