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At least 43 people have been murdered in suspected political assassinations in South Africa since the beginning of the year, as the country prepares for local government elections in November. By ...

Since the early 2000s, the central Sahel–Libya corridor has been an important cocaine trafficking route linking West Africa and North Africa with European consumption markets. Although most cocaine ...

In 2017, the total amount of opium produced globally was estimated at 10 500 tonnes, 9 000 tonnes (86%) of which came from Afghanistan. In 2018, 9.9 tonnes of heroin were seized in European Union ...

Over the past five years, the Central African Republic (CAR) has become a hub in which high ranking political and military figures, co-opted criminal actors and transnational organized crime groups ...

Over the course of two days in mid-April, Greek authorities rescued more than 300 migrants off the coast of Crete, highlighting the growing resurgence of a long-dormant smuggling corridor between ...

Scams and fraud have undergone a profound evolution in recent decades, becoming one of the most sophisticated, pervasive and lucrative forms of organized crime globally. According to the Global ...

Según el Índice de Crimen Organizado 2021, el continente americano es el tercero con mayores niveles de criminalidad (sólo después de Asia y África). Dentro del continente, Centroamérica y Sudamérica ...

In January 2025, Goma fell to the M23 rebel group, marking a brutal turning point in the protracted conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Goma, the capital of North Kivu province ...