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📣 Join us for "The Russo-Ukrainian war and the illegal arms trade" with @MarkGaleotti, @scrawnya, @Tuesdayjaded and Fedir Sydoruk ⬇️
gitoc.heysummit.com/talks/russia-u… Follow the conversation on Youtube 👇

🌳 The W, Arly and Pendjari national parks, or the WAP complex, is an area of natural reserves.

Its location along multiple borders and cover by forests have made it a critical space for non-state armed groups feeding political instability in the Sahel.
globalinitiative.net/analysis/armed… 🇧🇯 There has been a sharp rise in violent attacks in the areas skirting the WAP complex in #Benin since late 2021.

🔴 The areas have become important for the region’s two main armed groups - Jama’at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin (#JNIM) and Islamic State Sahel Province (#ISSP).

🇸🇴 The #Somali Islamist group, #alShabaab, is the ‘largest, wealthiest and most deadly’ al-Qaeda affiliate remaining in the world.

🔴 Despite losing territory since 2011, the group has remained dominant, exerting control and power far beyond areas it physically controls. 💰 #AlShabaab’s continued resilience can largely be attributed to their checkpoint #taxation apparatus it has established throughout southern #Somalia.

The group categorizes its #tax system into four streams:
🚚 Transit
📦 Goods
🌾 Agricultural produce
🐐 Livestock

🔴Live at the @CCPCJ for the launch or our new report on corruption and organized crime. With
@DrJayAlbanese @Gladwellotienom @Ugi_Zvekic
@LuciaDammert @ItalyUN_Vienna @Crim_WO_Borders
@ACJS_National We are presenting the findings of our latest report which analyses the threat of organized and corruption.

Read it here⤵️
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1/ “Through the GI-TOC’S Resilience Fund’s work, it has become increasingly clear, across jurisdictions and cultures, that women are repeatedly at the forefront of building community resilience to organized crime”
#GIResilience
⬇️ 2/ Photo below shows Community members protest against the disappearance of their loved ones in a march organized by @Sabuesosguerre2 a #GIResilience Fund beneficiary, in Culiacán, Mexico, September 2020🇲🇽

🔴Live at the @CCPCJ we are talking gender and organized crime with @theicclr @farfan_cc
@Lucia_Bird_Ruiz @ljcampuzano .@Lucia_Bird_Ruiz presenting the findings of GI-TOC's latest report on gender and resilience.

🔴 We are live now at the @CCPCJ with @livia_wagner79 @KAmerhauser presenting our findings on preventing vulnerability of and strengthening policy responses for commercial sexual exploitation of children

@UKMissionVienna @Astra_Beograd Our new report provides an assessment of commercial sexual exploitation of children and child protection responses in the Western Balkans

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📢Last chance to sign up for our webinar on changing human smuggling and trafficking dynamics in North Africa and the Sahel in 2019 and 2020

🗓️11 am CET Today⤵️
bit.ly/33Q8t0b 🔴Live now
Watch here⤵️
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🇩🇿 How are Algerian authorities managing migration flows along the borders with Niger and Mali?

This report by @raouf_far looks at the frameworks of illicit economies in the Sahara, #Algeria’s domestic politics, and the regional geopolitical environment.
globalinitiative.net/analysis/alger… 2/ Since 2015, #Algeria has expelled or repatriated an unprecedented number of migrants to #Niger and to a lesser extent to #Mali.

⚠️Grave concerns over human rights violations have been expressed.

1/Today is International Anti-Corruption Day. With the second wave of the pandemic in full force, this year has highlighted the need to fight corruption.
Here's why👇
#UnitedAgainstCorruption 2/Organized criminal networks are positioning themselves to capture state institutions and contracts – enriching themselves at the expense of the public.
We documented this both in our #Covid Crime Watch newsletter and podcast series.
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1/📰 🎉Today is The World Press Freedom Conference #WPFC2020.

👉60 countries will gather to will endorse a new commitment to protect journalists’ safety.

🔴625 journalists over the past 20 years have been murdered for their reporting and investigations into organized crime. 2/👉Throughout our #AssassinationWitness campaign we have profiled journalists across the world who have been brutally murdered for reporting the truth and fighting organized crime.

Ján Kuciak, Daphne Caruna Galizia are two examples

See more⤵️
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1/ 1000 days from #MarielleFranco’s death have passed and the question remains: who ordered the killing of Marielle Franco?
🔴On the 14th of March 2018, Franco and her driver Anderson Gomes were brutally murdered by two gunmen who fired multiple shots at her vehicle.
⏬ 2/ 🇧🇷 #MarielleFranco was a Brazilian human rights activist and a city council member in Rio de Janeiro.

As a bisexual Afro-Brazilian woman raised in a slum, Franco incarnated several of Brazil’s most vulnerable and marginalized demographics.

📒 In the latest issue of our East and Southern Africa Risk Bulletin, our lead story looks at the new wave of violence in #Zimbabwe’s #goldmining sector. 🇿🇼⛏️
⏬ 🗺️ The map below shows incidents reported Nov 2019-Jan 2020 in the Zimbabwean media over the past few months, but the real number of dead and injured is likely to be higher:
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